Our Special Guests are:
Stargate Guest of Honor:
Tony AmendolaTony was born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut. He attended Southern Connecticut State University and graduated in 1974. After that he went on to attend Temple University in Philadelphia, graduating in 1977 with a Master of Fine Arts Degree. In 1978 he decided to make the move to Los Angeles to find work in film and television. Though this move was originally meant to be temporary, he lives there with his wife to this day. Tony is a theater-trained actor, and he has a long history of stage performances. Some of these include: American Buffalo, as Teach; Othello, as Iago; Filumena, as Domenico; and The Taming of the Shrew, as Petruchio. Mr. Amendola is known best to TimeGate attendees as
Master Bra'tac in
Stargate SG-1, but fans will also remember him from his many roles in series such as Star Trek: Voyager, Charmed, The X-Files, Angel, Alias, Space: Above and Beyond, and many others.
Doctor Who Guest of Honour:
John LeveneThough Mr. Levene is best known for his role as
Sergeant Benton on
Doctor Who from 1969 - 1975, the good sergeant wasn't John's first role on the show. Nor his second. John first appeared (uncredited and unrecognizable) in the series in 1967's
The Moonbase in the guise of a Cyberman. His first credited appearance was as a Yeti in 1968's
The Web of Fear. He made his debut as
Corporal Benton later the same year in the Cybermen epic
The Invasion. Levene portrayed Sgt. Benton alongside three classic Doctors: Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, and Tom Baker. In addition to
Doctor Who, Levene has appeared in series like Z-Cars, UFO, Adam Adamant Lives!, and Carry on Laughing. His recent work includes the role of Reverend Bernie Shanks in CanniBallistic! (2002), as the Communications Captain in Automatons (2006), and is currently in preproduction on Satan Hates You, reprising his role as Bernie Shanks. This is Mr. Levene's first appearance in Atlanta.
Also Joining Us:
Louis Robinson currently makes his living as a professional singer/songwriter and can be found regularly performing and working with other singer/songwriters in the Atlanta area. Before coming to America, he worked for the BBC for many years, in a number of capacities in both television and radio. He wrote, produced, composed and directed many different productions. In the '70s, he worked in the film editing department, contributing to such shows as The Brothers (starring Colin Baker and Kate O'Mara), The Onedin Line, Doomwatch (created by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis, famous for also creating the Cybermen), and of course,
Doctor Who. After leaving the BBC for two years, he returned in 1984, as Program Associate of the hit show Telly Addicts. He worked on the entire run of that show, from the development of its pilot in 1984 to the final episode in 1996. Robinson is also a Sherlock Holmes expert, and enjoys giving presentations on that subject.
Jana Oliver is an Iowa native who now enjoys the sunny winters in Georgia. The writing virus caught up with her in 1998 and hasn't let loose since. When she submitted an idea to Dragon Moon Press for a genre-blended novel involving time travelers, shape-shifters and Jack the Ripper, the Time Rovers™ series was born. The first novel, Sojourn, was nominated for the prestigious Compton Crook Award, won the Gold Medal for Science Fiction/Fantasy in the Independent Publisher Book Awards and was selected for ForeWord Magazine's Editor's Choice Award for Fiction, the first time a science fiction novel was chosen for this honor. It also won four romance awards, including the Prism for Best Time Travel. The second book in the series, Virtual Evil, was published in Oct. 2007, to be followed by Madman's Dance in Fall 2008. A lover of single malt scotch and expensive chocolate, Jana lives in Atlanta with her husband and the occasional feline. Visitors are always welcome at her websites: www.janaoliver.com and at www.timerovers.com
Performers:
Atlanta Radio Theatre Company — Since 1984, ARTC has been performing, recording, and broadcasting dramatic audio—fully dramatized, fully sound-scaped audio drama, far beyond the readings and "audio books" you can find in every bookstore. Think of it as classic "old-time radio", as it would sound with today's technology and dramatic techniques.
The Mighty Rassilon Art Players is a local theatre company performing original plays with a science fiction beat to them. Well known for their continuing saga of a group of superhuman crime fighters, the Brothehood of Damn Sassy Mutants (that's BDSM for short!), MRAP will be performing a brand new work for TimeGate called "From TARDIS With Love" by William Alan Ritch and Shawn Carter.
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