Guest Announcement: Mary Elizabeth McGlynn

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn is an Emmy nominated voice over director and American Anime Award winning actor of original animation and foreign dubbing. She is also the singer for the Silent Hill game series and movies. Mary Elizabeth started as a voice director of Anime dubs with Cowboy Bebop, Digimon Tamers, Wolf’s Rain, Naruto, Naruto Shippuden, Stitch! and Glitter Force. She then moved on to dialogue directing for original animation and was nominated for an Emmy for directing the voices on Rapunzel’s Tangled Aventure.

She is currently voice directing The Legend of Vox Machina for Amazon Prime, Bugs Bunny Builders for Warner Bros. and Dreamworks Dragons: Nine Realms. She was also the voice director for GLAAD award winning She- Ra and the Princesses of Power, Saturn Award winning Star Wars Resistance for Disney/Lucasfilm, Lego Star Wars Holiday Special, Summer Vacation and Terrifying Tales, Doug Unplugs and Dragons: Rescue Riders for Dreamworks as well as Unikitty, Bunnicula, Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz and co-director for Green Eggs and Ham for Warner Bros. She also directed the VO on Billy Dilley’s Super Subterranean Summer and Penn Zero: Part Time Hero for Disney. She has directed the 6 Naruto Movies and received the SPJA award for best director for her work on the series Naruto and Naruto Shippuden.

She has also voice directed many video game titles which include Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, World of Warcraft, Heroes of the Storm, Diablo 3, Afro Samurai and Silent Hill. As an actress, Mary Elizabeth portrayed Major Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost In The Shell Innocence, Solid State Society and Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex for which she won the American Anime Award for Best Actress. She is currently playing Zahra in The Legend of Vox Machina, Coach Brunt in Carmen Sandiego, Freya Fenris and 4D-MIN for Star Wars Resistance, Cetrion in Mortal Kombat 11, Dynamite Watkins in OKKO and Connie’s Mom in Steven Universe. She is also known for playing Governor Pryce in Star Wars Rebels, Valkyrie in Lego Marvel’s Avengers, Talis in StarCraft II, Johanna the Female Crusader in Diablo III and Heroes of the Storm, Naoto in Persona 4, Queen Metalia in Salor Moon Crystal, Kurenai, Mei, and Lady Kurutsu in Naruto, Nina Williams in Tekken, Alex Wesker in Resident Evil and Brooha in Glitter Force.