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Brent Spiner 
Although best known for his portrayal of Data the android from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Mr. Spiner's TV, movie and stage work is equally impressive. Most people will remember his notable role as the head scientist in the feature film Independence Day. Brent also appeared in the movie The Aviator and was a cast member on the short-lived, but well-regarded series Threshold. Read more |
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Katee Sackhoff
Katee had the task of recreating the role of Starbuck of Battlestar Galactica as a woman. Not only did she rise to that challenge, but she generated such an presence onscreen that the show's producers decided to expand and enhance her character's role once the mini-series went episodic. Read more. |
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Robert Picardo
After seven seasons on Voyager as the holographic doctor, Bob has been performing in concerts, conventions and doing tons of acting. He has worked extensively in genre productions including: Stargate: Atlantis, Smallville, and Stargate SG-1.. Read more. |
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Ethan Phillips 
For seven seasons on Star Trek: Voyager Ethan played the ship's cook and councilor during the crew's trip through the Delta quadrant.
Prior to Trek, Mr. Phillips spent five seasons playing Pete in the sitcom Benson, and has guest starred on scores of other shows, most recently Arrested Development, Law and Order, Criminal Minds, Bones, Numb3rs, Eli Stone, and Boston Legal.
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William Katt 
After Greatest American Hero, Katt continued appearing in numerous projects on stage, screen and film. He starred in the very successful horror/comedy film series House and then again in House IV. Additionally, he has appeared on the genre shows Andromeda, Justice League and Gamers. More recently, he starred in The Man from Earth, Alien vs Hunter and had a memorable role on the current hit series Heroes.
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Patricia Tallman
She is best known as Lyta Alexander from the sci-fi series Babylon 5, where she played the most powerful telepath in the universe. But fans will get a real kick from her horror roots working for George Romero in Knightriders, Monkeyshines and Creepshow II. CMU alumn Tom Savini then cast her in the series Tales from the Darkside twice.
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Scarlett Salem
Scarlet is an independent actress and model who specializes in the horror genre. Her resume includes the films: Pajama Party Massacre, Terror Overload, Tales of the Dead, Mutilated Movies, Killer Biker Chicks, Resist Evil!
Trilogy, Camp Kill. Just to name a select few.
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Jed Rowen
This is Jed’s third straight appearance at the Starfest/HorrorFest convention dating back to 2007, when his movie, Zombie Farm, had its world premiere here. Last Chance Lance of Rue Morgue magazine later commented in a review of the film that Jed’s “…role as an inbred farmer gives Michael Berryman’s Pluto a run for his creepy cannibalistic money...” Read more. |
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Ari Lehman
A native New Yorker, Ari grew up in Westport, CT, where he trained in classical music and jazz piano. Ari snuck into an audition for a new movie, Manny's Orphan's, directed by Sean S. Cunnngham. This role led to Ari getting the call for Friday the 13th - and the rest, as they say is history. Read more.
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Jeremy Make
Jeremy is a fixture of the Denver film and theatre scene. He has appeared in three notable feature films, including Suburban (Cinequest Audience Favorite), Skills Like This, (SXSW Audience Award) and most recently as Jacob the blind Pathfinder in Ink. He recently completed a 6,000 mile, 108-day journey around the country on a golf kart while making his feature length documentary, kART Across America, is due out this summer. Read more. |
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Rachel Graham
Rachel is a Denver native who has been performing on stage since her teens. Her theater credits include Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mary in The Children’s Hour, and personal youth theater favorites Alexander in Alexander Who’s Not...Going to Move and Red Dog in Go, Dog. Go! at the Arvada Center for the Performing Arts. In her spare time, Rachel is pursuing an acting degree at the University of Northern Colorado. Read more. |
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Jeff Benham
Jeff is a freelance artist who combines words and pictures in multiple mediums and styles. His illustrations have won regional and national awards, and his theatrical designs have been chosen best of the year by critics from San Diego to Seattle. He self-publishes handmade books and comics, and works for other publishers including Dark Horse Comics and 8 Eye Press. As a long-time member of 7000 BC Comics, he both produces and teaches comics. |
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Scott Bieser
Scott began his comics career drawing stories, coloring covers and designing logos for Malibu Graphics’ various imprints in the 1980s. He left comics in 1992 to work in computer games for Interplay Productions but has since returned to his first love, graphic storytelling. He
