SNAFU Con
Sierra Nevada Anime Fans Unite!
SNAFU Con is an anime convention in the Reno/Sparks area of Nevada. The 2025 con was October 31 - November 2, 2025. The 2026 con has not been announced yet.
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Guests of Honor
Christopher Escalante Index
Christopher Escalante is a voice actor, music composer, and on-screen personality for the YouTube channel Aphmau with over 24 million subscribers.As a voice actor, Chris has voiced many roles in anime produced by Funimation and Crunchyroll such as Kinji Ninomiya in The Dungeon of Black Company, Ken Sonozaki in Higurashi: When They Cry - Gou, Kozo Yukawa in Isekai Onsen Paradise, as well as Banished from the Heroes Party, A Couple of Cuckoos, The Prince of Tennis, Henkei Shoujo, Lovely Complex, Ishida & Asakura, and video game roles such as Batman in DC: Battle Arena, Rattrap in Transformers: Tactical Arena, The Nameless in Anima: Gate of Memories, Erik in the Seduce Me otome series, and many more.
As a composer and musician, Chris has written original music and songs for many films, video games, and artists that have reached the Billboard Charts at “#13 Classical Crossover Album” and “#14 Classical Album.” His soundtrack credits include the Seduce Me series, Battle Rage, ACE Academy, Blood of Redemption, the Twice the Dream film series, Mythica: The Necromancer.
Steve Warky Nunez, a.k.a. Warky T. Chocobo Index
Steve “Warky” Nunez is an award winning jack-of-all-trades in the entertainment industry.Hailing from New York, he started out narrating audio books for the blind and from there he branched out into all facets of media. He is widely known as the CEO of the award winning studio Ascendent Animation, and for his work on The Yaoi Xmas Carols, Sonic The Hedgehog, Wendy Pini's Masque of the Red Death: A Musical Thriller, Card-en-Ciel, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Kakushite! Makina-san!!, Ant-Man, Yandere Simulator, Aphmau, Henkei Shoujo, Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger Ix-2, Camp Buddy, Fire in His Fingertips, Everything for Demon King Evelogia, Unexpectedly Naughty Fukami, and Anima: Gates of Memories.
Warky looks forward to what the future has in store for him and hopes there will be singing and dancing along the way!
Laura K Welsh Index
Laura K. Welsh is a full-time voice actor currently based in LA, known for bringing dynamic characters to life in video games, ADR, commercials, and animation, and sometimes even while you’re stuck on hold! With over 15 years behind the mic, she’s voiced heroes, villains, creepy-crawlies, and everything in between for major studios and indie developers alike.Her background in performance began on stage, where she earned her B.A. in Theater Arts Performance from Catawba College in 2008, before transitioning her love of storytelling into the world of voiceover. Fun fact: her very first “gig” was as a volunteer reader for the Atlanta radio station for the blind, GaRRS.
Her credits include Genshin Impact as many NPCs, most notably Mini Durin; Valrika in Fantasian Neo Dimension, Visions of Mana, Catori and Venti in My Time at Sandrock, Pippa in Magic Mixies, and several spicy anime dubs by Ascendent Anime. The list goes on, and you’re welcome to try your best to surprise her with deep cuts when you say hi!
When she’s not in the booth, Laura can usually be found refining her craft, tending to her succulents and pollinator garden, playing JackBox with fellow creatives, or gently reminding Google that the K in her name is the key to finding the voice actor, not the indie pop singer.
Jade Griffin Index
Jade Griffin is a creative firestorm, a published author and illustrator whose stories span horror, fantasy, and adventure. Best known for her long-running fairytale-superhero webcomic 56 Shards and her darkly thrilling Amor Fati tabletop role-playing series for Call of Cthulhu, Jade’s work blends heart, myth, and mystery into unforgettable worlds.Jade has spent her life bringing vivid imagination to the page through novels, TTRPGs, and illustrations. She serves as Illustrator Coordinator for SCBWI Nevada, creates the column and comic “Author Ity” for WriteRiders, and recently completed art and design for the National Automobile Museum’s Pinewood Derby Lego Build-It Display.
Steven Yu Index
Steven Yu is an illustrator and comic book creator. Steven worked as a storyboard artist for major companies including Toyota, Taco Bell, and Google. Growing up, he was fueled by a steady diet of 80’s and 90’s action films, Jackie Chan movies, and martial arts themed manga. Those inspirations explode off the pages of his newest graphic novel, “JOAN,” a high octane martial arts medieval western reimagining of Joan of Arc, where the Saint is resurrected and given infinite ammo to seek revenge. His work can be found at sydstudiopresents.com
Shane Tay Index
Shane Tay is a multi-award winning actor from Utah, currently working at Ascendent Animation. Though a lifelong fan of anime, he studied for a career in the non-acting side of traditional theatre. Much to his surprise, his dream came true when he was picked up by Ascendent Animation. Shane never believed he would make it from fan to guest, but never giving up his whimsy paid off.He's worked on shows and movies including Makina-san's a Love Bot?!, Show Time! (1 & 2), Henkei Shoujo, Masque of the Red Death, XL BOSS, Ishida and Asakura, and Even in Dreams.
