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COAF 2026 Guests
Adam Gibbs
Adam Gibbs is an American voice actor of the stage, voice, and screen. Most known for his work in the anime industry.
Notable roles include:
Cid/Shadow (The Eminence in Shadow), Shinichi (Parasyte: The Maxim), Sugawara (Haikyu!!), Tamsy (Gachiakuta), Seita (Grave of the Fireflies), Natsuo (My Hero Academia), Urie (Tokyo Ghoul:re), Kamekuchi and Concelot (One Piece), Hyakkimaru (Dororo), Ikki (Saint Seiya), Hachiman (My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU), Kurose (Chainsaw Man), Natsume ( Natsume’s Book of Friends), Uramichi (Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan)
Outside of the studio, he has spent nearly 20 years in the professional theatre industry. During that time, he has been involved in originating over half a dozen plays and musicals, many of which were produced at Houston’s Alley Theatre, where he met the love of his life. Together, they make Houston their home with their two brilliant daughters and their newest addition, a one-month-old baby boy. He is also an avid woodworker, cook, and instrumentalist.
Ciarán Strange
You may have heard him as foul-mouthed, under-caffeinated NPCs Lor (Borderlands 3) & Paladin Mike (Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands), or even in various anime (Chainsaw Man, Black Butler, Pop Team Epic!, Tomo-chan Is A Girl!, Requiem of the Rose King, AOASHI, Apothecary Diaries, The Case Study Of Vanitas, SK8 the Infinity) and video games (Monster Camp, Umbraclaw, High Times by YangYang Mobile) — but IRL he’s Ciarán Strange, an eccentric transgender voice actor, indie rockstar, and multimedia artist. At the tender age of seventeen, he left his family, friends, and English fishing village behind in order to chase his dreams across the Atlantic!
Strange has become a familiar face throughout the American geek scene, in most parts via his music. After touring the US, UK, Canada, and Japan, performing at hundreds of shows, conventions, and festivals, Ciarán has been known for his geeky covers and parodies, as well as his own original pop-punk-rock songs, which you can find on streaming platforms under Kieran Strange.
After a hiatus, Ciarán is returning to livestreaming this Fall with a fresh concept project, combining his love of song-writing, world-building, story-telling, mental health & LGBTQ+ activism, and (with any luck!) a Nat 20 or two in charisma... So make sure you check in with him this weekend to learn about his cosmic new VTuber, CL (@CozypunkCL)!
Vocal ventures aside, this British import to the States has been swept up relaunching his LGBTQ+ urban sci-fi series. Its debut novel, Black Tie by Ciarán Strange, is a gay romance thriller he’s pitched as “an awkward James Bond navigating a world full of superhumans”.
Daman Mills
Daman Mills is a voice actor and director. His best known voice credits include the Dragon Ball series (Frieza, Monaka), Final Fantasy VII Remake (Weiss the Immaculate), Honkai: Star Rail (Blade), SK8 the Infinity (Cherry Blossom), Shin Megami Tensei V (Aogami), My Hero Academia (Mustard, Moonfish, High-End), One Piece(Douglas Bullet, Tanaka), Pokémon Masters (N), Evangelion Rebuild films (Kaworu Nagisa), Cookie Run Kingdom (Milk Cookie), Haikyuu! (Osamu Miya), Trigun: Stampede (Legato Bluesummers), Digimon Adventure 2020 (Joe Kido), That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (Diablo), Nanbaka (Jyugo), RWBY (Prof. Lionheart), Kuroko’s Basketball (Midorima), Borderlands 3 (Titus), Tokyo Ghoul:re (Shirazu), Yuri!!! On ICE(Yakov), Beastars (Kai), The Promised Neverland (Sonju), Blue Period (Yotasuke Takahashi), Kono Oto Tomare: Sounds of Life (Chika Kudo), and Mobile Legends Bang Bang (Aamon).
