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Sina Grace

Sina Grace is a GLAAD media award-winning writer and artist living in Los Angeles, best known for a prolific library of work that balances slice-of-life, blockbuster action, and everything in-between. His groundbreaking Iceman series at Marvel Comics paved the way for Grace to work on all of his favorites: Jughead's Time Police for Archie, Wonder Woman for DC, Go Go Power Rangers for Boom Studios, and The Haunted Mansion for Disney/ IDW. He is currently promoting Rockstar and Softboy at Image Comics, and Superman: The Harvests of Youth, a young adult graphic novel he wrote and illustrated at DC.

Nicole Kang

Nicole Kang is recently starring as everyone's favorite environmentalist, Mary Hamilton aka Poison Ivy in the new CW's Batwoman. She has also appeared on Netflix’s YOU as Lynn Lieser and as Kiki in Orange is the New Black. She has also appeared in the 2020 Indie Horror movie, Ten Minutes to Midnight. Other credits include: Cheyenne, In the Cards, Instinct, Two Sentence Horror Stories, The Feels, Swallow, and The Social Ones.

Nicole is also a writer and is a proud member of the Actor’s Studio and has a BFA in acting from Tisch at NYU.

Nicloas Roye

Born in New Jersey and raised in Louisiana, Nicolas Roye is an American actor known for voicing major roles in video games, animation, anime, and commercials.

Nicolas’ voice can be heard in many popular video game titles, most recently as Echo-216 aka "The Pilot", one of the lead characters in Halo Infinite. He is widely known for voicing the daredevil adrenaline-junkie Octavio ‘Octane’ Silva in Apex Legends with over 100 Million players. Also Cyberpunk 2077 as Cesar Ruiz & Hal Cantos, Marvels Avengers as Justin Hammer & Sydney Levine, Resident Evil: Resistance as Martin Sandwich, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Astral Chain, Code Vein, Horizon Zero Dawn, Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution & Ultimate Ninja Storm 4, Fire Emblem Warriors & Fire Emblem Heroes, Nier: Automata, El Sword, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Hitman Absolution, Mafia II & III, The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, and many more.

Nicolas is recognized as the voice of many characters in anime and animated series & movies, such as WEB-STER in Disney Jr.'s #1 show Spidey and His Amazing Friends, Gino in DreamWorks Madagascar: A Little Wild, Matt in the most recent Digimon Adventure movie, Rafa in 2022's Barbie: It Takes Two, Chuuya Nakahara in Bungou Stray Dogs, Shisui Uchiha in Naruto Shippuden, Tetta Kisaki in Tokyo Revengers, Guevaru in Baki Hanma, Junpei in Jujutsu Kaiser, Hatz in Tower of God, Mikey Kudo in Digimon Fusion, Arata Inanaki in Twin Star Exorcists, Masato Sanada in High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even In Another World, Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures and Star Wars Fun Facts, Legend of the Three Caballeros as Vomit, Subway Surfers as Jake, NFL Rushzone as Ricky, Mecard as Ryan, The Grossery Gang, and Disney Jr’s Guess How Much I Love You. 

He has also been the voice of numerous nationwide commercial campaigns, such as Taco Bell Breakfast, NASCAR, Pepsi, Hot Wheels, Mountain Dew, & White Castle.

A graduate in theater from University of New Orleans, Louisiana, Nicolas has a multitude of stage credits including the leading roles of Pale in Burn This and Sebastian in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

Johnny Young

Johnny Young is a professional Actor who has been featured in Film, Television, Theater, Motion capture, and Voice Acting. Some of his work includes Ayla The Daughter of War (2017 Entry Oscar for Best foreign picture), Bosch (Amazon), Ghost Whisperer (CBS), Crossing Over(The Weinstein Company), Sharp, and Lonely Boy.

Fans can also find Johnny Voice and acting performance As Crypto in Respawns fast paced Apex Legends, D.Va’s best friend DaeHyun in Blizzards wonderful world of Overwatch, and as Sho in the terrifying WWZ. He has also Voiced matched Michael Pitts stellar performance in the film Ghost in a Shell. Johnny is currently working on a few shows but cannot announce anything because of signed NDA contracts. Breach of contract might mean assassination by a clan of Ninjas so please be patient and be on the look out.

