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We Heart Performing for Japan Event Information

We Heart Performing Flyer

We Heart Japan hosts an evening of special guests performing live to benefit Japan earthquake and tsunami relief efforts.

Award-winning singer & songwriter/actress Mari Iijima will be performing live on stage.
TV stars Dan Southworth and T.J. Rotolo will do an audience participation live demo of a sentai fight scene and choreography!
The English cast will reunite to do a live stage reading of an episode of the classic anime “Cowboy Bebop.”
Raffle drawing for special prizes.
Free drinks and snacks provided by Taylor’s Tonics, Hi-Chew and more!
More information coming soon!

All proceeds for the event will be donated to Japan NGO Earthquake Relief and Recovery Fund (http://www.jcie.org/earthquake).

Date: October 1, 2011 (Saturday)
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Theater of Arts Arena Stage, 1625 N. Las Palmas, Hollywood, CA 90028
Price: $40 for general seating, $60 for premium seating + gift bag

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LIST OF GUESTS

Beau Billingslea	Beau has voiced many animated characters including Jet Black in Cowboy Bebop, Ogremon, Sagitarimon, and Parrotmon (in the Digimon series). He was series narrator for Suicide Missions/Dangerous Missions and Hero Ships on the History Channel. He has voiced many characters in video games. Listen for Beau voicing Abraham Douglas in War of the Worlds: Goliath, soon to be released.Beau’s film credits include Vacancy 2, Rebound, Rise: Blood Hunter, Halloween H2O, My Favorite Martian, Leprechaun: Back to tha Hood, The American President, Gale Force, Final Voyage, Final Justice, Out For Blood, Night Shift, Ten to Midnight, Real Genius, The Blob, In the Army Now and Surface to Air.You may have seen Beau walking the green line in two Fidelity Investment commercials, on the golf course and in the Big Apple. Or greeting a six foot ant at his front door in an Orkin commercial. Or perhaps, as Kevin Neelon’s ex-wife’s new husband on “Weeds.” Maybe, as Grandpa Grant on the Nickelodeon series, “Just Jordan” or doing the ferret dance as the Mayor in “Hannah Montana: The Movie.” Currently Beau can be seen as Judge Douglas on TNT’s “Franklin & Bash.”
Steve Blum	With literally hundreds of V/O credits to his name, Steve Blum is best known as the voice of “Spike Spiegel” from Cowboy Bebop, “Wolverine” from several incarnations of X-Men (animated movies, games, the Wolverine and the X-Men TV Series and The Super Hero Squad Show), “Tom” (the robot host) from Cartoon Network’s Toonami, “Green Goblin” from the Spectacular Spiderman series, “Heatblast,” “Vilgax” and “Ghostfreak” from Ben 10, “Grayson Hunt” (Bulletstorm) “Grunt” (Mass Effect 2), “Tank Dempsey” (Call of Duty), “Oghren” (DragonAge),“Vincent Valentine” (Final Fantasy VII), “Leeron” (Guren Lagann), the voice of 7-11, dozens of Digimon and a gigantic list of other characters from Anime, Video Games, TV and Film. Currently he’s working on the new super-charged CGI series Transformers:Prime, playing the sometimes delusional but always deadly Decepticon Starscream!! Can’t talk about the piles of other projects yet, but there’s MUCH more to come! Check out more of Steve’s stuff at http://www.steveblumvoices.com/or at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0089710/
Melissa Fahn	MELISSA FAHN is the voice of EDWARD on COWBOY BEBOP. She has voiced hundreds of characters in the animation/anime world, including GAZ on INVADER ZIM, RIKA on DIGIMON TAMERS, NINAMORI on FOOLY COOLY, HARUKA on NOEIN, KRISTY on DIGIMON DATA SQUAD, TIA on ZATCH BELL, BOUQUET on BLUE DRAGON, JESSICA on GORMITI, SASHA on STITCH, the voice of BETTY BOOP, the voice of HELLO KITTY….and so many more. She was also an original cast member of the Broadway sensation WICKED and in the original cast of the Los Angeles production of WICKED at The Pantages…she also understudied and performed the role of GLINDA! Melissa is starring in the soon-to-be-released film TICK TOCK BOOM CLAP and her album AVIGNON has been well received worldwide! www.melissafahn.com (Official website)
Mari Iijima
Wendee Lee
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
Terence J. Rotolo	Terence has had a long time love of anime since his elementary school days of rushing home to catch “Battle of the Planets” and “Starblazers”, and is proud to be a part of this event having personally experienced the devastation of his hometown of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. His breath of experience ranges from acting, to performance capture, stunts, choreography, and voice over; and has worked on such projects as “Master and Commander; The Far Side of the World”, “The Scorpion King”, “The Run Down”, “24″, “Kamen Rider; Dragon Knight”, “Beetle Borgs”, not to mention multiple seasons of trying to destroy the world, save the world and everything in between on multiple seasons of “Power Rangers”. He’s also done lead characters and choreography for such games as “Dead Rising”, “Devil May Cry 4″, “Resident Evil 5″, “The Borne Conspiracy”, and a number of major titles soon to be released.
Stephanie Sheh	Stephanie Sheh is known for voicing roles such as Hinata in “Naruto,” Orihime in “Bleach,” Mikuru in “The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya,” Eureka in “Eureka 7,” and Mamimi in “FLCL.” She’s currently voicing in Audrey in “Gundam Unicorn” and Yui in “K-on!” in which she gets to go to conventions singing in Japanese. When she was in college Stephanie spent her free time learning anime theme songs phonetically and singing them. She also works as a voice director for the videogame franchise “Resident Evil” in which she’s the current voice of Rebecca Chambers. For more information about Stephanie’s career follow her on twitter or join her facebook fanpage.
Dan Southworth