is currently drawing Odysseus The Rebel, written by Steven Grant. Read more. |
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John Cboins 
His works in comics and illustration include Frazetta's Freedom, Graveslinger, a short story titled The Bounty Killers written by Steven Grant for Outlaw Territory from Image Comics and several childern's book including Shipwrecked! Swiss Family Robinson Tales and The Fox and the Grapes from Magic Wagon. Read more. |
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Daniel Crosier
Dan is the wood burning comic book artist of Bartholomew of the Scissors for Bluewater Productions. He's also a sculptor, sfx artist, writer, director of the samurai demon performance group OFM:OdAm fEI mUd, filmmaker, and all around sugar-sweet, nice guy. Read more. |
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Armando Durruthy
Starting on the popular comic series The Savage Dragon Armondo then worked on Marvel Adventures and then for Jim Lee at WildStorm Studios on Fantastic Four: Reborn, Iron Man: Heroes Reborn, X-Men
Vs. Wild C.A.T.S., Gen-13, Danger Girl and Divine Right: The
Adventures of Max Faraday. Read more. |
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Mike Geiger
After he started out doing storyboards for two television movies for TNT and NBC and sketch layout for Kevin Costner’s Tatanka Project, Mike fell sideways into concept art for the game industry. Later he met Shannon Denton and Patrick Coyle who invited him to put a short story in their comic anthology, Thrills and Chills from Komikwerks. Read more. |
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Kevin Gentilcore
Kevin
is an illustrator, animator, filmmaker and graphic designer. His previously published works include a 4 issue mini series for Blue Water Comics entitled Back To Mysterious Island. His work has also been seen in the Marvel Masterpieces sketch cards as well as various online sites, DVDs and animation. Upcoming film work includes the soon to be released Body in A Dumpster. Currently working as an Interactive Digital Artist for a large advertising company and working on his creator owned comic Teenage Love Zombies. |
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Amy Reeder Hadley
A Colorado native, Amy draws comics full time and is known for writing and drawing Fool's Gold for Tokyopop, and for drawing Madame Xanadu for Vertigo/DC Comics. Breaking in through Tokyopop's Rising Stars of Manga competition, her art is best described as a mixture of realism and Japanese comicking sensibilities. |
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Jason and Heather Martin
Jason is famous for slick inking style, and a highly sought-after talent in the comic industry. Heather began her career as a colorist. Together they have collaborated to develop a unique artistic style that
merges Jason's illustrations with Heather's coloring talents. Their company artplaymix.com creates character designs, pinups, and illustrative artwork for publications. Read more |
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Tom Hodges
Tom spearheads the Star Wars: Clone Wars web comic. The weekly feature on starwars.com leads into each week's new episode on the Cartoon Network series. Tom started at Lucasfilm drawing Sketch cards for Topps and then moving to the Webstrip series at the Hyperspace pages at Starwars.com. Read more. |
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Zach Howard
Zach
draws comic books and hates himself fulltime. He has worked for everyone in this industry and gets bored rather easily. He’s currently working on the re-launch of Aliens for Dark Horse. Zach has also worked on Star Wars, Star Trek, Angel, Hulk, Batman and Spider-man. |
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Bram Meehan
A New Englander by birth, a graphic designer by training, a worrier by nature, and a Santa Fean by some really good luck. Under the Panel Press imprint — along with his wife Monica and some other talented artists — he produces the comic Raised By Squirrels, and wrote the graphic novels Death, Cold As Steel and The Darkness From Warsaw. Drawing by Jamie Chase |
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Monica Meehan
Monica has been arranging words and pictures for pay since 1991. Please stop telling her to make your logo bigger. She is the artist and co-creator of Raised By Squirrels and the letterer and designer for Death, Cold As Steel and The Darkness From Warsaw.
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Lee Oaks
After studying sequential art on this continent, LEE OAKS! decided to try the next comic loving land mass. He ended up drawing for six years in the kingdom of comics, otherwise known as Belgium. Imbued with ancient secrets of the IXth art LEE OAKS! has come back to share in his enlightenment. His work includes Confessions of a Cereal Eater, Tales of Tralodren: The Beginning, Black Ice, Idris and his own creation: Thunder Monkey. He is currently illustrating the sci-fi adventure strip called Escape from Terra. |
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Thomas Rasch
Crediting Star Wars as his inspiration, Thomas has made a career as a graphic designer, flash animator, and penciler for Marvel Comics' Punisher 2099.
