GABRIEL BROWN (aka Black Gryph0n) is a singer, song-writer, musician, actor, animator, US Navy Veteran, and voiceover artist who has voiced “Becky the Loon” in Pixar’s Finding Dory, two lead roles on Geronimo Stilton and commercials for Endangered Species & SlugTerra (DHX/Nerd Corps). Notable singing credits include My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (5th season, Equestria Girls Friendship Games & the Songs of Harmony CD), Littlest Pet Shop, YoKai Watch and the theme song for Pac- Man & the Ghostly Adventures as well as popular YouTube songs "No Mercy" by the Living Tombstone and "Beep Beep I'm a Sheep" from Tomska's ASDF Movie. Gabe’s YouTube channel has over 1,280,000 subscribers, 150 million views and viral videos featuring his voice impressions. As a recording artist, Gabe has released: IMmortal (a collab with his brother Baasik); Space Available (featuring his entire family); and three albums with performing partner Michelle Creber - At Home (also feat. Andrea Libman), Tribute (celebrating the music of Michael Jackson) and Getting Stronger (original songs co-written and performed by Gabe, Michelle & Baasik). Gabe originally gained a following in the MLP fandom with songs like "Proud To Be A Brony", his "licious" animation series and his appearances on Bronies React. A US Navy veteran, Gabe spent three years touring the Eastern Hemisphere as lead singer for the 7th Fleet Band, Orient Express. He was awarded three Navy Achievement Medals for being a "superb" vocalist who performed songs in 12 languages for millions of people.

Eileen Montgomery [EileMonty] is a singer, actress, voice actress and YouTube entertainer from jolly ol UK! … also a nerd. Since she can remember Monty has had a passion for entertainment. From the age of 6 she studied the art of singing, dancing and acting and left University with a 1st class BA honors degree in Musical Theatre. Aside from being an entertainer offline, in the online world she takes what she loves to YouTube. Monty's YouTube channel 'EileMonty' [currently at 421k subs] is centred around singing, voice acting and impressions bringing into the mix her admiration for cartoons, games, Disney, Anime, and lots of other 'too school for cool' stuff such as colourful magical horse pones. She has lent her voice [singing/voice over] to multiple projects and worked with numerous YouTuber's and companies such as The Living Tombstone, TFS, Mashed, Beano, CBBC, ScrewAttack, Aphmau, Markiplier, AtlanticCraft and many more. You can hear Monty's voice in games such as 'Dust; An Elysian Tail' [Lady Tethys], 'A Hat In Time' [Mustache Girl & Queen Vanessa], 'Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs' [Winter the Elf] & the VR game 'Sprint Vector' [Nikki]. Recently she got to voice her first kawaii anime girl character in an official Anime english dub at Sentai Filmworks along with a wonderful cast/crew which she'll be announcing some point this year along with background characters in two others. Whilst at University Monty came across the cartoon show "My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic" and enjoyed it due to the impressive animation, wonderful music and fantastic voice acting which led her to voice in fun online projects such as "Buttons Adventures" by Jan Animations & ShadyVox [Buttons Mom], "The Moon Rises" by Duo Cartoonist [Singing Vocals], "Double Rainboom" [Bubbles Voice Match] and many more working alongside and with lots of awesome talented people within the MLP fandom. Monty is super excited to be performing and meeting everyone at Everfree Northwest! Let her know any song requests on Twitter @EileMonty for the Gala and she might possibly add them to her set <3 PEACE, LOVE & UNICORNS!

It’s finally come out, he couldn’t keep the secret forever. DUSTYKATT IS BRITISH!!! Ahem. Apologies for that unseemly show of emotion, but it’s true, dear fans – hidden in plain sight, Dustykatt was keeping from you his love of noshing Jaffa Cakes whilst sipping Earl Grey tea at 4 o’clock precisely each and every afternoon (and two cups when it’s raining – so, each and every afternoon). On Saturdays he loves to ride his stripped-down Vincent Black Shadow motorbike to do the “Ton Up” riding between cafes on the west side of London, the Ace Cafe being his final stop. After a smashingly delicious Steak and Kidney pie with a warm pint of local bitter, he’ll roll up round Buckingham Palace and meet up with Prince William for a quick game of cricket. A week later, after said cricket match has reached its satisfyingly incomprehensible conclusion, he always stops by the chippie for a fish supper (out of a newspaper of course) to recharge the old body. A quick stop by to see Britannia (She sends her love to EFNW by the way) before popping on home to his garage workshop to continue making hammered dulcimers out of cigar boxes. And of course, he’s of the considered opinion that My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is a jolly good show, wot wot! Cheerio!

