Omni Productions, LLC Announces First Round of Guests/New Venue

Orlando, FL, September 15, 2014 – Omni Productions, LLC has announced that the first round of guests for OMNI EXPO includes a large number of voice talent featured in the English dub of the popular anime series Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan). Expected to appear are voice actress Trina Nishimura (Mikasa Ackerman), voice actor Josh Grell (Armin Arlert), voice actor Matthew Mercer (Levi), voice actress Lauren Landa (Annie Leonhardt), voice actress Elizabeth Maxwell (Ymir), voice actress Bryn Apprill (Christa Lenz), voice actress Ashly Burch (Sasha Braus), voice actor Clifford Chapin (Connie Springer), voice actress Jessica Calvello (Zoe Hange), voice actor/Director Mike McFarland (Jean Kirstein), voice actor Austin Tindle (Marco Bott), and voice actor David Wald (Hannes).
OMNI EXPO is scheduled for May 22-24, 2015 at the Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando, Florida. Our new venue features approximately 1900 parking spaces available at $10 per day for everyone attending, free WiFi throughout the entire convention space, and multiple food choices in the area. The room rate is set at $115/night.
Regular and VIP Weekend Passes are currently available online. Pre-register now and save money on the at-door price of $55.

Brandishing her voice just as Mikasa wields her blade, Trina Nishimura has sliced her way through the anime world over the past few years, primarily working with FUNimation Entertainment. From meager beginnings as the little hungry girl Namiko in Desert Punk to her much anticipated and lauded appearance as Mikasa Ackerman in Attack on Titan, Nishimura's agile voice has brought her critical acclaim, and unprecedented fan support.
Fans will recall Trina's many dutiful portrayals in such works as Claymore (Flora and Sophia), Kenichi the Mightiest Disciple (Shigure Kosaka), School Rumble and Yurippe School Rumble: 2nd Semester (Akira Takano), Baccano! (Rachel), Sgt Frog (Ghost Girl), and the ever popular Witchblade (Shiore Tsuzuki) to name a few. More recent work includes Luna in Cashern Sins, Mizune in Soul Eater, Francesca Lucchini in Strike Witches, Lan Fan in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Sohara in Heaven's Lost Property, Aiko Kudo in Baka and Test, Mari Makinami Illustrious in Evangelion 2.22 & 3.33, Kurisu Makise in Steins;Gate, and Mamitas in Space Dandy.
Trina is that rare breed of performer who not only embodies her characters, but also embraces her fans, taking time to make appearances across the US and Canada. Though her voice and talents have taken her and her characters to every corner of the globe, her heart will always belong to Texas and Taco Villa.

A native Texan and avid anime fan, Josh Grell has been working in voice work for over 10 years. After starting with ADV Films in January 2004, Josh was quickly bombarded with tons of in-booth experience on a wide range of shows, including Wedding Peach, Steam Detectives, 009-1, and the legendary Gatchaman. He began working for FUNimation Entertainment in 2006. Since then, he has starred in numerous titles, his most famous being Kenichi in Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple. Other roles include Armin in Attack on Titan, Kyohei in the Wallflower, Kouichi in Linebarrles of Iron, Yuki in Future Diary, Itsuki in Initial D, and Kuranosuke in Princess Jellyfish. More recent roles include Chow from Starship Troopers: Invasion, Nicky in Mass Effect: Paragon Lost, Kazuya Aoi in Freezing, Yuji Sakai in Shakugan no Shana, Akihisa Yoshii in Baka and Test, and Komatsu in Toriko. Aside from anime, Josh has lent his voice to a number of video games, including Sima Shi in Dynasty Warriors 7, Xbalanque in Smite, Dave in Borderlands 2, and the voice of the "energetic" custom character in Dragonball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi. Josh is represented by The Mary Collins Agency.