He currently works as a concept artist for the video game industry. Read more. |
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Nick Runge
He worked on the Angel series for three issues (interior pencils) and then had the chance to move to covers. He appreciates having time (with each piece of art) to put in the amount of detail he’d like. Nick is currently working mainly on covers. Some of the 2008 and 2009 titles have included: Angel, Ghostbusters-The Other Side, Terminator Salvation, Gene Simmon’s Phantasmagoria, Star Trek, Gutwrencher, and Peter David’s Fallen Angel. Read more. |
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Scorpio Steele
In partnership with Stefano Gaudiano, Scorpio has co-inked Spider-Man: With Great Power #5, Secret Invasion, Aftermath: Beta Ray Bill and The Green of Eden #1. 2010 sees the release of Greet the Loa Volume One: The Yesterday After All This Time, a graphic novel he is writing and illustrating, while 2012 fulfills the prophecy that he is hailed the new Messiah. Read more. |
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Noah Van Sciver
Noah is a failed painter who began his career in comics after some gentle nudging from his older brother Ethan (DC Green Lantern Rebirth). His work can be seen in his scatterbrained comic Blammo and his weekly Westword comic strip 4 Questions. Read More. |
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Brian Wood
Brian released his first series, Channel Zero, in 1997 to considerable critical acclaim and has continued to produce comics and graphic novels at a brisk pace ever since. Focusing almost entirely on creator-owned works, he’s become one of the most important indie creators of the last decade. Read more. |
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Stan Yan
Yan takes his frustrations
out by penning graphic novels such as The Wang. He is a full-time freelance cartoonist, illustrating
SubCulture for Ape Entertaiment, creating comic strips for the financial and
sales industry, and picking up odd illustration and teaching jobs when folks
are feeling agonizing pity for him. Read more. |
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Mario Acevedo
Mario is the author of the Felix Gomez vampire-detective series from Eos HarperCollins. In his latest adventure, Jailbait Zombie, Felix fights zombies for the ultimate undead smackdown. His previous books include: The Undead Kama Sutra, The Nymphos of Rock Flats and X-Rated Blood Suckers. Read more. |
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Kevin J Anderson
Kevin is the author of more than ninety novels, 41 of which have appeared on national or international bestseller lists. He has over 20 million books in print in thirty languages. He has won or been nominated for numerous prestigious awards, including the Nebula Award, Bram Stoker Award, the SFX Reader's Choice Award, the American Physics Society's Forum Award, and New York Times Notable Book. By any measure, he is one of the most popular writers currently working in the science fiction genre. Read more. |
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Mike Baron
Mike
broke into comics with Nexus, his groundbreaking science fiction title co-created with illustrator Steve Rude. He has written for Creem, The Boston Globe, Isthmus, AARP Magazine, Oui, Madison, Poudre Magazine, Popular Polar Bear, The Big Picture, and many others. Nexus is currently being published in hardcover from Dark Horse. Read more.
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Kevin Dilmore
Kevin has found interesting ways to turn geek into cash for more than a decade.
It all started in 1998 with his eight-year run as a contributing writer to Star Trek Communicator, for which he wrote news stories and personality profiles for the bimonthly publication of the Official Star Trek Fan Club. Read more |
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Christie Golden
Award-winning author Christie Golden has written thirty novels and several
short stories in the fields of science fiction, fantasy and horror. She has over a million books in print. Recently, Golden has been focusing on media tie-in work with Blizzard, creator of the Warcraft
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Joe Knetter
Joe is a writer and an actor with many credits in the horror genre
including everything from books (Twisted Loneliness, Zombie Bukkake,
Sucked up Fhit) to films (Monsterpiece Theatre, Pajama Party Massacre,
Terror Overload) to magazines (Gasp, Cryptic). His short story
collection Twisted Loneliness, which featured an introduction by Sid
Haig has spawned one short film already, with two others in the
pipeline. He currently has over a dozen scripts in various states of
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L. Neil Smith
Mr. Smith has been writing and publishing science-fiction and alt-universe stories since 1979, starting with publication of his The Probability Broach prose novel. His next graphic novel, Phoebus Krumm, will begin art production and serialization on the Big Head Press website in 2009. Read more. |
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Jeanne Stein
In the last 20 months, national bestselling author Jeanne C. Stein has had four novels and two short stories published. The novels are part of the popular Anna Strong Vampire Chronicles, of which the fourth, The Legacy, was released in September. One of her short stories, The Witch and the Wicked, appeared in the NYT bestseller, Many Bloody Returns, and a new short story, Better Lucky Than Good, in At The Scene of the Crime, an anthology with a forensic theme. Read more. |
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Carrie
Vaughn
Carrie is the New York Times bestselling author of a series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty. The fifth and sixth installments were released earlier this year.