Daman can also be heard in a number of video games such as: Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge, World of Warcraft, The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie, Loop8: Summer of Gods, Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius, Lost Ark, Tales of Luminaria, Monster Hunter Rise, Fire Emblem Heroes, Ys IX: Monstrum Nox, Chocobo GP, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, Cris Tales, NEO: The World Ends With You, Phantom Breaker Omnia, Marvel Super War, Epic Seven, SMITE, Paladins, and Maple Story.
To keep up with Daman, follow @DamanMills on Twitter, Instagram or TikTok! Or check out his website: www.damanmillsvo.com
Dorothy Fahn
Dorothy is a native of southern California who began her career as a stage and on-camera actress, specializing in musicals… and commercials with no dialog!
Since then, she has lent her voice to hundreds of Anime, Video Games, ADR,
and Animation titles, some of which are Konan in Naruto, Mercedes in Fire
Emblem, Meryl in Trigun, Ms. Bustier in Miraculous Ladybug, Tai’s Mom,
Lillymon, Rosemon, and lots of other ‘mons’ in Digimon, Kie Kamado in Demon Slayer, Genkai in Yu Yu Hakusho Live Action, and Chihiro, Sayaka, & Tsumugi in Danganronpa!
Other anime roles include: Yukiko Inomata in Blue Box, Komi’s Mom in Komi
Can’t Communicate, Melody in Hunter x Hunter, Nena-Empress in JoJo’s
Bizarre Adventure, Naru in Love Hina, Cyprine & Ptilol in Sailor Moon,
Asuna’s Mom in Sword Art Online, Kaoru in Rurouni Kenshin, Pioran in To
Your Eternity, Yoshino in Bleach, Margaret in The Seven Deadly Sins,
Merribit in Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, Rilakkuma’s Theme Park Adventure,
Cyberpunk Edgerunners, Gudetama, Little Aurora in Tiger & Bunny 2, Masao
in Captain Tsubasa: Jr Youth Arc, and one of her faves, Maiko in Kill la Kill!
Games include Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes,
Danganronpa V3, and Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. She’s also Marley &
Agatha in Pokémon Masters, Fallout 4, Gnar in League of Legends, World of
Warcraft: Legion, Shining Resonance Refrain, Valkyria Chronicles 4, Death end
re;Quest 2, Phantasy Star Online 2, Seven Knights & Seven Knights 2, and many
others!
Dorothy is represented by CTC Talent in Los Angeles, CA, and thanks her hubby,
daughter, and family for all their love and support!
Twitter: @DorothyFahn
Instagram: @dotfahn
Jill Harris
Jill Harris is another classic example of an anime fan turned professional. She started working in VO at the age of 15, recording for projects in her home studio after school. At 20, she relocated to DFW and started working with Funimation—now known as anime juggernaut Crunchyroll.
She started strong with characters like Noelle Silva in Black Clover, Mandalay in My Hero Academia, Aura Bella Fiora (one of the elf twins) in Overlord, and Nino Nakano in The Quintessential Quintuplets.
In 2017, Jill booked Charlie Magne in the Hazbin Hotel pilot, which went viral on YouTube with over 100 million views. It’s since spawned the hit Amazon Prime series of the same name, featuring an all new cast of stars from Hollywood & Broadway.
Since then, she’s been on that anime grind, providing the voice for Fern in Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Suletta Mercury in Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, Yuzuriha in Hell’s Paradise, and Charlotte Pudding, Sanji’s fiance, in One Piece, as well as many others.
If you want to find her online, she goes by “jillsvoice” most places (Instagram, TikTok, Twitch.) The only exception is Twitter (I refuse to call it “X”) on which her handle is @JillHarrisVO
Jordan Dash Cruz
Jordan Dash Cruz is an actor and director residing in DFW Texas. Originally hailing from the ole Sunshine State of Florida, Jordan likes long walks on the beach, most 90s sitcoms, his wife and pineapple on pizza. When he's not busy playing video games, hanging out with his wife or admiring Ralph Macchio's beautiful Crane kick in The Karate Kid, he likes to act. So much so, he's been doing it professionally for 7 years!
