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.