As he’s always been proud to announce, loudly and at every available opportunity, Foal Papers is the very model of a modern US citizen. Born and raised on a cattle ranch in Ohio, Foaly soon realized his ambitions vastly outsized that 10,000 acres of fertile American heartland. After attending college on a football scholarship (the real kind of football, with pass interceptions and first downs and cheerleaders, not that pansy thing they do overseas without 30 pounds of armor), he took a job in construction, helping to restore a number of ancient historic buildings in Southern California – some of which even dated back all the way to the 1970s! Foaly first learned about My Little Pony while he was breaking stallions in Illinois, and although he was initially skeptical, he soon warmed to the show – especially to the sound work ethic and simple honesty of Applejack, who is by far his favorite pony next to Bulk Biceps. Outside of magical friendship horses, Foaly’s favorite animal is the bald eagle. He likes his brewskies cold, his coffee black, and his tea poured untasted down a drain, because what kind of American drinks tea? Not Foaly’s kind. He’s also the five-time champion of the Texas Burger-and-Chicken-Fried-Steak Eating Contest. When he’s not occupied working on his vintage Harley or overseeing his vast asparagus growing empire, you can find him hosting convention panels and MCing the charity auction with DustyKatt, who despite being from overseas and talkin’ real funny is actually a pretty good guy. For a limey. Photo courtesy of @CouchFromEQD.

Cynewulf is the child of esoteric werewolf sages who live somewhere west of Sarnath. She is mostly known in the fandom for writing fanfiction, having done so for about 7ish years at this point. Virgil and Dante were basically fanfiction, and with that in mind most of her work is an attempt to marry the sensibilities of “art house” and “fanfiction” and show how Dostoevsky and that 180K slowburn AU fic you’ve been writing have more in common than you think.

Rose Quill sometimes writes interesting stories and usually speaks in coherent sentences. Sometimes. She also owns a cat that personifies the idea of "Attention hog", but she loves him anyway.

Georg (1962-present) is an older author who was drawn into the fandom by his children, which is good because he can’t draw anything himself. To his great astonishment, he found that people like the odd sense of drama and humor in his stories such as Monster in the Twilight, The Lazy Dragon of Dragonvale, and Twilight Sparkle Lays an Egg. He is fairly harmless, despite his rugged good looks*, so if you find him wandering around the convention, be sure to introduce yourself and say hello. (He also has a terrible memory for faces, so you may have to introduce yourself several times) (*) Did we mention he likes footnotes? And writes his own bio?

TD got sucked into the pony fandom in 2013 and finished binge-watching the first three seasons just in time to get in arguments about how awesome Twilight becoming an alicorn was and how much Applejack and Rarity need to kiss. Since then, he has been drawn into the fanfiction community, and despite his initial resistance to writing fanfiction, has written over 40 stories, the most famous likely being two stories centered around the relationship between Twilight and Celestia - The Stars Ascendant and Forever and Again and Again - as well as the popular comedy Dying To Get There and The Collected Poems of Maud Pie. As an active reviewer, he has reviewed over 1,100 stories, and looks forward to reading the next 1,873 stories on his read later list.

Admiral Biscuit is ten meters tall. He’s currently a professional auto mechanic, and has held enough different jobs that he can tell you the difference between injection molding and extrusion molding. He’s known in the fandom for lovingly-detailed slice-of-life stories, and sometimes he goes off his leash and writes crackfics instead. He also writes entertaining blog posts about suffering at work. His shirts are comfy and easy to wear.

Cody "Vivid Syntax" Miller is a fanfiction author with fifteen years of experience writing and zero years of experience choosing memorable, easy-to-pronounce user names. When not working his day job as a senior data scientist, he serves as the Vice Chair for MLP-MSP F and the Programming Director for Ponyville Ciderfest and Whinny City Pony Con. In addition to micropublishing his epic romance fic "Sensation," he's written four (and counting!) scripts for live readings at MLP conventions, and he's honored to serve as a judge for this year's SCRIPTfest!

ACRacebest is a mechanical engineer best known for his Youtube series “Bronies React”. He specializes in destroying cars, trying to be funny and embarrassing his mother. With an accumulated 30 million views online, he continues to produce comedy sketches, vlogs, and more, while entertaining live audiences on multiple stages and venues. There’s also rumor that he’s fond of Zootopia. Keep an eye out during the convention as Race is known to vlog his adventures.

