Jordan

Dave is currently celebrating the release of his autobiography “My Life With Animatronics. Movies, Puppets and Beyond” with unsigned copies available from Barnes & Nobel online stores and signed copies from his management team at Coolwaters!

A second generation puppeteer, David Barclay was hired by Lucasfilm and Stuart Freeborn to work on “The Empire Strikes Back” as part of the Yoda build crew. While on set, one of the assistants to Frank Oz, the chief puppeteer for Yoda, became ill and David was selected to replace her. In doing so, he started a career as one of the most sought after puppeteers in both Hollywood and England. Not only did David get to assist Frank Oz on Yoda, but he also received the opportunity to fully operate the Yoda puppet for a week when Frank was forced to return to his work on “Sesame Street” and Frank nominated David to take over as chief puppeteer. His many accomplishments on “The Empire Strikes Back” were not forgotten as he was chosen to be chief puppeteer for the most disgusting creature in the “Star Wars” universe, the galactic gangster Jabba the Hutt in “Return of the Jedi”. David’s work in these two memorable films lead to a further collaboration with Frank Oz in “Labyrinth”, “The Dark Crystal”, and “Little Shop of Horrors”. His growing resume enabled David to garner a coveted position as chief puppeteer for the Amblin film “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”. He became Academy Award Finalist for his work on “Cats and Dogs” and has worked on dozens of films including “Muppet Christmas Carol”, “Lost in Space”, “The Flintstones: Viva Rock Vegas”, “Snow Dogs”, “Stuart Little 2”, “Team America”, “Looney Tunes Back in Action”, “Cats and Dogs 2”, “The Muppets”, “Muppets Most Wanted” and “Where The Wild Things Are”

Amber Lee Connors is a professional voice actress for anime and video games. Her anime credits include Komi Can’t Communicate (Komi) ; Journey of The Wandering Witch Elaina (Elaina); Attack on Titan (Pieck); JuJutsu Kaisen (Mei Mei); Demon Slayer (Nakime);  Keijo!!!!!!!!(Nozomi Kaminashi); My Hero Academia(Ms. Joke); Fairy Tail (Brandish μ); RWBY(Vernal); JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: STONE OCEAN (Gwess); Undead Unluck (Gena); Boruto (Delta); Citrus (Mei); Sailor Moon: Cosmos (Sailor Chi); Kakegurui Twin (Sachiko); Seven Deadly Sins (Gelda); Chtholly (World End); Love Tyrant (Akane); Combatants Will Be Dispatched (Snow); One Piece Film Gold (Baccarat) The Rising of The Shield Hero (Ost); Re:ZERO (Fortuna); A Silent Voice (Miki); Myriad Colors Phantom World (Mai Kawakami); Dragon Ball Super (Dercori) and many more. 

Notable video game roles include Genshin Impact (Furina); Five Nights At Freddy’s (Toy Chica); Guilty Gear: Strive (I-NO);  Borderlands 3 (Female Psycho); Trails of Cold Steel (Shirley Orlando & Roselia); Master Detective Archives: Rain Code (Halara Nightmare); Goddess of Victory: Nikke (Mary & Maxwell); Final Fantasy Brave Exvius: War of the Visions (Lilyth); Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves (B. Jenet); Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis (Aina); Cookie Run: Kingdom (Rye Cookie); Fire Emblem Heroes (Vika); Unicorn Overlord (Hilda); Rune Factory 3 Special (Sakuya); Tower of Fantasy (Tsubasa); Aether Gazer (Athena); Arknights (Delphine) and many more!

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David Forman

David Forman is a stunt performer, stunt coordinator, and actor known for his role as Leonardo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and his ongoing list of stunt work. His credits range from James Bond films to Star Wars. Recent works include A Quiet Place: Day One, Andor, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and F9: The Fast Saga.

Leif Tilden

Leif Tilden is from Boston, Massachusetts and left for NYC to study at NYU at Tisch School of the Arts where he studied Experimental Theatre, Dance and film. He has worked on several projects with the Jim Henson Company such as the ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ 1 & 2 (‘DONATELLO), and the TV series ‘Dinosaurs’ (ROBBIE SINCLAIR). His other character credits include ‘Ace Ventura 2’, ‘George of the Jungle’, ‘Born to be Wild’ and ‘Buddy’ – playing a Gorilla in all four. He also performed the Cyclops character in ‘Monkeybone’, as well as the evil alien Invader in ‘Life Form’. Recently, Leif directed a feature film entitled, ‘Life at These Speeds’ starring Tim Roth, Billy Crudup, Stefanie Scott, Peter Coyote, Melanie Lynsky and Graham Rogers.

