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Grant Moran:
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Grant Moran has been a writer, story editor, producer and executive in television animation for 15 years. A graduate of Dartmouth College and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he started out as a director and dramaturge in professional theatre, developing new works at such places as the Sundance Institute, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and the New York Theatre Workshop. He spent six years at Warner Bros. Animation as a staff writer-producer, contributing to the development and production of such award-winning shows as Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Batman: The Animated Series and Damon Wayans. Waynehead. He worked both sides of the desk at Nickelodeon, serving first as Executive Director of Current Series, overseeing production on Rugrats, The Wild Thornberrys, Rocket Power, and As Told By Ginger, and then as Head Writer/Co-Producer on Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius. He has worked in Anime in various forms including adapting 84 episodes of Lupin the 3rd for Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, all of last year's run of Viewtiful Joe on KidsWB, and produced Megaman: NT Warrior for the latter as well. He's recently finished the pilot for the Aniplex-Upper Deck series Kiba.
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Tom Wayland:
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Tom Wayland is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in acting. Wayland got his start performing in various theatrical productions ranging from Hamlet, to Jesus Christ Superstar, to Stomp. After a stint as a rock star roaming the East Coast's rock clubs, Wayland ran out of money and had to get a job -- so he started work at Central Park Media. In more than four years at CPM, Wayland has produced more than 200 different anime programs before moving on to voice directing on such titles as Alien Nine, The World of Narue, Shootfighter Tekken and Ichi the Killer. In 2004, Wayland founded TripWire Productions and has gone on to direct numerous dubs for home video and TV broadcast including Mew Mew Power and Magical Do Re Mi seen nationally Saturday mornings on Fox. Wayland has also become much more active as an actor landing recurring roles in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as Jammerhead, Mew Mew Power as Minimew, GI Joe Sigma Six as Stormshadow, Magical Do Re Mi as Oliver, Marvin and Reanne's Dad, One Piece as about 8,000 different villains and pirates and several straight to video releases including Knight Hunters, Gokusen and Shura no Toki.
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David Williams:
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David Williams has been with ADV Films from the company's beginning 15 years ago when his living room was used as a production facility for their first title, Devil Hunter Yohko. He currently works in a black ops group which rumor claims has some involvement in "content acquisition" though he will neither confirm nor deny said rumor. It is known that in the past he has worked as an ADR Director on several titles including D.N. Angel, Angelic Layer, Pretear, Najica, Aquarian Age, the original Nuku Nuku OVAs, Dirty Pair, and many others. As a DVD Producer he was the creative force behind the AD Vid-notes and Jiggle Counter features on several ADV titles and was intimately involved the authoring and production of hundreds of DVDs. As a company representative, he appears in online forums and, along with his co-director and traveling companion . the Suck Bunny, attends anime conventions where he is often seen giving out DVDs and manga to deserving (or sometimes just insane) fans. Meeting and talking with fans is something he really enjoys as it gets him out of the office and he's happy to talk about the industry in general or ADV in particular. His anime roots run deep as long before there was an anime industry in North America, he was simply a fan, helping to create and organize anime clubs and screenings at conventions in his hometown of Houston, Texas.
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