Toodles (aka Sara) is an artist in the MLP community and runs the Semi-Perfect Podcast alongside its founders ACRacebest and Saberspark. You can also find her on ACRacebest’s vlogs and various series like ‘The Low Budgets’ and ‘Bronies React.’

After joining the fandom in March of 2011—and watching Over a Barrel as his first brand new episode—The Illustrious Q was a fairly quiet member of the Brony fandom willing to just enjoy the show and let other more interested/energetic people make their mark in the fandom. Then the IDW Comic series was announced in July in 2012, and that completely changed. Absorbing any and all pieces of information about the comic series—in addition to buying everything related to that series in sight—The Illustrious Q quickly became one of the fandoms experts on the My Little Pony Comic world. Once he had started interviewing and submitting interviews of the IDW staff to Equestria Daily, it wasn’t long before he was invited aboard as their Comic Expert.

RoundTripGuy started his YouTube channel in January of 2018. He is known for his stick ponies and stallions titles such as “MLP in a Nutshell” and “MLP Season 8 in a Nutshell” He loves to sing, write, and collaborate with other artist and fans.

Fiaura The Tank Girl is well versed in many fandoms whether it be 40K, Anime, My Little Pony, or video Games she is prepared to take it apart scientifically to explain anything from physics to psychology. Today in the MLP Fandom she presents panels from a scientific point of view and does a significant amount of fiction writing, all safe for work, at around 15-30K words a week. She even has the Traveling Pony Museum to thank for physical copies of her version of Fallout: Equestria coming out.

As a fan of the show since late 2011, Igor (My Little Ties) has two long term goals in the fandom. The first is to create fashionable formal-wear accessories with which to allow ponies to be brought into nearly any working environment, and through this to ever so slowly elevate the fashion of the fandom at large. This may be a slow process, but it's certainly a worthwhile one. Now with the addition of two lasers, the inexhaustible pursuit of lasering ponies on all sorts of things is in full swing as well. The second is, accepting the inevitable AI singularity and our eventual cybernetic overlords, to help make sure that there is pony present there as well. To this end, he has built a virtual reality simulation of Ponyville, with close to a hundred AI ponies, and a slowly expanding series of quests. A demo of this fledgling virtual world will be running at his vendor hall table via an Oculus Rift and the magic that is modern technology. Donning the headset it is possible for anyone to temporarily abandon their current existence and take on the form of a diminutive equine avatar.

Part reviewer, writer, comic artist, and all-around nut, Silver Quill’s role is as mixed as his hippogriff character. Actively participating in the fandom since 2012 through fan comics, Silver gained an audience that followed him to YouTube. His “After the Fact” series takes a comedic look at individual episodes and themes running throughout the series. He serves as an editorial and review contributor to Equestria Daily and recently revived the “Pinkie Pie Says Goodnight” comic series. Some might call him a horse’s patoot, but they’re just stating biological fact.

Sarahndipity, a bubbly mermaid at heart, is a multi-genre and award-winning cosplayer, a makeup artist, and a licensed cosmetologist who has shared her passions within the MLP community for over seven years. Her cosplay accolades include a Best Novice Award for her Nightmare Moon cosplay, a Judges Award for her Princess Luna cosplay, and participating in Bronycon’s Grand Galloping Gala all six years. She feels honored to continuously be a guest at MLP conventions to share her love and knowledge of costuming, makeup, and acting with attendees. While Pinkie Pie is her staple, she has created many other pony costumes, including Aria Blaze, Starlight Glimmer, Queen Chrysalis, and more! She strives to use her education and experience to encourage others to try cosplaying, offering informative cosplay panels whenever she can and answering cosplay-related questions on her social media platforms. You can find more of her work on Facebook, YouTube and Patreon under “Sarahndipity Cosplay”, her Instagram @sarahndipitycosplay, and Twitter @sarahndipity212!

Shelby Sessler. Cosplayer. Voice Actor. Part-time Princess. Lover of Small Animals. Known for her versatility and general silliness, Shelby’s work is best known for her My Little Pony and Gravity Falls cosplays. She is a member of the Real-Time Fandub team and loves to learn and try new vocal techniques. Shelby has a degree in Music from the University of South Carolina and has taught music professionally for 7 years, has been sewing for 16 years, and has been doing makeup professionally for 3 years. She definitely knows what she is doing most of the time. And she is cool. Sometimes. In her off time she enjoys snuggling her Sugar Gliders, watching cartoons, and eating. You can follow her work on Facebook and Instagram under “Shelbeanie Cosplay” and “Shelbeaniecosplay” respectively.

