Thanks to our wonderful GoFundMe contributors, we have one final guest announcement to make! Meet EDWARD RUSSELL - the Doctor Who Brand Manager from 2006 - 2017! If you watched it, read it, listened to it or collected it, he was involved in it. He was the main point of contact for Publishing, Licensing, Digital, Sales and Events, so he literally knows everything that has the Doctor Who name on it. He'll be joining JANET FIELDING, JASON HAIGH-ELLERY, JON DAVEY, and ROBERT ALLSOPP along with authors, artists, performers and more. Get your tickets now at www.wholanta.com!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to both Doctor Who and WHOlanta! 14 years ago today the first one-day TimeGate (the name we originally went by) was held -- quite coincidentally -- on the very same day that "Rose" made its debut. It's been a long, strange and wonderful journey since then, and we're glad you've all been with us on it! Don't forget that WHOlanta 2019 is coming up May 3 - 5, where you'll meet JANET FIELDING, JASON HAIGH-ELLERY, ROBERT ALLSOPP, and JON DAVEY, along with authors, artists, performers and more. Visit our website to see the latest! www.wholanta.com #doctorwho
GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Someone I've been wanting to have at our con for years and it's finally going to happen! GEORGES JEANTY is an award-winning artist for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse and IDW. You've seen his work in Deadpool, Superman, Gambit, Batwoman, Weapon X, Teen Titans, and more, but he's probably best known as the long-running artist on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. You'll see him on a lot of panels in our OtherWorlds track, but he's also a massive Doctor Who fan, so expect to see him on Doctor Who panels! Please visit www.wholanta.com to see all our fabulous guests (including Janet Fielding, Jon Davey and Robert Allsopp from Doctor Who). Make sure to purchase your tickets and book your hotel room while you're at it! @kabalounge
We are 100 days from WHOlanta 2019! You are 100 days from hanging out with Janet Fielding, Jason Haigh-Ellery, Jon Davey, Robert Allsopp, and many other of our beloved guests! Here's hoping you've bought your membership already!
If not, you can get them right here: https://purchase.growtix.com/e/WHOlanta_2019/
*GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT* JANET FIELDING is best known to Doctor Who fans for playing Tegan Jovanka, companion to the Fourth and Fifth Doctors, from 1981 to 1984. Her first season with Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor has just been released on Blu-Ray, and later this year you can watch her debut story—Tom Baker’s finale, “Logopolis”—also on Blu-Ray. She starred in numerous Doctor Who classics like “Earthshock”, “The Visitation”, “Arc of Infinity”, “Enlightenment” and “Resurrection of the Daleks.” She was on hand for the show’s 20th Anniversary in “The Five Doctors” and turned in brilliant performances in “Kinda” and “Snakedance.” She has revisited Tegan in numerous Big Finish original Doctor Who stories. She was born in Brisbane, Australia and had originally planned to become a journalist. After moving to England to break into acting, she found roles in Hammer House of Horror, Minder, Shelley, Blind Justice, Parnell and the Englishwoman, and others. In 1991 she became the administrator of Women in Film and Television UK, an organization dedicated to advancing professional development and achievement for women working in all areas of film, video, and other screen-based media. She became an actors’ agent, and in fact represented Paul McGann when he took on the role of the Eighth Doctor in 1996. She is currently the Project Coordinator for Project MotorHouse, a charity based in Ramsgate which aims to modernize the old motor museum into a multi-use venue featuring offices, bars, a restaurant, a café and cinemas, where local youths will have a chance to learn from successful businesses. She organized two Doctor Who events as fundraisers for Project MotorHouse, with appearances by many of the Doctors, including Peter Capaldi. #doctorwho #doctorwhocompanions #janetfielding
