2025 Cosplay Guests
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Cosplay Guests
Chiki Cosplay
Chiki Cosplay developed her sewing expertise under the tutelage of head costume designers for operas and professional theatres. She has won a multitude of awards, including several best in show for construction and masquerade skits. Her work can be found featured in the book: 1000 Incredible Costume & Cosplay Ideas: A Showcase of Creative Characters from Anime, Manga, Video Games, Movies, Comics and More as well as publications like Cosplay Realm Magazine and Craft Center Magazine. She has been a craftsmanship judge at Animazement, Katsucon, Otakon, TsubasaCon and more as well as a former cosplay guest at GalaxyCon Raleigh, ConVivial, Miryokucon and RavenCon. She is the current cosplay director for NekoCon. When not working at conventions, she focuses on her photography career, escapes home to the Appalachian mountains as much as possible, and spends too much money on Fallout collectibles. You can find Chiki on Instagram: @chikicosplay and on facebook.com/chikicosplay
Website- https://chikicosplay.weebly.com/
Katsumi Cosplay
Katsumi cosplay (they/she) is an East Coast cosplayer best known for their original designs. With over ten years of experience on the convention circuit, they figured why not share *all* the stuff they learned? From costume concept to crafting, cosplay photography to contest participation, they have a panel for anyone interested in the wonderful world of cosplay! And, if you find them on the convention floor, they’d love for you to stop and say hi or even ask for advice!
Social media link: https://katsumicosplay.carrd.co/
Mourning Dove Cosplay
Mourning Dove Cosplay is has been cosplaying and attending conventions since 2018. She has attended various conventions in Virginia and North Carolina. She has cosplayed as various characters including Wednesday Addams, Emma Frost, Mavis and many others. Not only is she an avid cosplayer but she has also been a performer with two The Rocky Horror Picture Show shadow casts where she has performed as characters including Magenta, Janet, Colombia, Rocky and Frank-N-Furter. She had the privilege of guesting at RavenCon and ConGregate and is so excited to be guesting at ConVivial.
Naychan Cosplay
Naychan is an award winning central Virginia based cosplayer who has been sewing and creating costumes for well over a decade. She takes pride in clean craftsmanship and adding personal details to every costume. Naychan strives to learn something new with each build and has found a real passion in bringing that knowledge to other cosplayers through panels and workshops at conventions all over the east coast. She truly believes anyone can cosplay and loves to empower that crafting spirit! Her favorite projects usually involve sewing, painting, rhinestones, and especially a crafted fake food prop.
https://www.youtube.com/@naychan_cosplay
Niki of Crimson Dame Cosplay
Nicole is a journeyman cosplayer and an Air Force veteran whose military specialization was in in nuclear weaponry. She is an employ of the Veterans Affairs Administration and is proud to work diligently to help veterans, young and old, to receive the services and benefits they deserve.
A mother of three, and dog-mom to four, with one full-time, and two part-time jobs (!!!), cosplay is a much-appreciated hobby and diversion. She’s also enjoys console gaming, Anime, bad movies, reading, and tabletop RPGs.
She fell down the cosplay rabbit hole only a few years ago and was honored to win first place in CrashCity Con’s inaugural cosplay contest.
A seamstress, prop manufacturer, make-up artist, and diligent thrift-store hunter, Nicole has a special passion for anime costuming and nostalgia-themed costuming from the 80s and 90s. One of her recent favorite costumes is the character of Strawberry Shortcake—from the iconic 80’s toys and cartoons.
Her long-term goals include offering support, encouragement, and building confidence to other cosplayers, building communities among those who enjoy the hobby in her local region, and meeting and learning from others in the community.
Angela Pritchett
Angela Pritchett is an award-winning, master-level cosplayer and educator. She started sewing from a very young age when she saw the Labyrinth and wanted Sarah’s poets shirt, her father and grandmother realize that “this child needs to learn how to sew.”
Angela has over 20 years of experience in the world of cosplay and has focused on introducing newcomers to costuming/cosplay and helping create a fun and safe environment for all. When not working on cosplays she has designed and created costumes for stage and screen, she loves the process of bringing a thought on a piece of paper to life.
She has been a cosplay guest, judge, contest runner. She has been running Katsucon’s Hall Costume Contest for almost two decades. Her costumes have been featured in The Washington Post, CosMode, and multiple coffee table costuming/cosplay books.
When not costuming Angela works in the film industry. She has been in a handful of movies/TV shows as well as numerous commercials, most notably JG Wentworth, Giant Foods, a Bill Nye the Science Guy special, Plan 9 and The Porkchop Trilogy.
Outside of film and cosplay, Angela’s favorite things are boba, Pugs, junk journaling, playing Dead by Daylight and horror movies!
You can find Angela online on various platforms, she is Angalese on Instagram and AngelaPlaysUkulele on TikTok and YouTube.
Richard Siebigteroth
Rick and family took their love of theater and science fiction and formed Luna-C Productions in 1997. In addition to producing, directing and acting in a number of their amateur movie and staged productions, he is also the driving force behind Old Dominion Daleks and Loki Gators Con-Quest.
In competition Rick and Family has won costuming and presentation awards or been part of numerous Best in Shows, Best Presentations, Most Humorous and workmanship awards over the past 40 years.
Luna-C had the honor of receiving the 2023 Volker/McChesney Award winners for service to Fandom from Farpoint 2023.