On his time off Johnny is an avid gamer. You can find him on Twitch.tv/tigerj115. He also enjoys getting punched in the face doing Maui Thai and loves tapping out as a slow learning white belt in Juijitsu.

Connect with him on Twitter @JohnnyYoung115 and Instagram @Johnnyyoung_115.

Elle Newlands

Elle Newlands was born in Glasgow, Scotland and currently resides in Los Angeles. 

A singer and actress, Elle received classical and operatic voice training from a teacher who taught the classics at La Scala in Italy. Throughout her teens, Elle performed live on stage with various local bands and was featured on MTV. She headlined a European tour culminating in a performance on the main stage at the Ballerup Music Festival in Denmark. 

Elle moved to Los Angeles to further pursue music/acting and quickly realized her love of voiceover work. Her first job was voicing an Acorn for the project 'Tiny Oaks’, where she sang on an accompanying album written and orchestrated by legendary Disney composer Richard Sherman (It’s a Small World, Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang). 

Elle’s video game voice credits include Horizon in APEX LEGENDS, Ingrid the Shieldmaiden in ASGARDS WRATH, Moira Thaurissan/Tess Graymane/Valtois in WORLD OF WARCRAFT, Darth Savik in STAR WARS:THE OLD REPUBLIC, Broadcaster in DOOM:ETERNAL, Tedra Grant in HALO 3, Becky in the popular anime title THE LEGENDS OF HEROES: TRAILS OF COLD STEEL, Lt Wright in LEGO STAR WARS, Valeria Jenner in COUNTERSTRIKE GSO, CALL OF DUTY, ASSASSINS CREED, DARKSIDERS, SKYLANDERS, BIO SHOCK, THE ELDER SCROLLS : SKYRIM. 

TV/Animation credits include LOONEY TUNES, ADVENTURE TIME, THE REGULAR SHOW, HOT STREETS, IT’S A SMALL WORLD ANIMATED SERIES and THE TONIGHT SHOW. 

In her spare time, Elle loves photography, hiking with her dog, riding her horse and making jewelry. She supports the non profit Topanga Womens Circle, who assist in placing displaced and homeless families into safe housing 

https://topangawomenscircle.org 

You can find her @ellenewlands on Twitter and @ellenewlandsgram on Instagram

Mela Lee

Mela Lee is a voice actress and vocalist based in Los Angeles whose work can be heard in over two hundred animated series, films, television shows and video games.

She is best known as the voice of Lifeline in Apex Legends, and the voice of Jade in Mortal Kombat 11, Rin Tohsaka in the Fate Stay Night franchise and Tikki in Miraculous Ladybug, and Kikimora in The Owl House for Disney.

In Anime, she voices Rin Tohsaka in the Fate/stay Night series, Kanata Ubuyashiki in Demon Slayer, Melascula in Seven Deadly Sins, Canary in HunterxHunter, Yuki Cross in Vampire Knight, Shinku in Rozen Maiden, Erica Karisawa in Durarara!! Freya in SwordArt Online, & Rena in the cult favorite When They Cry. Additional animation credits include Princess Zanda for Marvel Avengers Assemble: Black Panther’s Quest( Disney), Maestro Moon in Do Re+Mi with Kristen Bell (Amazon) , and Lady Fuwa in Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles (Netflix)

In video games, in addition to Apex Legends and Mortal Kombat 11, you can find her as the voice of Rachel Alucard in BlazBlue, Adult & Young Tiki in the Fire Emblem franchise, Sharon Krueger/Scarlet in Trails of Cold Steel, Zeta in Gran Blue Versus.

She is the lead composer and vocalist for Magnolia Memoir with Alexander Burke and has a new Solo Album slated for Spring 2023. Her hobbies and interests include Mental Health Awareness and support for First Responders, Quantum Theory, Neuroscience, Material Ecology, and baking for her charity MellaBellaBakery.

Follow Mela on Social Media:

@TheMelaLee Instagram

@TheMelaLee Twitter

@TheMelaLee TikTok

For News and to Sign up for FREE Voice Acting workshops go to www.MelaLee.com

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