2025 Guest panel schedule
March 29th (X-Mansion Room)
12:00pm – Linda Ballantyne & Katie Griffin
1:00pm – Chase Masterson
2:00pm – Garrett Wang
3:00pm – Johnny Desjardins
6:00pm – Storytime with Fat Apollo
March 30th (X-Mansion Room)
11:00am – Johnny Desjardins
12:00pm – Garrett Wang
1:00pm – Chase Masterson
2:00pm – Linda Ballantyne & Katie Griffin
*Guests are also available during regular vendor hall hours for autographs and to chat with attendees (when not doing a scheduled panel or taking a short break for lunch).
Linda Ballantyne
VOICE ACTOR
For the past 30 years, Linda’s has worked as a professional voice actor. Her extensive animation career consists of a wide variety of characters including series leads in Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon/Serena), The Avengers (Wasp), Disney’s Yin Yang Yo (Saranoia, Ella Mental, Smoke and more), Cyberchase (Wicked), George of the Jungle (Magnolia), Go Dog Go! (Lady Lydia, Mayor Sniffington, Sgt. Pooch, etc), Book Hungry Bears (Narrator), Max and Ruby (Mom, Candi), Top Wing (Honu Turtle and Bonnie), Luna Around the World (Pippa Chockers), Mia and Me (Queen Mayla), Toot and Puddle (Tulip), Will and Dewitt (Shelley), Gerald McBoing Boing (Gerald’s Mom), Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks (Sinker), Mischief City (Mrs. Adams), Corduroy (Moppy’s Mom), Timothy Goes to School (Fritz’s Mom), Animal Shelf (Getup), and many, many more.
She has also voiced various characters in The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That, The Doodlebops, Totally Spies, 6Teen, Time Warp Trio, Carl Squared, Bob and Margaret, Girl Stuff Boy Stuff, George Shrinks, etc. In addition, Linda voiced characters in the feature films Thomas and the Magic Railroad (Percy), Care Bear’s Journey to Joke-A-Lot (Champ Bear), Care Bear’s Big Wish Movie (Champ Bear), Disney’s Lucky Ducks (Reporter) and many others. Linda has voiced hundreds of commercials world-wide and was the voice of the Comedy Network for 13 years.
Toronto born Katie Griffin has had a successful acting career on both the large and small screen since her 1992 debut as Dede in Are You Afraid of The Dark – Tale of The Prom Queen. A student of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles, Katie’s diverse and unique talent has been featured in a wide array of projects over the years – from the recent gritty Netflix series Grand Army to animated shows such as Go Dog, Go! and Agent Binky: Pets of the Universe on Amazon Prime. One of Canada’s pre-eminent voice actors, Katie has spent the majority of her 30-year career inside a recording booth, voicing commercials, cartoons, and jingles. Katie’s roles include Sailor Mars from the iconic Anime series Sailor Moon, Ruby from Max and Ruby, Alex from Totally Spies and more recently as Sam Sparks in the animated series Cloudy with A Chance of Meatballs, a role which garnered her a Canadian Screen Award nomination. Katie is thrilled about the release of two upcoming animated shows, Superbuns, a role in which she was nominated for the 2024 ACTRA Award for best voice performance, and the newest season of the highly popular Total Drama Island, as Scary Girl (Lauren). She is also very proud to be part of the Gangnam Project playing the role of Julie Shin and due for release in March, 2024. She currently resides in Toronto with her husband and two sons.
CHASE MASTERSON
ACTOR, VOICE ACTOR & Advocate
Chase Masterson is an actress, voice artist, songwriter, live performer, and advocate, born in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She is best known for her five-year role as Leeta on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine from 1995 to 1999, a character she continues to portray alongside Kate Mulgrew and Wil Wheaton in Star Trek Online.
Mel Brooks cast Chase in her first role in Robin Hood: Men in Tights and her list of film leads and TV Guest Stars includes starring with Mark Hamill in Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles, starring opposite Bruce Campbell in SyFy’s Terminal Invasion, playing Sherry on CW’s The Flash, hosting Sunday Night at the Movies with Ryan Seacrest, hosting on SyFy, playing opposite Jerry O’Connell in Sliders, General Hospital, the Emmy-winning episode of ER, the short film R.U.R.: Genesis, and leads in Manipulated and the critically acclaimed film noir, Yesterday Was a Lie, released by eOne.