Matthew Mercer is a professional actor, writer, and film maker based out of Los Angeles, California. Originally born in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, Matthew moved with his family to Southern California at the age of 8 and hasn't looked back. Being predominantly raised on cartoons and video games, his fascination with character voices and the performing arts continued throughout his youth into his high school years, where he became heavily involved in the theater program. Continuing from there to community theater, branching into creative writing, and eventually landing his first voice over and film roles, Matthew had finally found his calling.
Matthew has since lent his talents to many animated shows, films, commercials, and video games featuring his wide vocal range and warm speaking quality across a spectrum of characters. He has also begun a successful foray into film making, creating, producing, and directing his own New Media projects through Over The Canyon Productions and Walk of Shame Productions.
Matthew has been a guest at many conventions and events the world over, MCing and holding panels on Voice Over across North America and the United Kingdom, including Anime Expo, Anime Matsuri, Ikkicon, Mikomicon, and Ayacon UK. He enjoys imparting his own personal experiences, knowledge, and silly stories on any audience willing (or otherwise) to endure his infernal rambling. In his spare time, Matthew is a self-professed Geek, enjoying many video games, films, and the occasional table-top role playing game.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Lauren Landa first began acting at the age of 11 in a stage production of Annie and continued with shows including Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, Bye Bye Birdie, and Comic Potential. Additionally, she served as Assistant Director for stage productions such as Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, Batboy the Musical, and the Greek comedy Lysistrata.
Within that world behind the mic, she is most known for roles such as the ninja beauty, Kasumi in Dead or Alive 5; the sexy Litchi Faye Ling in the popular fighting games BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger and the sequels BlazBlue: Continuum Shift, Continuum Shift Extend, and Chrono Phantasma; the badass Kyoko Sakura in Madoka Magica; the enthusiastic Yan Leixia in Soul Calibur V; the deadly Little Queen in Tales of Graces; the valley girl racer in pink, Boiboi in Redline; the adorable zombie Squigly in Skullgirls; kind hearted Leia in Tales of Xillia; the innocent Chubo Sonken in Ikki Tousen: Great Guardians; and most recently, the quiet and even more badass Annie Leonhardt in the hit anime series Attack on Titan.
She has had several roles in anime and video games such as Leeza, (Blazing Souls Accelate), Arf and Chrono Harlaown (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha/ A's), Kirche Van Zerbst, (Familiar Of Zero) Aegil, Cotton, and Sasha (Rondo of Swords), Lila (Summon Night Twin Age), Rina (Luminous Arc 2), Yoko (Sakichi Satô's Tokyo Zombie), Sy-Fy channel's anime addition (Monster) and more!

Elizabeth Maxwell is an accomplished Austin-based actress and life-long lover of all things geek, so when she began a career in voice over and found herself working in anime and video games, it seemed a match made in heaven!
Some of her recent credits include Attack on Titan (Ymir) and such games as Strife (Tinder), Star Citizen (the Anvil Aerospace AI), and Wizard 101 (Zaltanna the MirrorMask). You can find her voice AND face on such TV shows as Criminal Minds, From Dusk Till Dawn, and Lost Tapes and in the big screen psychological thriller A Perfect Getaway. She recently finished filming the starring role in the indie thriller The Focus Puller, set to hit the festival circuit and your Netflix queue in 2015.
Elizabeth is currently working on several projects, including an upcoming FUNimation title and a highly anticipated video game release, but if she told you any more, she'd have to kill you. And frankly, she'd rather shake your hand at OMNI EXPO instead. But stay tuned on Facebook or Twitter (@AboutElizabethM), and she'll leak updates when she can!

Bryn Apprill is a relatively new member of the voice acting community, having started her work with FUNimation Entertainment beginning in the summer of 2013. Though she's only been recording for a short while, she has completely fallen in love with voice work and the people she has been lucky enough to work with. Her credits include Fairy Tail (Meldy), Red Data Girl (Izumiko Suzuhara), Date A Live (Kotori Itsuka), and Attack on Titan (Christa Lenz).
Bryn feels incredibly blessed to have been given the opportunity to work with FUNimation. She is thrilled to start establishing her career in voice acting; something she loves so much! Bryn intends to continue her work in voice acting as well as the stage as she pursues her college degree in Musical Theater and Acting.
A Texas native, Bryn loves to spend her free time at Therapeutic Horsemanship Ranches working with special needs children and teens whenever possible. Bryn also enjoys live theater and has recently performed roles in Sweeney Todd (Johanna), Les Miserable (Cosette), and The Elephant Man (Mrs. Kendall).
Bryn is so excited to be a part of OMNI EXPO for 2015 and can't wait to see all of her fans there. She hopes you will come and meet her!