When he's not working, Shane enjoys building plastic models, laughing, and learning things he didn't know he didn't know. If you hear laughter that you can't locate, it's probably coming from him on the other side of the convention!
Angel Rose Index
Angel Rose is a singer-songwriter, actress, voice-over artist, and curve model whose work includes music, film, television, and live performance. Her on-screen credits include appearances in Ruthless, Sebastian Maniscalco: Is It Me?, Criss Angel’s Magic with the Stars, and America’s Got Talent. She has also lent her voice to radio and commercial projects, including Reno’s 93.7 Crazy 80’s.In addition to acting and voice work, Angel has been releasing a multi-part music series, The Fun-Da-Mentals of Make Believe, blending messages about mental health with fantasy and horror-inspired visuals. Her upcoming single and video, “Mask” (featuring Enigmana), debuts Halloween night. She created The Heart of Art Podcast to encourage artists to share their stories and help those who want to escape reality.
Angel is excited to host panels on acting, singing, and character development.
Kevin Frane Index
Kevin Frane has been a cornerstone in Japanese media localization for over two decades. A former producer at Sega of America, Kevin has brought countless stories to life through his translation and localization work across video games, anime, manga, novels, and academic publications.His impressive portfolio includes titles like 428: Shibuya Scramble, the original Yakuza series of video games, Yu Godai’s Avatar Tuner novels, along with numerous anime projects for Ascendent Animation including Unexpectedly Naughty Fukami, Kakushite Makina San, and Nukitashi.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Kevin continues to collaborate with creators and studios worldwide, bridging cultures and helping Japanese media reach fans across the globe.
Gavin Black Index
Local author Gavin Black is here to bring the experience he's gained with building worlds and getting them published. Growing up, he spent his formative years in the hospital due to a congenital lung malady, escaping into the fantasy and science fiction books by authors like David Eddings, J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert Heinlein, and Issac Asimov. He's written the YA fantasy novel Crop Burner: The Tale of Fearn and the Deamhon and the illustrated chapter book The Friend Exchange, with the fantasy novel Journey Through the Forgotten coming out soon. His books have drawn in readers with charismatic characters and unique worlds.
Spencer Stoner Index
Author and creator Spencer Stoner brings his storytelling magic to the convention floor! Known for the Ophelia Legacy series and the upcoming graphic novel Divine Intervention, Spencer is also the mastermind behind Con for a Cause, a local convention with heart. As the founder of Ohana Honua Productions, he’s produced the short film “Duplex” for the Carson Creepy Film Competition and is diving into audio dramas and an upcoming YouTube channel. Whether you’re a fan of thrilling stories or indie productions, Spencer’s work is not to be missed!
Bonnie Gordon (canceled) Index
No stranger to the world of science fiction and geek pop culture, Bonnie Gordon is an actress, singer, & voiceover actor who prides herself on being a “professional nerd” based in Los Angeles. Her VO credits include cartoons, video games, & anime such as Ship Computer, Gillian, & 10 other roles in Star Trek Prodigy on Netflix/Paramount+; Rainbow Mika in Street Fighter V; Silque in Fire Emblem Echoes / Three Houses; Cartoon Network’s Mighty Magiswords; Biko in Muhyo and Roji’s Bureau of Supernatural Investigation; Sam in Battlestar Galactica Deadlock; Bounce Man in MegaMan 11; Soujin in Ikki Tousen; Eva in Code Vein; 13 Sentinels; and many more! She was recently the voice of the Evil Queen in Snow White, an animated feature film released by The Asylum! You might also recognize Bonnie from the fantasy reality show The Quest on ABC! As a singer, Bonnie has performed all over the world and just made her West End debut in London as Holly Genaro in Die Hard the Xmas Parody Musical last December. She has been singing and guesting at comic cons all over the country with her nerdy parody act – taking top 40 hits and transforming them into nerdy, geektastic tunes about sci-fi & fantasy fandoms!
Bonnie is currently cast in a new live action sci-fi series set to shoot next year, and make sure to watch for her in the new horror thriller film The Vanishing Tour coming out in 2026!
Follow her @BonnieBellG on all social media (Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, etc.)