Dawn Dininger is known for her role as the prisoner Rodian in the Book of Bobafett as well as the mom Rodian and the oboe playing Bith. She has puppeteered various characters in the Mandalorian series. The highlight being a part of the Grogu puppeteering team. Besides the Star Wars franchise, she has appeared as Monster Marie in One Mised Call. You may have also seen her performing in various commercials.
TaMara Carlson-Woodard is a Los Angeles-based practical creature effects artist and performer, specialty costumer, and puppeteer.
Since 2018, she has worked in a galaxy far, far away as a puppeteer and suit performer on THE MANDALORIAN and THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT where she appeared as everyone’s favorite blue, keyboard-playing Ortolan, Max Rebo.
TaMara is also part of the Emmy Award-winning team from Legacy Effects that brought Grogu (aka “Baby Yoda”) to life via fabrication and puppeteering.
Additionally, she contributed to the creation and performances of Frog Lady, the Gamorrean Guards, and countless background creatures and droids.
Prior to joining the STAR WARS universe, TaMara lent her talents and skills to over 60 feature films including PREY, AVENGERS: ENDGAME, CAPTAIN MARVEL, KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS, PARANORMAN, X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE, TRON: LEGACY, AVATAR, WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, JURASSIC PARK III, and TANK GIRL.
Ryan Hurst is an American actor, known for his roles as Gerry Bertier in Remember the Titans Sgt. Ernie Savage in We Were Soldiers Opie Winston in the FX drama series Sons of Anarchy Chick Hogan in Bates Motel Li’l “Foster” Farrell in Outsiders Beta in The Walking Dead and Hector Bonner in Bosch He portrayed the Norse god Thor in the 2022 video game God of War Ragnarök
Dean Cameron is an American television and film actor and musician. He is known for his role as Francis “Chainsaw” Gremp in the 1987 Mark Harmon comedy Summer School. He also played Dave Marshak in Ski School and Ski School 2 The Grande finale of Our Ski School and Summer School reunions at Pasadena Comic Con
Guest Announcement Ken Olandt is best known by the public (and by many sci-fi fans) for his starring role as Detective Zachary Stone on the television series Super Force . He was also very well known as the student by day, male stripper by night in the cult classic Summer Summer school.
Richard Horvitz is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his voice work in animation and video games. His voice credits include the original Alpha 5 on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Rangers Zeo and Power Rangers Turbo, Razputin in Psychonauts, Kaos in Skylanders, Billy and his father Harold in Grim & Evil and The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Grey Matter in Ben 10, Rodney in Squirrel Boy, Daggett in The Angry Beavers, Zim in Invader Zim, Orthopox in Destroy All Humans!, the Zoni in Ratchet & Clank, Bumble in Kinectimals, the Space Weaver in Broken Age, Kanchomé in Zatch Bell!, and Moxxie in Helluva Boss. Part of our Summer School Reunion stay tuned!
Dwayne Cameron is a New Zealand actor, writer, director and producer. Cameron is best known internationally for playing the lead roles of Bray on the teen drama series The Tribe and Tyzonn in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive.
Julie Brown began her career performing in nightclubs. She was a contestant on the game show Whew! (as Annie Brown). She started working on television with a guest spot on the sitcom Happy Days. She also appeared in the 1981 cult film Bloody Birthday. After a small role in the Clint East woodcomedy film Any Which Way You Can, comedian Lily Tomlin saw Brown at a comedy club and gave her her first big break, a part in her 1981 film The Incredible Shrinking Woman. Tomlin and Brown eventually became close friends. A string of guest starring appearances in a variety of television shows followed
Brown’s film career began in 1988 with the release of the film Earth Girls Are Easy, written, produced by, and starring Brown,[14] it was based loosely on a song by the same name from her debut EP. The film also starred Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis. Brown cast then-unknown comedians Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans.
She has continued to make television guest appearances and contributed voices to various cartoons, including Animaniacs (as the voice of Minerva Mink), Aladdin as bratty mermaid Saleen, and as the original voice of Zatanna in the Batman: The Animated Series cartoon. Prior to this, she also guest starred on a Tiny Toon Adventures episode as Julie Bruin, a cartoon bear version of herself, in which she guest-starred in her own segment Just Say Julie Bruin, a reference to her music video show. The Just Say Julie Bruin cartoon also was a music video show and in her segment Elmer Fudd guest-starred as Fuddonna, a parody of Madonna and a reference to Julie Brown herself regularly mocking her.
