Bay College Announces Celebrity Guests at BAY-CON!

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By Dave Laur
Published December 18, 2023

Bay College’s Campus Activities Board is proud to announce three celebrity voice actor guests for RETURN of the BAY-CON on April 20, 2024!  Vanessa Marshall, Anna Graves, and Rachael McFarlane will be featured at this year’s BAY-CON event.

Vanessa Marshall is best known for voicing Hera in Star Wars Rebels, Wonder Woman in Harley Quinn, Gamora in Guardians of the Galaxy, and Black Canary in Young Justice.  In video games, she voices Sheeva in Mortal Kombat 11, Olga in Metal Gear Solid 2, and Jan Ors in Star Wars: Jedi Knights II.

Anna Graves has starred in Star Wars: The Clone Wars as Duchess Satine, as well as voicing characters in Star Wars Rebels, Voltron, and Big Mouth.  Her video game work includes Marvel’s Avengers, The Last of Us: Part II, The Elder Scrolls Online, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Metro Exodus, Princess Leia in Disney Infinity 3.0, Female Demon Hunter in Diablo III, COD: Modern Warfare (1, 2, & 3), and Marvel Super War as FRIDAY.

Rachael MacFarlane began her voiceover career working on Cartoon Network’s Johnny Bravo, and has been voicing animated characters ever since.  She is the voice of Hayley Smith on the long running hit animated sitcom American Dad, and has been a guest star on Family Guy hundreds of times. Rachael’s voice can be heard on The Owl House, Fancy Nancy, and The Orville, to name a few.

RETURN of the BAY-CON lands at the Escanaba campus of Bay College on Saturday, April 20, 2024, with doors opening at 10:00 am EST at the Joseph Heirman University Center.  This pop-culture event features over 100 tables of vended vintage and modern toys, video games, vinyl records, comic books, pop-culture art, and so, so much more!  The event also features live music, a cosplay contest, a trivia contest from Nerdology, and much more!

Sponsored by Bay College’s Campus Activities Board student organization, RETURN of the BAY-CON is a fundraiser for the college’s student organizations and athletic teams.  The event is FREE, although a donation of $5 for those 10 and over is recommended.  Vendor goods, food, and t-shirts will be available for purchase. More information can be found on the RETURN of the BAY-CON event page on Facebook.

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