AnimeFEST! 2002 in conjunction with Nemesis Records is excited to bring you one of the hottest rising stars on the Asian American charts.

Kristine will be opening our concert on Saturday August 31st and have press interviews, panels and autograph session all throughout the convention.

Hailing from Vancouver, Canada by way of Brisbane, Australia, Scott started acting at the age of three and hasn't (his mom would say) stopped since. Spanning more than a decade, and including over seventy series, Scott's voice career began with The New Adventures of He-Man way Back in (gasp!)1989. He is perhaps best known currently as Duo Maxwell in Gundam Wing, Piccolo (the first) in Dragonball Z, Dinobot, Rattrap, Waspinator, and Silverbolt in BeastWars, and Wolverine in the new WB series X-Men Evolution. Among his other voice credits are Reboot, Monster Rancher, Mummies Alive, Ranma 1/2, Kong, The Vision of Escaflowne, Megaman, WarPlanets, Weird-Oh's, Molly O, Conan the Adventurer, Extreme Dinosaurs, DragonTales, D'Myna Leagues, Aagh it's the Mister Hell Show, Double Dragon, Street Fighter, and GI Joe.

Equally successful in film and television, Scott has starred in the feature films Sleeping with Strangers and Sleeping Dogs and guest starred on numerous television series and features, including; Highlander, The Outer Limits, Beyond Belief, Beggars and Choosers, and Disney's Ladies and the Champ, to name a few.

Scott loves cartoons most of all because, Hey, it's indoor work with no heavy lifting.

Monica lives in Houston and works as a voice acrtess for ADV Films. She has played Miharu in Gasaraki, Natsume in Generation Gawl, Gin Fizz in Sorcerer on the Rocks, Izumi in Princess Nine, Saki in Steel Angel Kurumi, Mikako in Nadesico, Hyatt in Excel Saga, and Nozomi in Chance Pop Sessions. This will be Monica's first time at AnimeFEST!

Canadian voice actor who did the voices, for the North American releases, of Van Fanel in Escaflowne, Trowa Barton in Gundam Wing, Goku in Dragonball Z #144, and Woody in First Gundam. He has also done voices for many non-anime shows including "Jimmy Wu" in ActionMan, "Cyclops" in X-Men: Evolution, and four voices from Jackie Chan - Stuntmaster.

Stephanie is currently the voice of Boy Goku and Boy Gohan in the outrageously popular television series, Dragonball and Dragonball Z. Working with the production company FUNimation since 1999, she's also contributed voices to other characters, including East Kai and Baby Trunks.

Best known as the voice of teenage Gohan on Dragonball Z, he has also been a regular cast member on all of Funimation's anime productions since the summer of 2000. This included playing Sgt. Robert Bradley in Blue Gender, Ox King in Dragonball, Okubo in Yu Yu Hakusho, Butrakari in Lupin III , and numerous minor supporting roles. Kyle is very interactive with fans through his successful website (average 15,000 hits daily) which focuses on voice acting, Funimation, anime, toys, video games, movies, and building an online community www.kylehebert.com. This is Kyle's first AnimeFEST! appearance.

Michael Coleman jumped into the voice scene last year and has become one of the fastest rising voices in the game. In his first year as a VA Michael booked guest appearances voicing various supporting characters in episodes of Ranma ½, Cardcaptors and continues to voice the characters "Idasa & Mokki" for Dragonball Z. He then voiced a new cartoon pilot with fellow VA Kirby Morrow, Flippo and the Sea Nymphs , where Michael and Kirby supplied the voices for all of the characters in the show! Michael also landed the role of "Sunspot" aka "Roberto De Costa" a new recruit in the WB’s X-Men: Evolution at the end of season II and has continued this year in episodes for season III. Michael also made a guest appearance in an episode of the animated series Mary-Kate & Ashley and performed in the animated feature Ark starring many of today’s top anime stars and James Woods. Michael was cast as the new "Chibodee Crocket" aka "Gundam America" in the new G Gundam series, but unfortunately was unable to perform the role as the production moved out of town when the producers and the union could not reach an amicable agreement. Recently Michael has worked on the new anime series Project Arms and more episodes DBZ and looks forward to the many new projects coming up this year!

Christopher Patton has been acting professionally for the past ten years in his hometown of Houston, finding great satisfaction on almost every major stage in the Houston and surrounding areas. In '98 he began his voice acting career by answering a "cattle call" ad in the Houston Press for a company called ADV Films. Things quickly got exciting and by '99 and 2000, Christopher had landed his two biggest roles with ADV to date, Yushiro Gowa in Gasaraki and Yu Ominae in Spriggan. He also played Daley Wong in BGC 2040, Seishiro Natsume in Princess Nine , and a character in the soon-to-be-released Chance Pop Sessions . Other credits with ADV include one-shots and additional voice work on Sin:The Movie, Masters of Mosquiton , Generator Gawl , Sorcerer Hunters , Original Dirty Pair , Martian Successor Nadesico, and more. Christopher has developed a great fondness for the genre, and looks forward to an ever- growing career in this most exciting of fields.

Scott Frazier learned about the animation production process by working at various small production companies and attending International Animation Institute in Japan. Eventually he taught animation production techniques throughout Asia. Scott then moved on to be a co-founder of Genesis Digital Publishing and to work as both a president and producer for Production I.G. USA . He has now moved back to the United States but continues to travel throughout Asia and the US teaching animation techniques and speaking at conventions.

Bruce Lewis is a comics artist, writer, and pop culture enthusiast. He wrote and drew the Robotech: Invid War Aftermath, Robotech: Hohsq's Story, and Robotech Aftermath: Megaroad series for Malibu Comics and Academy Comics, and, as a part of Studio Go!, edited, wrote and illustrated Star Blazers: The Magazine of Space Battleship Yamato for Voyager Entertainment's Argo Press imprint. He also wrote and illustrated the four-issue Gall Force: Eternal Story miniseries for CPM Manga, and has colored, lettered, and produced many more comics titles.

Krista is a prolific Fan Fiction author and respected member of the FanFic Mailing List (FFML). She's also written 23 chapters of an ongoing Ranma 1/2 FanFic series called "Hearts of Ice" which has won several accolades. More recently she has written fan-fic of Detective Conan, Inu-Yasha, Gundam Wing, and many other series.

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Over the last several years, the Dallas "Kiyari" Daiko Group has become well known in the Dallas and Fort Worth areas and the ensemble is now performing by invitation for civic organizations, schools and businesses. The reaction from the audience has been overwhelmigly enthusiastic. Each member of Kiyari is pleased to be able to share Japanese Culture with the communities of North and Central Texas through the exciting musical medium of the Taiko beat.

They will be performing during our Opening Ceremonies.