Ashly Burch is a voice actor, writer, and raps about representation and issues of gender and identity in the games industry. Well, she doesn't actually rap, she just speaks about it. She thought saying the word "rap" would make her culturally relevant. She realizes she's failing.
Ashly is best known as the star, writer and co-creator for the web series "Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'?" and as the voice of Tiny Tina in Borderlands 2. She is also the voice of Sasha Braus in Attack on Titan. You can (or will soon be able to) hear her in these other fine pieces of entertainment: Adventure Time, Bee and Puppy Cat, Awesomenauts, Chainsaw Richard, Saints Row 4, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Guided Fate Paradox, Children of Liberty, and Seedlings. You can see her flail about on screen in Baked Goods, Board With Life, and School of Thrones.

Clifford Chapin is a voice actor whose breakout role was Keita Tsuwabuki in Good Luck Girl! Binbogami-Ga! Since then, he has gone on to voice characters across the many anime worlds, including Kaito Yashio in the third installment of the Science Adventure series Robotics;Notes, and Conny Springer in Attack on Titan. Outside of his voice acting work, Clifford spends his time gaming and telling (really bad) jokes on the internet. He's looking forward to attending OMNI EXPO and hopes to have a great time with all of you. You can keep up with all of Clifford's voice acting and bad comedy antics by following him on Twitter (@CliffordChapin) and liking his Clifford Chapin (Voice Actor) page on Facebook.

Jessica Calvello started dubbing in 1995 with ADV Films, with her first project being 3 HUGE LINES in Evangelion. Some more of her earlier work includes Excel Excel (Excel Saga, V1-3), Fam (Ruin Explorers), Mink (Dragonhalf), Celcia (Those Who Hunt Elves, S1), Yuri (Dirty Pair, OAV 1-5), Karin Aoi (DNA2), Drona (Magical DoReMi), Tsukino (Kare Kano), Comic Party (Eimi), Nanael (Queensblade), Kay the Raichu Trainer (Pokemon), Donna (Virus Buster Serge), Meliroon (Slayers: the Motion Picture), Moto and Poom Poom (Boogie Pop Phantom), and The Lovely Warrior, Honey Kisaragi (New Cutey Honey), in which she was personally cast by Go Nagai for the English dub.
More recent roles include Hange Zoe (Attack On Titan), Kanako (Maria Holic), Saori (Girls und Panzer), Eclair (Fairy Tail the Movie: Phoenix Priestess), Ekitoku Chouhi (Ikki Tousen), and Rip Van Winkle in Team Four Star's Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, Ep. 4.
Jessica is also currently working with the talented team over at Cyanide & Happiness! They probably regret this, but in the meantime, go to their YouTube channel to hear her in the upcoming shorts The Weatherman, Butterfly, God and Satan, and Teddy Bear Strip Club (to name a few!)
She's worked for FUNimation, ADV Films, Sentai Filmworks, New Generation Pictures, 4Kids Entertainment, DuArt, Headline Studios, Central Park Media, The Right Stuf, International, Media Blasters, and more!
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Mike McFarland got his start in anime as one of the first voice actors in Texas to be hired by FUNimation Entertainment and has since moved on to become a Director, Script Writer, and Line Producer for numerous anime series. Notable roles include Master Roshi and Yajirobe in Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, Baby and Baby-Vegeta in Dragon Ball GT, Jean Kirstein in Attack on Titan, Goemon in Lupin The Third (Movie Specials), Ritsu Sohma in Fruits Basket, Lt. Jean Havoc in Fullmetal Alchemist, Cain in Trinity Blood, Buggy the Clown in One Piece, “Ranka” Fujioka in Ouran High School Host Club, Tybalt in Romeo x Juliet, Leo in Burst Angel, and Estonia in Hetalia, as well as various roles in Yu Yu Hakusho, Nerima Daikon Brothers, Kodocha, Desert Punk, Black Cat, Kiddy Grade, Shin Chan, Space Dandy, and many others.
As an ADR/Voice Director, Mike has worked on such series and films as Fullmetal Alchemist, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Dragon Ball Z, Vexille, Wolf Children, Summer Wars, Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino, Yu Yu Hakusho, Mushi-Shi, Case Closed, Dragon Ball, Eden of the East, Trinity Blood, Evangelion: 1.11, 2.22, and 3.33, and One Piece (currently airing on Toonami) and was recently announced as the ADR/Voice Director for the highly anticipated Attack on Titan. ADR Scriptwriting credits include Fullmetal Alchemist, Kodocha, Trinity Blood, Solty Rei, Mushi-Shi, One Piece, and the uncut versions of Dragon Ball Z.
Video game credits include work on Borderlands 2, The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, Halo Wars, Stuntman: Ignition, Aeon Flux, Bloodrayne 2, Roadkill, Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley, numerous Dragon Ball Z titles, as well as the role of Paul Phoenix in Street Fighter X Tekken.
Mike is also an accomplished improv comedian, musician, and has appeared in numerous commercials and independent films, including The Rage Within, House Of The Generals, Placebo, and the award-winning Shtickmen. For more information, check out his web site at www.mikemcfarland.com, “like” his fan page on Facebook, or follow him on Twitter @MikeMcFarlandVA.

