Luisa Wietzorek
Luisa Wietzorek is an actress, singer and dubbing artist – a true Berlin multi-talent!
She is the German voice of Scootaloo in “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” and ”Equestria Girls”.
You might also recognize her as “Tracer“ or “Ellie“ in the well known video games “Overwatch” and “The Last of Us 2” and as the German voice of Chloë Grace Moretz (“Kick Ass“), Emma Roberts (“Wir sind die Millers“), Emily Browning (“Sucker Punch“), among others.
Many also love her as “Korra” in “The Legend of Korra”, as “Mable” in “Gravity Falls”, as “Gon” in “Hunter x Hunter”, as “Taiga” in “Toradora” or as “Haley” in “Modern Family”.
As an actress, she was seen as “Rapunzel” in the ARD fairy tale adaptation in 2009 and the leading role in Udo Lindenberg’s cult musical “Hinterm Horizont” as the girl from East Berlin from 2011 to 2012.
In the youth series “Echt”, which was nominated for the Grimme Award in 2022, she warmly embodies the vibrant working mom Zara.
She broke international ground with the american film “Heritage- Ein dunkles Erbe” and is showing her great diversity and comedy talent in “Schloss Goldbach – Promis viel zu nah” since July 2022.
Celia Kaspar
Celia Kaspar is a talented character designer and illustrator from Germany and has designed characters like Hitch, Zipp and Pipp in the movie “My Little Pony: A New Generation”! Besides MLP she has worked on a number of different projects such as the game “City of Love”, the BBC/ Netflix adaptation of “Watership Down” or her personal project “Zillarama”, a comic series which showcases her own distinctive and unique art style.
Imalou
Lea Dabssi, widely known as Imalou, is not only a highly skilled artist in the fandom and boasts an impressive portfolio of art, but also works as a character designer at Boulder Media in the 3D animation space. From 2017 to 2020 she was involved in the movie “My Little Pony: A New Generation” and responsible for wonderful characters such as Sunny Starscout, Izzy Moonbow, Sprout and many more!
Jennifer Weiß
Jennifer Weiß is known for lending her voice to the German version of our beloved party pony Pinkie Pie!
Besides ponies, she can be heard in quite a few anime, such as Miliana from “Fairy Tail” or Rin Tohsaka from “Fate/Stay Night” or you might recognize her as the voice of Tikki in the animated series “Miraculous Ladybug”!
She does not only leave her marks in the film industry but also in numerous games:
For instance as Blue Moon in “Cyberpunk 2077”, Sylvia Woods in “Inazuma Eleven”, Purah in “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” and in “Hyrule Warriors”.
In addition, as a voice actress, Jennifer Weiß has a natural interest in languages and Japanese in particular.
Daniel Ingram
Daniel Ingram is an award winning song composer and writer from Canada and is known for over 100 songs in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, including beloved classics such as “The Smile Song”, “Winter Wrap Up”, and “This Day Aria”. Daniel is also the writer of all of the songs on the Equestria Girls series of movies and shorts including hit soundtracks for “Rainbow Rocks”. In 2017, Daniel wrote the songs and score for feature film “My Little Pony: The Movie” with well received songs like “Open Up Your Eyes”
Since leaving the My Little Pony franchise, Daniel has been in demand as a composer and songwriter, completing over 350 commissions on projects such as the new “Strawberry Shortcake”, “Luna Chip & Inkie” and “Rev & Roll” and “Lego Ninjago”
Additionally with the arrival of his first child, Eizo Ingram, Daniel has been inspired to start a new preschool music video brand “The Treebees” on YouTube in late 2021.
José Luis Ucha
José Luis Ucha is a spanish storyteller, writer and director. His debut as movie director and as such, a major influence to the newest generation of MLP, was in fact the movie “My Little Pony: A New Generation”!
Taking on such a big project requires a lot of experience and his last 20 years have been devoted to development, writing, production and direction of over 900 episodes of 20 finished animated projects.
Notable projects include the TV series “Suckers”, “Canimals”, or “Bernard” for which he has also received awards like Best Animation in Anima Mundi 2004 and Finalist Best TV Series Annecy 2005! Newest additions to the list from recent years are the shows “Zoobabu” and “Invizimals”.
Elley-Ray Hennessy
Welcome back Elley-Ray Hennessy to GalaCon!
Elley can put several respectable achievements onto her resume: Professional voice actress with more than 30 years of experience, stage performer in over 300 theatrical productions, acting teacher and last but not least, all-around force of nature. Since appearing in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic as Mistmane in Season 7, Elley has paid a visit to many conventions in the fandom and left her personal mark everywhere she went. And when she’s not busy keeping con staff on their toes, she also authors uplifting books and makes for an excellent cat sitter.
We were happy to invite her at Czequestria 2019, and we cannot wait to welcome her raw positive energy as well as her balloon collection back to GalaCon’s stage, and we hope you are just as excited for her return!
Until then, be sure to check out Elley on Twitter and her very own Website!