Chase is currently starring opposite Eric Roberts in Doctor Who: The Master, from Big Finish, after starring in the title role in Doctor Who: Big Finish’s spin-off VIENNA for 4 Seasons. She also stars as Dr. Steiz in the film You’re Not There which premiered in December 2024.
Having experienced bullying during her school years, Masterson co-founded the Pop Culture Hero Coalition in 2013, the first nonprofit organization to use stories from TV and film to rise against bullying, misogyny, LGBTQIA+ bullying, racism, and cyberbullying. The coalition’s psychologists do life-saving work in schools and comic-cons; Chase serves on the Advisory Board for the United Nations Association for her work in this field.
Masterson has released two records: “Yesterday Was a Lie” (2011) and “Burned With Desire” (2012). Additionally, she has produced several independent jazz CDs.
In recognition of her contributions to film and television, Masterson was named “Best Feature Film Producer” by the LA Femme Film Festival in 2008.
garrett wang
ACTOR
Born in Riverside, California to Chinese immigrant parents, Garrett Wang (pronounced Wong) spent his formative years on the move, living in Indiana, Bermuda and Tennessee. He moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA where he majored in East Asian Studies and minored in theater. He was especially proud of his portrayal of Michio Tanaka in Wakako Yamauchi’s play 12-1-A, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the wrongful internment of Japanese American civilians during World War II. In his first stage performance outside of UCLA, Garrett garnered critical acclaim as the lead in Chay Yew’s controversial play, Porcelain.
For five years, Garrett focused on theater and attempted to convince his Asian parents and relatives that acting was a viable profession as opposed to becoming a Doctor as he had originally planned since Eighth Grade. With his parents finally on his side, he signed with his first talent agent in 1993. Within a year he landed his first speaking role, guest starring on the first episode of the ABC sitcom All American Girl starring comedienne Margaret Cho. Three months later, Wang was cast in the role of Harry Kim on Star Trek Voyager. In addition to being a series regular on Voyager, Garrett was named as one of People Magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People as well as one of E! Channel’s “20 Coolest Bachelors.”
From 2005 until 2019, Garrett took an extended break from Hollywood. With the exception of the occasional cameo appearance in a few independent projects, Garrett focused on traveling, golfing, designing T-shirts, attending conventions, and watching NFL football. In 2020, he began recording episodes of his Star Trek podcast, The Delta Flyers. With his Voyager co-star, Robert Duncan McNeill, he continues to upload a new episode weekly. He is especially proud of his most recent acting credit doing voiceover work on the fifth and final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks.
Johnny Desjardins
ACTOR
Fat Apollo
comedian, local celebrity & MC Extraordinaire
Fat Apollo, Michael McCluskey, is a mixture of all things geeky and nerdy rolled up in a crunchy comedic shell. Donning Everlast boxing gloves, as well as a cape and shirt made of vintage Battlestar Galactica bed sheets (circa 1977) – Fat Apollo is a true multi-media juggernaut. The showbiz bug bit early with a stint as a Buster Brown shoe model, and appearances on the Reach for the Top teen show. Fat Apollo really made his mark in Victoria BC, as the special guest morning-man replacement on Q100.3 launching the briefly popular, guess that tune game, The Kazoo Monster.
Now residing in his hometown of Halifax, Fat Apollo is a charter member of the long running Geeks Versus Nerds comedy show. Voted funniest comedy night and best podcast in Halifax by The Coast’s readers, it is recorded live and has been featured five times at Hal-Con. In 2010, Fat Apollo debated Nathan Fillion as to superiority of the Millenium Falcon over the Serenity, and in 2011 defeated Teddy & Ajay of Innerspace, successfully proving Yoda was the better headmaster than Dumbledore. His one man show “Storytime with Fat Apollo” is a hit at conventions everywhere! Follow him on Twitter @realfatapollo and on Facebook Fat Apollo, celebrity.
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