Austin Tindle is a writer and actor living in Dallas, Texas. He was born in Orlando, Florida, raised in Austin, Texas, and attended UTD on academic scholarship, where he almost became an Electrical Engineer. At 19, he was cast as Romeo and changed majors the same day. You may have seen him around Dallas at Kitchendog Theatre, WaterTower Theatre, Theatre Three, Stage West, Shakespeare Dallas, Project X, Second Thought Theatre, Nouveau 47, Upstart Theatre and many others. Or maybe you saw the awesome film “Inventors and Vendors”; buy your DVD today! But he's probably most well-known for his work with Funimation Entertainment, where he has voiced many characters including Ayumu Aikawa in Is this a Zombie?, Accelerator in A Certain Magical Index, Kunihito Kusanagi in Shangri-La, and Shu Ouma in Guilty Crown. Austin has also been a proud member of the Couchsurfing community since 2011. He just really loves couches.

David Wald currently lives in Houston, TX where he works as a stage actor, voice actor, and musician. He has performed at theaters in Houston including Main Street Theater, Stages Repertory Theater, and Theater Under The Stars (TUTS). He was a company member of the Houston Shakespeare Festival from 2005-2010 and is a current member of the Prague Shakespeare Company.
David began recording anime in 2005 and has since been heard as Kaito Daimon in Phi Brain: Puzzle of God, Toshio in Shiki, Gajeel in Fairy Tail, Master Chief in Halo: Legends, Paulie in One Piece, Hero in Starship Troopers: Invasion, Duke Togo in Golgo 13, Mattalast Balory in The Book of Bantorra, Kondo in Hakuoki, Choe Gu-Sang in Psycho-Pass, Dan'ichiro in Sankarea, and Teppei in Toriko among others.
David attended Elmhurst College and University of Miami as a Studio Music & Jazz: Performance major and spent several years performing with bands and musicians throughout the Midwest and in New York before settling into the actor's life in Houston, where he can still occasionally be spotted on a cabaret stage.

OMNI EXPO is a combination of this generation's craving for the latest and greatest that Technology has to offer and the yearning for a world with infinite possibilities. It will bring together the world of today and tomorrow, interspersed with the world of fantasy, which influences minds to believe in the possibilities of the future.
OMNI EXPO brings together major corporate players in the fields of Electronics, Video, Games, Communications, Anime Licensing, Home Video, and more. Companies will have a face-to-face experience with their direct buying demographic to showcase their latest and greatest Technologies, as well as letting them know what is new and coming soon!

Visit www.omniexpo.com for more information.

OMNI EXPO
www.omniexpo.com
May 22-24, 2015
Rosen Centre Hotel, Orlando, FL
Weekend Pass At Door - $55