Our Guests

SonicBlu

SonicBlu is described as a "partying prehistoric predator" to reflect his overly outgoing personality as a Dilophosaurus within this fandom of ours. He has been in the furry fandom since 1997, but was one of those types of people that was born to be furry--and he can show proof of this statement. He's been a performer on stage since he was a hatchling of age ten. He made his debut furry convention stage performance at Anthrocon 2003, and has been performing at various conventions ever since. When not performing, SonicBlu is an author and parody music recording artist by day (having released 8 albums to date), and an internet radio broadcaster by night. He feels that he is rather easy to get along with, and he can take control as a level-headed leader in organizing stage presentations and skits based on his own experiences of performing. SonicBlu is also a voice actor and puppeteer, and is the director, writer, editor, and lead voice/performer for a Saturday night puppet show called Oh! Pawpets! which has been running since the spring of 2009. To date, SonicBlu provides over 30 voices between 17 puppets (since one puppet is a 3-headed dragon, and one puppet has a severe case of memory loss, and can never remember who he was in the previous week, and has the tendency to change not only his personality, but also his voice.)

You can find more information on SonicBlu at:

• Oh! Pawpets! (puppetry/voice acting/film productions)
• Time Machine Show (radio show)
• WikiFur (details, history, credentials, etc.)
• FurAffinity
• IMDb (filmography)

Luthien Nightwolf

Originally from Kansas, Luthien Nightwolf now resides in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma with her mate Theron. She supports herself entirely from commissions, and can proudly say she loves what she does for a living! She is an Art Institute of Phoenix graduate, but has been drawing since she could hold a crayon and has had almost 30 years of practice to get where she is today.

As an avid fan of Lord of the Rings and all things Faerie, Luthien has her roots firmly planted in Fantasy art. She happily applies this theme to the furry world, and also enjoys creating burlesque pinups and spiritual or tribalistic artwork for her commissioners. She does everything from sketches and badges, all the way up to large full color pieces.

Luthien first discovered furry art in 2007, but didn’t find her way into the fandom until 2009, when she moved to Oklahoma and met up with the local furs. Her first convention was Oklacon 2009, where she became instantly hooked on the con buzz, and is really excited to be taking a larger part in Wild Nights 2012. She’s an elusive creature and a bit shy, but very friendly, so if you see her, be sure to come up and say hi!

Luthien Nightwolf's art can be found at on FurAffinity.

Ned Wilkinson

Ned Wilkinson graduated from the Berklee College of Music in 1987 with a degree in Commercial Arranging, or "notes on paper for fun and profit", and an emphasis in trumpet performance. He has spent the ensuing 2 1/2 decades trying to find more interesting things to do than simply draw notes on paper and play trumpet.

Ned spent 24 1/2 years as the bassist/multi-instrumentalist of the comedy/parody vocal trio "Nick, Ruell, and Ned The Band" (he grimly tolerated the idea that his last name had been changed to "The Band"), while also performing for several seasons at Silver Dollar City and providing musical direction for The Haygoods. He produced albums for members of the Cajun Connection, and arranged and played wind instruments for various productions by The Osmonds. He produced hundreds of jingles for regional radio and TV and sang backgrounds on thousands more.

Thirteen years after picking RhubarbCub as a screen name in response to the then-new "bear" scene, he watched "that infamous CSI episode" and immediately knew that the writers had gotten something wrong because who would bother going to such a grim, dreary event as "PAFCon"? In October 2009, enlightened by his own recent plunge into the fandom and spurred on by a looming deadline, he wrote what would become the opening song to "Julie Bunny Must Die!", his furry-influenced stage musical which garnered positive reviews at the Orlando Fringe Festival 2010 despite his having never attended an actual convention. Wild Nights 2011, his second convention, was the first of what he hopes will be a long and distinguished list of conventions to host "the bunny".

