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Lowenthal looks forward
ness I’m in!”
to them.
Platt will be
“I enjoy connecting
among the other
with the fans at a level
celebrities ready
that I can’t when I’m
to meet with visi-
just doing the work,”
tors. She grew up
Lowenthal says about
in Chelsea, where
his Youmacon appear-
her parents still
ance. “I work in sort of
live, and has been
a vacuum otherwise. It’s
on TV’s Castle,
nice to hear from the
Hawaii Five-0 and
people who are actually Circus-performance troupe
Parenthood.
enjoying (and sometimes Illuminair will be at Youmacon.
Other panelists
not enjoying!) the work
include Lisa Ortiz,
I do.
U.S. director of
“As long as I’m telling stories, I’m
Pokemon; Ian Sinclair, voice actor whose
happy [while being] in a very ephem-
popular roles include Space Dandy in
eral business. Although my union is
the series of the same name; and Todd
currently on strike against video game
Haberkorn, a voice actor heard as Natsu
producers — may it be short-lived —
in Fairy Tail.
I’m constantly looking for the next job,
“We bring more guests and more
whether that’s television, film, theater,
unique guests than any other conven-
writing or voiceover.”
tion of our genre,” says Kollin, who has
Lowenthal, whose TV credits include
arranged for an exhibition hall with
Hawaii Five-0 and Criminal Minds, has
more than 100 vendors of relevant goods
been a fan of Japanese culture and his-
(toys, figurines, models, video games)
tory since his Nashville childhood. It
from around the world and a gallery
started with anime and Godzilla movies
setting with some 100 artists displaying
and went on as he spent several years
their projects. A Live Action Mario Party,
working and studying in Japan during
Cosplay (wearing costumes), Youma
and after college.
Idol, Anime Name That Tune and a
Remembering reading a book called
Charity Masquerade Ball are among
The Japanese and the Jews and find-
some of the Youmacon favorites.
ing that very fascinating as it pointed
“There are activities that we have
out shared cultural characteristics,
orchestrated ourselves, including guest
Lowenthal has accepted a number of
showcases with themes, live-action par-
roles that have kept him in touch with
ties and costumed characters at play in a
his religious heritage.
game of chess.”
“I was in a play produced by the
Kollin, who handles the contracts
Jewish theater in Los Angeles; it was
with business owners and unions for
called Eva Peron and the Fourth Reich,”
Youmacon, defines the event as only one
says Lowenthal, who has written books
phase of his professional commitments.
on his craft as well as fictional subjects
He plans the Midwest Media Expo and
and runs a production company with his runs both Anime Tailors, which makes
wife, Tara Platt.
costumes and accessories, and Detroit
“Like many German-speaking actors
Leather Company, which designs and
in Los Angeles, I’m often asked to audi-
handcrafts leather goods.
tion for the roles of Nazis in film and
“I love putting on community-based
TV. Nobody puts the evil of the Nazis on programming,” he says. “One of my goals
display quite like a Jewish actor. Because has been bringing tourism to Michigan;
I also speak French, I once voiced a
and as I begin thinking of the next
French mercenary hell bent on extermi-
Youmacon, I think in terms of its cel-
nating Nazi vampires. It’s an odd busi-
ebrating its bar mitzvah year.”

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