Star Wars Celebration Chicago: First guests announced

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Convention season continues to hot up as Star Wars Celebration announces its first wave of guests from the voice acting world as some of the heroes of Star Wars Resistance are added to the line-up.

And StarWars.com is pleased to announce that this April, Christopher Sean and Suzie McGrath, the talented voice actors who bring the pair to life, will make their first Star Wars Celebration appearance among a host of remarkable stars joining fans in Chicago!

Also attending this year for the first time will be Scott Lawrence, the voice behind Resistance‘s loving-but-stern father figure Jarek Yeager.

Returning to the Celebration floor will be James Arnold Taylor, the voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi on Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Taylor has long been an integral part of the saga, giving voice to stormtroopers, aliens, Imperials, and more in films including Star Wars: The Force AwakensRogue One: A Star Wars Story, and Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

And you can also meet the actor behind Imperial soldier Iden Versio in Star Wars: Battlefront II, Janina Gavankar, as well as Lucasfilm veteran Matthew Wood, who began his career with Skywalker Sound at the age 17, and has worked on every Star Wars film, The Clone Wars, and more, while voicing countless characters like General Grievous and hapless battle droids including the beloved R0-GR in LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures and the recently released LEGO: All Stars.

Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He currently contributes to Star Wars Insider, ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com and Starburst Magazine, having previously written for StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia and Model and Collectors Mart. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since it began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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Convention season continues to hot up as Star Wars Celebration announces its first wave of guests from the voice acting world as some of the heroes of Star Wars Resistance are added to the line-up.

And StarWars.com is pleased to announce that this April, Christopher Sean and Suzie McGrath, the talented voice actors who bring the pair to life, will make their first Star Wars Celebration appearance among a host of remarkable stars joining fans in Chicago!

Also attending this year for the first time will be Scott Lawrence, the voice behind Resistance‘s loving-but-stern father figure Jarek Yeager.

Returning to the Celebration floor will be James Arnold Taylor, the voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi on Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Taylor has long been an integral part of the saga, giving voice to stormtroopers, aliens, Imperials, and more in films including Star Wars: The Force AwakensRogue One: A Star Wars Story, and Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

And you can also meet the actor behind Imperial soldier Iden Versio in Star Wars: Battlefront II, Janina Gavankar, as well as Lucasfilm veteran Matthew Wood, who began his career with Skywalker Sound at the age 17, and has worked on every Star Wars film, The Clone Wars, and more, while voicing countless characters like General Grievous and hapless battle droids including the beloved R0-GR in LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures and the recently released LEGO: All Stars.

Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He currently contributes to Star Wars Insider, ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com and Starburst Magazine, having previously written for StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia and Model and Collectors Mart. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since it began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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