Tom Wayland to appear at Otakon® 2011
Tom Wayland to appear at Otakon® 2011
Baltimore, MD (May 9, 2011) – Voice Actor, Producer, and Director Tom Wayland to appear at Otakon 2011.
Tom Wayland is proud to have made a long and successful career out of his most favorite things - acting, directing, and making raucous, loud rock and roll music. Tom has produced and/or directed hundreds of anime programs such as Now & Then, Here & There, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Alien Nine, The World of Narue, Ichi the Killer, Mew Mew Power, Magical DoReMi, and G.I. Joe and currently serves as the voice director on the hit series Pokémon.
Tom is also a very busy voice actor having appeared in hundreds of titles currently airing
on Cartoon Network, Fox, WB, Nickelodeon or available on DVD including Yugi-oh
5Ds as Crow, Lester, and Nervin, G.I. Joe as Stormshadow, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
as Jammerhead, Pokémon as Flint, Reggie, Arceus, and numerous creatures, Ikki Tousen
as Kakuton, Three Delivery, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Chaotic, One Piece, Mew Mew Power, Knight
Hunters, Genshiken, Gokusen, and keep an ear out for his latest work as one of the lead
characters - Finn in Tai-Chi Chasers.
Most recently Tom is proud to say that he's cornered the Indian animation market as the
go-to slacker/stoner character and is also conquering the world of ESL teaching the
masses how to be talking some good English.
Otakon 2011 will be held July 29 – 31 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore,
Maryland.
ABOUT OTAKON AND OTAKORP, INC.: Now entering its eighteenth year, Otakon is
an annual celebration of Japanese and East Asian popular culture, and also one of the
largest gatherings of fans in the United States. Otakon celebrates popular culture as a
gateway to deeper understanding of Asian culture, and has grown along with the
enthusiasm for anime, manga, video games, and music from the Far East. Since 1999,
Otakon has been held in Baltimore, Maryland; currently, Otakon is one of Baltimore's
few large, city-wide events, drawing over 29,000 individual members for three days each
year (for a paid attendance of over 80,000 turnstile attendees). Otakon is a membership-based convention sponsored by Otakorp, Inc., a Pennsylvania-based, 501(c)3 educational non-profit whose mission is to promote the appreciation of Asian culture, primarily through its media and entertainment. Otakorp, Inc. is directed by an all-volunteer, unpaid staff – we are run by fans, for fans.
For more information about Otakorp, Inc., see http://www.otakon.com/otakorp/index.asp
For more information and the latest news on Otakon 2011, see http://www.otakon.com/