Michelan Sisti (Micha)

Michelan Sisti (Micha) is thankful to have a long and varied career as musician, actor, director and puppeteer. From Broadway to Hollywood, his favorite performances include: Michaelangelo, in “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I & II”, Charlene Sinclair, in the television series “Dinosaurs”, all of his work with the Muppets, and Tol, in the “Star Trek: The Next Generation” episode, “Bloodlines”. Yes, Micha was a Ferengi! How cool is that?

Josh Pais

Josh grew up in NYC’s infamous Alphabet City, 7th Street between C&D. His father was a theoretical physicist who worked with Einstein, his mother a poet and painter. His first lead in a movie was playing Raphael in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Often referred to as, “That guy,” Josh has acted in over a hundred movies and TV shows. He is known for his many recurring TV roles including Showtimes’ Ray Donovan as Stu Feldman, Netflix’s Maniac, Younger, Law and Order as Hank Abraham, as well as such shows as High Maintenance, The Good Wife, Damages, Star Trek Deep: Space Nine, The Sopranos, and early on as the Modelizer on Sex and The City. He is currently on HBO’s new series, Mrs Fletcher with Kathryn Hahn.

Josh is well known for his stand out performances in independent and mainstream films. Currently he can be seen in the record breaking Joker as Hoyt Vaughn – Joaquin Phoenix’s character’s boss. Also in theaters now he stars opposite Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Alec Baldwin and Willem Dafoe in Warner Bros Motherless Brooklyn, directed by Edward Norton.

Comic Artist

X-Men, Spider-Man

CHRIS BACHALO is internationally recognized as one of the most popular artists in the comic industry. His body of work covers a wide spectrum of genres ranging from the critically acclaimed Sandman, Shade:The Changing Man, Death:The High Cost of Living and Batman series for DC to Marvel’s Doctor Strange, Uncanny X-Men, The Amazing Spider-man and Generation X– the first title from Marvel that was adapted into a live action film for Fox. The short story “The Wheel” written by Sandman and American Gods writer Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Chris featured the Death character and was inducted into the Library of Congress in 2003. It was created as part of a tribute to 911. His cover work for the title Hunter, The Age of Magic for DC was included as part of a New York gallery show for the Society of Illustrators. He also teamed with Stan Lee on DC’s Stan Lee re-imagines the DC Universe featuring Catwoman and illustrated the cover for the Hollywood Reporter celebrating his 75th birthday. 

Chris also co-created two creator owned properties. He collaborated with Jeph Loeb, on the Vertigo/DC, titled The Witching Hour and co-created with Ben Ten’s Joe Kelly the retro-futuristic, Sci Fi epic, Steampunk, published by Cliffhanger /DC.

In addition to his work in comics, Chris’ artwork has graced the covers of The Hollywood Reporter and PSM (PlayStation magazine). Other clients have included Activision, Oakley, Taco Bell, Stuff magazine, Mad Magazine, Upper Deck, Disney, Neiman Marcus, EA and Def Jam records. He was also commissioned to do artwork that was transformed into a 50’ X 80’ mural at the Marvel/Universal theme park in Orlando, Florida.

He is currently working on covers for Indy publishers  such as Bad Idea and Boom as well as projects for DC comics and Wizards of the Coast.

Award-winning Comic Book Creator

The Goon, Godzilla, Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?

Eric Powell is an Eisner, Ringo, National Cartoonist Society, International Horror Guild, and Inkpot award-winning cartoonist. While he has worked for every prominent American comics publisher on titles such as Superman: Bizarro World, Big Trouble in Little China, Marvel Monsters, and Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters, the majority of his career has been focused on creator owned comics. Most notably his series The Goon and his work through his own imprint, Albatross Funny Books. Recently he has collaborated on the graphic novels “Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?” And “Dr. Werthless” with prominent true crime author Harold Schechter.