Carrie has other projects in the works, including a young adult novel about rock climbing and dragons, due out next year. She lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her dog, Lily. Read more. |
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Dayton Ward
Author. Trekkie. Writing his stories and searching for a way to tap into the hidden nerdity that all humans have. Then, an accidental overdose of Mountain Dew altered his body chemistry, and now when Dayton Ward grows excited or just downright geeky, a startling metamorphosis occurs. Read more |
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Marc Gunn
An accomplished professional performer, Marc is a songwriter, and
producer who brings a powerful and expressive voice to Celtic music.
He is accomplished on an unusual instrument - the autoharp. His work fuses Celtic with blues, jazz and folk. Read more. |
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Robert Berg, III
Bob is an Emmy Award-nominated Producer, Director/Cinematographer, and a Contributing Emmy Award-winning Editor, who has worked in the television and motion picture industry since 1987. Bob's award-winning science fiction short-film, Orthogenesis, was screened at StarFest 2006. This year he'll be screening his latest sci-fi short film titled Shaqani. Read more. |
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Jaume Collet-Serra
Jaume had considerable experience directing commercials before he started work on his first feature film, House of Wax. The update to the 1953 Vincent Price film was perhaps most famous for one of its supporting stars, Paris Hilton. Here at HorrorFest, to promote his latest film, Orphan, Jaume will take the Main Events Stage for your questions following footage from his latest horror movie. Read more. |
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Sky Conway
Sky is the President of Renegade Studios and producer of the fan favorite Roddenberry on Patrol. He is the creator, writer and producer of the award-winning web film Star Trek: Of Gods and Men. His ability to create high-quality entertainment on a minuscule budget led to his production of Walter Koenig's script InAlienable. He is currently finishing the script for a sci-fi TV series: FREE SPACE. |
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Kevin Myhre
Kevin Myhre just finished his degree in Digital Video and Media Production from the Minnesota School of Business. He directed special effects and pick-up shots for Doomed to Consume. He was the special effects make-up artist on YN3: Pajama Party Massacre and took on the roles of special effects make-up artist, Editor, Producer, and Director (for one segment) on Terror Overload.
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Jason Stephensen
Jason is head honcho of the horror film group NFTS (Not For The Squeamish) Productions based out of St. Paul, Minnesota. He takes care of everything from script development, casting calls and promoting to producing, filming, directing and more! His credits include the upcoming Terror Overload,YN3: Pajama Party Massacre, Doomed to Consume and Off The Beaten Path.Read more. |
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Richard Taylor
Richard is from Denver, Colorado and works generously for Troma Entertainment. Recently just got off the film Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead! doing the Blood FX on the film. He also has a small acting part. Richard is currently making Horror/Comedy films here in Denver with his productions company BIZJACK FLEMCO and is promoting his films including last year's The Misled Romance of Cannibal Girl and Incest Boy.
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Aristomenis Tsirbas "Meni"
Meni was the Visual and Digital Effects Supervisor for A Wrinkle in Time and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He is the writer/director of Ray Tracey in Full Tilt, Mech Warrior: Vengeance, and the highly acclaimed short The Freak. He is coming to Starfest to present footage from his latest project the animated feature Battle for Terra.
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Jamin Winans
Jamin is a 31-year-old writer/director living and working here in Denver. He established Double Edge Films nine years ago and has made several critically acclaimed shorts and the feature films 11:59 and Ink - which will be shown at Starfest. His last short film Spin won over 40 awards and played at over 80 film festivals. Spin has 3 million hits across YouTube and has played on television in the US, Russia, Germany, France and Denmark.
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Kiowa K. Winans
The colorado native has a degree in Finance and law degree from DU. She has co-produced the short film Spin and assisted in its world-wide promotion. Recently she aquired financing for Ink and contributed to the creative and business aspects of pre-production, production and post-production. She is very proud to have been able to bring Ink to completion on time and on budget. Read more. |
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Prime Dimension Studios
The Denver-based small press comic book company was started in 2006. Prime Dimension Studios had initially planned to produce a film based on their Sunset storyline, but then decided in 2007 to present it as a comic book. Read more. |
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Angry Commuter Comics
Ryan Hatch and Patrick Hoover
Artist Patrick Hoover has long enjoyed reading comics, since he was old enough to ride his bike to the local 7 Eleven and pickup a copy of "Groo" off the spinner rack. Teaming up with friend and writer Ryan Hatch, the two created Mr. Wrinkles, and a website to showcase it at AngryCommuterComics.com. Read more. |
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| Master of Ceremonies |
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Kevin Atkins
Our beloved Master of
Ceremonies, Kevin has been with the Starcon/Starfest conventions for over 30
years, but there are no cobwebs on this guy - just a little wear and tear.
Kevin is famous for his corny internet jokes which he unleashes whenever there is a pause in
the action onstage. Please pray there are no pauses!
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