Guests of Honor

Neil has been a voice over actor for almost 25 years in animation, dubbing, audio books, live performance, video games and other fields. His most recent video game work includes Skadge and a dozen other characters on the Guinness World Record setting "Star Wars: The Old Republic". His portrayal of Tychus Findlay on Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty has stunned fans and won him acclaim across the video game universe. However, Neil may be best known around the globe as the voice of Optimus Prime on the animated television series Transformers: Robots in Disguise. His voice work has also been prominently featured in such series as Digimon, Bleach, Marvel's Iron Man Anime as well as an important upcoming role Naruto, as well as numerous other projects in various forms of media.

During his varied career, Neil has been a theatrical and voice over director as well as a voice over teacher and coach.

He is also the Founder and President of Audio Theater For Our Troops, a non-profit foundation whose mission is to provide respite and audio entertainment to current and former members of the U.S. military and allies via free audio theatrical productions featuring Hollywood's and Broadway's finest performers and writers.

Ken Pontac has been a Guest of Honor at AOD for so many years that he's lost count (indicating that he can't count beyond the number seven, for which he blames our schools). In 2010 Pontac, who has worked on the extremely violent "Happy Tree Friends" series for more years than he can count (damn you, schools!), has attempted to balance his karma by writing episodes of the charmingly pro-social "Arthur" animated cartoon. He is also still enjoying royalty checks for writing the "LazyTown" song "You Are A Pirate," which has become an Internet meme, enjoying millions of hits on YouTube and inspiring multiple mash-ups and karaoke videos. Oh, and that "Sonic Colors" game he just worked on is getting the best ratings of any Sonic game for the past 15 years. Pontac lives in Sausalito with a beautiful redheaded nurse and his crazy canines, Whistle the Wonder Dog and Little Mickey Blue Eyes.

Growing up in a small town in British Columbia, Canada, Jayson has been a cartoon enthusiast ever since he first saw the Looney Tunes as a young child on Saturday mornings. He graduated from the classical animation program at Vancouver Film School in 1997 and jumped right into the local animation industry. Starting as a classical animator, he worked his way up the ranks, making his directing debut for two seasons of the international hit show, "Pucca" and worked with the Schulz family directing a series of "Peanuts" shorts. In his spare time, he and his wife sell their own plush toy creations online at Etsy and BigCartel. He currently has the pleasure of being the supervising director of the growing sensation, "My Little Pony: Friendship is magic". Follow Jayson on twitter @goldenrusset.

Cristina Vee is a Los Angeles based voice over actress and director.

Cristina is also known for her popular renditions of anime songs on YouTube and got her first "big break" at an anime convention. Her first roles as a professional actress were Nanoha in "Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha" and Louise in "The Familiar of Zero". Recent voice acting roles include Homura Akemi in "Madoka Magica", Mio Akiyama in "K-ON!", Alisa Bosconovitch in "Tekken: Blood Vengeance", Kanaria in "Rozen Maiden Traumend" and "Rozen Maiden Ouverture", and Nagisa in "Squid Girl". Video game credits include Noel Vermillion, Nu-13, Mu-12, and Lambda in all the current "Blazblue" titles, Riven the Exile in "League of Legends", Compa in "Hyperdimension Neptunia", and Lian Shi in "Dynasty Warriors 7", just to name a few. She has also recently completed her first gig as a director for the popular fighter "Skullgirls" and provided the voice of Cerebella for the game as well.

Cristina currently has a few songs available on iTunes. She traveled the US with the other actresses for K-ON! and performed concerts as Mio Akiyama. She also is a host of AnimeTV and was the ASOS Brigade leader for the live action Haruhi Suzumiya season 2 promotional videos.

Tommy Yune has worked for over a decade in the comic book and video game industries. His early game development experience includes character design of the pioneering 3D fighting game FX Fighter for the Nintendo SuperFX chip and conceptual design of the award-winning Journeyman Project series.

He also wrote and illustrated hit comic book titles such as Speed Racer, Racer X, Robotech, and Danger Girl: Kamikaze which were published by DC Comics' Wildstorm and Cliffhanger labels. His first work in feature animation was creating the computer-generated opening sequence of Kevin Altieri's Gen13.

Tommy first worked in an official capacity for the Robotech universe by helping design Robotech.com for its launch in 2001. He has since come aboard as Harmony Gold's creative director and oversees new development, including Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles which completed production in 2006. His recent work can been seen on Robotech.com.