Ned lives in Orlando with his husbear Chris and his kittycat Rosalynn. He teaches private instrumental music and continues to do production work while exploring his new direction as a musical theater writer. "The bunny" continues to play the Fringe circuit, and his new project, "Fosgate: Ferret Loan Officer", will be produced later this year at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater.

Wildwolf A.K.A. Chad Laubach

Wildwolf was born in Emmaus Pennsylvania on December 24th 1975. At an early age he was interested in cartoon animals, growing up with cartoons such as Scooby Doo, Looney Toons, Disney cartoons, and various others. By the time High School hit, cartoons such as Tailspin, Gargoyles and Tiny Toons inspired him to start drawing the characters and join forums. One of which was called "The Gathering", a Disney Gargoyles fan forum. He met a couple of "Furries" on there that he became friends with. These furs also introduced him to the Furry Fandom. He was hooked, and his persona Wildwolf was born. Seventeen years has passed since he was introduced to the fandom. He has built many fursuits, performed as professional mascots and worked in the entertainment field.

Wildwolf's first convention he went to was in 1996. It was Confurence East in Cleveland Ohio. He was introduced to many amazing fursuits there and was inspired to build his own. Wildwolf, his first fursuit was debuted at Confurence 9 in 1998. Years down the road, he has built many well known fursuits, professional mascots for colleges and businesses, and icon fursuits for conventions or gatherings. He built Ozzy the Bat for the Furloween event held in Orlando Florida every October. He built an exact likeness of Underdog for Anthrocon, the year Joe Harris, the creator of Underdog, was the Guest of Honor. He also built and wears the mascot for Megaplex, "Mega" Pounce Panther. This mascot changes costumes every year, depending on theme. Some of his well known fursuits include, Kuddlepup, Ditto the Dragon Wolf, Blue the dog, Rakket Raccoon, Ace the foxbunny, Grynn the Sabretooth, Ripner the Cabbit, Gary the Rat, and he was the 1st to build an Anubis fursuit. He also built and donated a mascot for a non profit, children's organization called "The Sunshine Foundation". It was a Florida Panther called Sunnie.

Wildwolf has also performed as professional mascots and character for the last 10 years. Some of these mascots and characters include Scooby Doo, Tony the Tiger, Bullwinkle, Cat in the Hat, The Grinch, Razzles from the Raggs Kid Club Band, Timmy the Termite. He also performed as Sealvester for the Orlando/Florida Seals Hockey team for 5 seasons. He was Blitz the Bobcat from the Florida Bobcats Arena Football League. He also played Stuff the Magic Dragon, for the Orlando Magic basketball team. Other teams he has done mascot work for was the Orlando Solar Bears and the Orlando Miracles. He has appeared on Nationwide TV shows like Early Show, The Daily Show and News programs as various mascots and characters.

Wildwolf also does a lot of charity and volunteer work. He has played characters and mascots for Give Kids the World, Arnold Palmer Childrens Hospital, The Sunshine Foundation, Boggy Creek Camp for Children, The Boys and Girls Club, and various others. He has won many awards for his Volunteer work throughout the ten plus years he has been involved in it.

Wildwolf has been working professionally for the past 10 years, in the Costume and Prosthetic Shop for a major theme park in Orlando Florida. He works on park, show, TV and Movie costumes and props. Some of the costumes he works on at the park are Scooby Doo, Alex the Lion, Woody Woodpecker, E.B. from "HOP" movie, Shrek, Cat in the Hat, Grinch, The Simpsons, Marvel Superheroes, the Werewolf from "Van Helsing" movie, and many more. He also works on costumes and props for the nations largest Halloween event, Halloween Horror Nights.

For over a year now, Wildwolf has co-founded a Paranormal Investigating group called the "Sunshine State Paranormal Investigators" (S.S.P.I). The group travels around Florida to investigates famous haunts and tries to find proof of the Paranormal World.

More information on Wildwolf can be found on FurAffinity!

 

Past Years

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