Guests at Chicago Con
Join us for autographs, panels, and more! Guests at C+A+D are awesome people who come to share fandom, voice acting experience, and culture with everyone attending. Guests are announced as they accept our invitations to participate in our convention. Please note that the guest list may change at any time due to guest's other personal obligations. We are excited to welcome some of the best voice actors and performers to our annual convention.
Blake Shepard
Chris McCullough
Jessica Cavanagh
Mary Morgan
Saffron Henderson
Blake Shepard
Acting in anime for over 20 years, Blake Shepard is an American voice actor who works on many popular anime. He has provided voices for a number of English-language versions of Japanese anime series and films; notable credits include Ikki from Amnesia, Yuzuru Otonashi from Angel Beats!, Soma Yukihira from Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma, Arata Wataya from Chihayafuru, Tanaka from Tanaka-kun is Always Listless, Birthday from Hamatora, Agito Wanijima from Air Gear, Godo Kusanagi from Campione!, Taro Sado from MM!, Kei Takishima from S · A: Special A, Kyosuke Natsume from the Little Busters! series, Futoshi from Darling in the Franxx, Akiyuki Takehara from Xam’d: Lost Memories, Shiryu from Saint Seiya, and Hiro Hiyorimi from Princess Resurrection.
Chris McCullough
Chris McCullough is a versatile voice actor celebrated for his roles in Five Nights at Freddy’s, the video game Prodigy, and the anime classic Class of ‘09. Known for his dynamic range and engaging performances, Chris brings unforgettable characters to life, making him a favorite among fans of animation and gaming alike. Chris has a passion for impersonations, a niche for accents, and a wide vocal range. Christopher draws on many years of stage theater along with improvisational comedy to provide a voice that not only can be zany and comical, but also conversational and heartwarming. From evil and villainous to the humble boy next door, anything is possible.
Jessica Cavanagh
Jessica Cavanagh is a Dallas-based theatre artist, voice actor, and writer. As a staff writer with Funimation Entertainment, she’s adapted hundreds of episodes of Japanese anime for an English-speaking audience (some favorites are Golden Kamuy, Recovery of an MMO Junkie, Sakura Quest, and Fuuka) and she’s also worked extensively as an actor in their English broadcast dubs, voicing roles in Attack on Titan (Carla Jaeger), Fairy Tail (Aquarius), Steins;Gate (Moeka/Shining Finger), Black Butler (Paula), One Piece (Curly Dadan), My Hero Academia (Inko Midoriya, Izuku’s sweet mama!), Karneval (Iva), Katana Maidens (Akane Origami), and many others. Her play, Self-Injurious Behavior, which is based loosely on her own experience as the parent of her autistic son and favorite human, Elijah, was just presented off-broadway at Urban Stages in NYC in April 2019. Jessica is passionate about telling women’s stories now that she’s actually tried it and she’s pretty determined to spend the rest of her life doing as much of that as possible!
Mary Morgan
Mary Morgan is an American voice actress celebrated for her work in animation, anime, and video games. She has voiced a wide range of characters in English dubbed titles, including roles such as Katase in High School DxD, Yi Soo-Na in Freezing, Kyoko Kasuga in Deadman Wonderland, and Pyxis in Fairy Tail. Mary’s extensive credit list reflects her versatility and skill in bringing diverse characters to life across numerous series and games.
Saffron Henderson
Saffron’s best known roles are Kid Goku and Kid Gohan in Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, Shenhua in Black Lagoon, Sachiko Yagami in Death Note, Lucrezia Noin in Gundam Wing and Oxnard in Hamtaro.
Henderson has appeared in live-action work roles, (including a brief appearance in The Fly II as Veronica Quaife replacing Geena Davis who had starred in the first film),4 the romantic comedy Cousins as Terri Costello, and Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan5 as rocker J.J. who is killed by Jason Voorhees with her own guitar.