Maddymoiselle is a passionate cosplayer and actress who has been sharing her love of cosplay with the community for five years! Maddy feels so very fortunate to have been able to travel across the country as a community guest to perform at different pony conventions - you may recognize Maddy from her many (many!) Sunset Shimmer cosplays, her big, pink, poofy Princess Cadence gown, or as a variety of other crazy characters in many different panels at different cons! She has had so much fun performing at Bronycon’s Grand Galloping Gala for the past two years, sharing her cosplay knowledge at educational panels, being goofy at in-character improv panels, and especially hosting in-character children’s events here at Everfree! When Maddy isn’t busy working on costumes she loves to take too many selfies, play Dungeons & Dragons with her friends, and cry over cute animals. To find out more about Maddymoiselle, check her out on her Patreon, her Instagram @maddy.moiselle, and her Twitter @maddy_moiselle!

Sprinkles and TC are a duo of traveling entertainers specializing in face paining and balloon art. They travel the magical land of America spreading smiles and friendship to everyone they meet!

CCG Fun and Friendship with Commentary is Magic! Commentary is Magic is thrilled to return to Everfree Northwest 2019, bringing all the joy and excitement of the My Little Pony Collectible Card Game with them! Since 2015, CiM has focused on organizing and running livestreamed CCG tournaments (with commentary, of course!) and new player demos at conventions both pony-focused and otherwise. Additionally, their regular broadcasts on Twitch have helped to provide players of all skill levels with helpful tips and tricks, featured duels between community members, and deck ideas for a variety of playstyles. In the last year, Commentary is Magic has taken the lead on Organized Play for the game including organizing the 2018 Continental Championships and heralding the return of Store Championships and other globally-organized events. This year promises to keep the hype train rolling, featuring a Core championship tournament as well as tournaments for Harmony and Beyond block, convention favorites like Team (Meme) Sealed and Draft, and a brand-new Cube event along with learn-to-play sessions, so come compete and join the fun!

Vocal Score is a fandom musician who has been on the scene since 2014. His unique covers and story-driven original songs garnered him a decent following in the online brony community. Vocal also works as a professional musician, having performed in multiple five star hotels and on cruise ships all around the world, and holds a BA(hons) Degree in Musical Theater from London College of Music. After nearly 7 years, Vocal's favorite thing to do is to perform at pony conventions, and has performed with members of the showcast, including Rebecca Shoichet and Kazumi Evans. Whether it's ballads at the gala or rocking out with his guitar, Vocal always gives his audience every last bit of his energy in his performances, so be sure to bring your best singalong voices!!

Born into a family of musicians and growing up all over the U.S., Nate Brown (Baasik) quickly learned the importance of expressing emotions through music. As an award winning classically trained pianist, he began composing at age 10 and fell in love with combining classical and jazz progressions with pop melodies and structure. Currently, Nate serves as a METOC officer in the U.S. Navy while at the same time running a record label with his business partner and musical compadre Bobby Nefzger. He is most well known for his collaborations with his older brother, Gabriel Brown (Black Gryph0n). Writing every day, he plans on relocating to Los Angeles in 2019 to pursue his career as a songwriter, artist, and producer.

Jesse "Nowacking" Nowack is an actor and writer, just like everyone else in New York City. As a trans voice actor, Jesse is able to take on both male and female roles and uses his position in the community to educate his fans on LGBTQ issues. He uses his Patreon to document his transition and give his followers a behind-the-scenes look at what his day-to-day experiences are. In the fandom, Jesse is known for voicing Vinyl Scratch in various animations and songs, including “Epic Wub Time,” “Pony Rock Anthem,” and “I Am Octavia,” as well as “All About That Bass Cannon” and “Horse Famous," two tracks he wrote for the community. He's also known for voicing LittlePip in Fallout Equestria: The Radioplay. As for non-horse things, Jesse can be heard playing Daxton in the dungeons and dragons podcast “Lost In The Multiverse,” as well as countless anime parodies including “Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series” and “Hellsing Ultimate Abridged.” He also voices Red in “Fist Master” and Huxley in “DieselDust.” He is an editor for TeamFourStar’s gaming channel and the YouTuber JacksFilms. He’s in some anime and a few video games and wrote a poetry book, but what he really likes to show off is his cat, Khaleesi! She's so cute! Seriously, look up his Instagram (@nowackinghellyeah) and go look at that good cat. He’s also working on his rap album and spends time being terrible at video games on the Twitch channel VeryExtremelyGood.