You can hear him across a multitude of anime titles and video games such as:
Stark in Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
(Mini) Master Roshi in Dragon Ball Daima
Temenos in OCTOPATH TRAVELER 2
Aoshi Tokimitsu in BLUELOCK
Leon Fou Bartfort in Trapped in a Dating Sim
Qi Rong in Heaven Official's Blessing
Tom Fahn
Tom is best known as the voice of Agumon in the TV series Digimon: Digital Monsters, and he reprised the role in Digimon: The Movie, the Digimon Adventure Tri movies, and various Digimon video games. Recent game credits include Brigand Boss in both Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia and Fire Emblem Heroes, as well as Twin Mirror, One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows, and God of War. Tom’s voice can also be heard in Sand Land, Rilakkuma’s Theme Park Adventure on Netflix, Edens Zero for Bang Zoom! on Netflix, Cells at Work Code Black for Funimation, The Rising of the Shield Hero on Hulu, and Naruto, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, and Hunter x Hunter on Toonami Adult Swim.
Memorable roles include Stu the Turtle and Male Ox in Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, directed by Carlos Saldanha for 20th Century Fox, and anime fans may remember his death scene as Rocco Bonnaro in Cowboy Bebop with Steve Blum, directed by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn. He can also be heard begging for his life in Watchmen: The End Is Nigh, directed by Collette Sunderman, or dying several times as several characters across multiple episodes of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Some of his early lead roles include Sho/Guyver in The Guyver and Kei in Orguss, both directed by Kevin Seymour. A career highlight was working in the same studio on the old Hanna-Barbera lot where The Flintstones were recorded, playing the Woim in Boid ’n Woim for Cartoon Network’s What a Cartoon!, directed by Kris Zimmerman.
Originally from Huntington, NY, Tom always wanted to be an actor, but his greatest credits are his wife, Dorothy, and their daughter. They live in Los Angeles, where he is represented by the legendary Vanessa Gilbert at RSA.
Tony Oliver
Tony Oliver, who was named to IMDB’s top 20 all time Anime Voice Actors list, began his career as an actor on stage and camera performing in several feature films and dozens of plays. He found success as a voice artist, lending his voice to one of the first Anime features to a receive wide US television release - The Sea Prince and the Fire Child. His first foray into series television was as the voice of Rick Hunter in the groundbreaking anime series Robotech. Following that, he turned his attention to writing but continued his voice acting career. In 1988 he joined Saban Entertainment as a story editor where he wrote and co-produced an award-winning adaptation of The Jungle Book. Tony was then tapped to help create a new kind of children's television show. The result was the mega hit, The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. He served as the development producer and head writer and also wrote the pilot, Co-Produced the series, directed the voice actors, played the voice of Saba, and produced and directed the Power Rangers live appearance at Universal Studios, which drew an estimated 50,000 people on a single day.
After leaving Saban Entertainment, Tony continued to develop, produce, direct, and act in numerous Theatrical film, Television, Video Game, and Streaming Media projects including Daigunder for ABC Family/Disney; Gurren Lagann for the Sci Fi Channel, Eureka Seven: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers which premiered on theatrical screens nationwide, and numerous video games including BlazBlue: Continuum Shift, .hack//GU, Delta Force: Black Hawk Down, Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring, Dynasty Warriors, World of Warcraft, Basara 3 and Bravely Default.
Tony’s theatrical voice acting credits include, Hoodwinked Too, The Muppet’s Wizard of Oz, Lupin the 3rd the First, The Night is Short:Walk on Girl and Alien Xmas, a Netflix Original Christmas special from the Chido Brothers and executive producer Jon Favereau, for which he also served as voice director. Anime voice acting credits include Vandread, Sayuki Reload, Gun Grave, Cho-bits, Bleach, Lupin the 3rd, and Naruto, where he can be heard as Minato, the Fourth Hokage.
Tony has also served as voice director for numerous projects including the English releases of Fate/Zero and Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Bladeworks, Fate Stay Night Heavens Feel in which he also voices the character of Lancer, Fate: Apocrypha, a Netflix Original Series, Lego Friends, Fate Grand Order, Ghost in the Shell 2045, Orient, and BeyBlade Burst: Quad Strike for Bang Zoom! Studios and DisneyXD.
Follow him on his website!