Guests of Honor
Tabitha St. Germain is a blindingly glamorous award-winning Canadian former stage actress. She began working in animation during the mesozoic era, providing the voices for Kootie Pie Koopa in Super Mario Brothers, Spryte in The Legend Of Zelda, and Prudence in Beetlejuice to name a few of the early talkies. She’s a veteran of many anime shows, including Dragon Ball Z , Gundam Seed, Death Note, Ghost in Shell and Black Lagoon.
A perennial leading actress, some notable roles are Dudley Squat and Becky Hooger in Nerds and Monsters, Pickle in Endangered Species, Everything female in League of Super Evil, Martha in Martha Speaks, Heloise in Jimmy Two-Shoes. Nightmare Moon, Luna, Granny Smith, Rarity, and a host of other in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
LAUREN FAUST is an Emmy and Annie Award–winning animation artist, writer, and director.
She is best known as the creator and executive producer of Hasbro’s My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, a series that defied conventions in girls’ entertainment.
Her insistence that“for girls” does not have to mean “lame” or “boring” earned the show an unexpected audience of all ages and genders across the world.
She later created and produced the 2019 reboot of DC Super Hero Girls, reimagining the adventures of DC’s most iconic female heroes through a modern teenage lens.
Throughout her career, Faust has contributed to a number of influential animated projects, most notably The Powerpuff Girls, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, and the critically acclaimed film The Iron Giant.
She also teaches at Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University, where she mentors the next generation of animators.
Kazumi Evans is a singer and actor born and raised in Vancouver, BC, where she has performed professionally onstage with companies such as the Vancouver Opera, Vancouver Playhouse, and The Arts Club.
As a voice actor, she has had roles on numerous animated TV series and films, including Nisha in The Hollow, Queen Sarai in The Dragon Prince, Jewel Sparkles in We’re Lalaloopsy, Iris in Lolirock, Skipper in the Barbie and Her Sisters series, Rouge in Sonic Prime, Wyldfyre in Ninjago: Dragons Rising, several roles in Dr. Seuss’s Red Fish, Blue Fish for Netflix, and nine seasons as the singing voice of Rarity in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
On camera, she has appeared in productions such as Mech X-4 (Disney XD), The Bridge, With Love, Christmas, and The Mistletoe Secret for the Hallmark Channel.
When not acting, she enjoys writing. She lives in Vancouver with her husband, two sons, and their cat and dog.
DIANA KAARINA began her career in voice-over as Diana Kaarina Wong, while a teenager, dubbing for the Japanese Animé & Live Action series, Ranma 1⁄2 & Hey, Tetsuya, just as her musical theatre career was taking off. After 15 years on stage performing in shows such as Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables and RENT on Broadway, she returned to Vancouver to raise her daughter and re-establish her voice over career.
Diving right in as the voice of Barbie for 3 years and 5 movies, Diana almost immediately became a go-to talent on the animation scene. She has since voiced lead or recurring roles in Littlest Pet Shop, She-Zow, The Hollow, Super Monsters, Maya the Bee, Strawberry Shortcake: Berry Bitty Adventures, Strawberry Shortcake: Berry In the Big City, Lalaloopsy, Mighty Mighty Monsters, Minecraft, Enchantimals, World Trigger, LBX, and Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai as Maam. She has also appeared in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Equestria Girls as Saffron Masala, Shimmy Shake & Aria Blaze, Geronimo Stilton, Dinosaur Train, Beat Bugs, The Deep, Polly Pocket, Lego: Friends, and Lego: Ninjago: Dragons Rising to name a selection. Diana was born in Vancouver and is half-Chinese and half-Finnish.
Marÿke was born in Nassau, Bahamas to a British mother and an African father, and immigrated to Canada when she was young, but not so young that she forgot the sunlight.
Marÿke has been acting professionally since she was a young teenager, in theatre, on camera and on the mic; she went to professional ballet school in Toronto Canada and studied acting at London’s Royal National Theatre. After thousands of roles in commercials, video games and animated series, Marÿke considers voice acting her specialty.
Some of her favourite roles include Susan Test in ‘Johnny Test’, Loretta Bun (& others) in ‘Sausage Party’, Nova in ‘Lego Dreamzzz’, Melody in ‘The Diamond Castle’, Pamela and Paxton Pocket in ‘Polly Pocket’, Sheriff Nevermiss Jones in ‘The Guava Juice Show’, Hadley in ‘Barbie in a Mermaid Tale 1 & 2’, Kate and Boomer in ‘Kate and Mim Mim’, The Narrator in ‘Freaky Stories’, Lunamaria Hawke in the ‘Gundam’ series, Momochi Rappa in ‘Gintama’, Ava in ‘Lego Nexo Knights’, Gilda (and little Gilda!) in ‘My Little Pony Friendship is Magic’, and most especially, the rip-roaring Revy in the English dub of ‘Black Lagoon’.
Marÿke lives in Vancouver, Canada. She holds her diploma in Child and Youth Care Counseling (Douglas College, Governor General’s Academic Medal), and teaches voice acting privately and at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Film School and Surrey Civic Theatres. Marÿke plays the acoustic and electric guitar, is a rabid fan of the Toronto Blue Jays and the Toronto Raptors, and loves reading, hip hop, March Madness, the sound of wet hair being cut, the Cinephobe podcast, ice cold Coca-Cola, Prince and Black Thought and 6lack and Jessie Reyez and Earthgang and Dave, and going to live theatre, sports and music events.