Phoenix FearCon XI 2022
Horror Film Festival
Saturday Oct. 15th 2022 – Virtual On Festivee
Aurelio Voltaire’s show will be live and in person at Sun Studios in Tempe
Ticket options
- Voltaire Show Only ($20) – Special Musical Voltaire show – Doors open at 8pm, with Agents of Lust – Plus added percs.
- FearCON Virtual Event on our Festivee and Roku Channel platforms (We’ll throw in Voltaire’s show too!)
BUY TICKETS AT THE BOX OFFICE LINK: CLICK HERE
Thank you to all the VENDORS who have committed their time for the FearCON: Since our event must be Virtual this year, please visit their sites, support local! THERE WILL BE NO VENDORS AT THE VOLTAIRE EVENT.
Clay Coffee: Serving Cold Brew Coffee specially roasted by the Clay Coffee Company right here in Arizona!
Blue Ribbon Army: !
Kiki’s Cupcakes: Serving up themed cupcakes and treats and a FearCON favorite!
Art by Brandon McGill:
Aurelio Voltaire returns to FearCON!
10pm October 15th 2022 Sun Studios of Arizona 1425 W 14th St Tempe AZ 85281
Aurelio Voltaire is often described as a modern day renaissance man. He is a singer/ performer, author, creator of comic books, films, animation, toys and home decor.
An internationally touring musician, he is at the forefront of the Gothic, Steampunk and Dark Cabaret genres headlining some of the biggest horror, sci-fi and comic book conventions as well as Gothic and Steampunk festivals for nearly two decades. His music can best be described as a collection of murder ballads, tongue-in-cheek exercises in the macabre, with just enough bawdy songs about Star Trek and Star Wars to keep a sci-fi convention audience rolling in the aisles. Many know him for his songs “Brains!” and “Land of the Dead” from the Cartoon Network show “The Grim Adventures of Billy And Mandy” and for the viral fan animated videos for his songs “The Night”, “Land of the Dead” and “Zombie Prostitute” which have a combined 49 million views on Youtube.
Voltaire’s live shows, whether solo or with his skeletal orchestra, are full of stories and games. Many describe his shows as sitting around a fire while an old friend regales you with tales, presuming that old friend drinks a liter of rum a night, dates zombies and wrestles Krakens.
Voltaire has been recording and touring for over 20 years. He’s released 12 full length CDs.
Aurelio Voltaire began his career as a stop-motion animation director in the 80s, directing award-winning station identification spots for MTV, SyFy Channel, Nickelodeon and more as well as animating television commercials for Budweiser, Ikea, Kellogg’s, Wendy’s and many other international brands. As a short film director, Voltaire created a series of animated shorts that featured collaborations with Danny Elfman (Oingo Boingo), Deborah Harry (Blondie), Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance), Richard Butler (The Psychedelic Furs) and Gary Numan. These short films won a collected 36 film festival awards.
As a comic book and graphic novel creator in the 90s and early 2000s, Aurelio Voltaire created three different series; Chi-Chian, Oh My Goth! and Deady, the third of which included collaborations with Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker and many other luminaries of the dark fiction world. They also spawned an award winning animated series on the SyFy channel’s website written and directed by Voltaire as well as over two dozen toy licensing deals.
Most recently, Aurelio Voltaire can be seen in his informative and hilarious Youtube series, Gothic Homemaking. In this show, that can best be described as Vincent Price taking over for Martha Stewart, he demonstrates how to turn your boring apartment into a Gothic lair with the help of a desiccated co-host, Orville Deadenbacher and a bunch of other recurring monster characters.
Gothic Homemaking can be seen at: www.youtube.com/thelairofvoltaire
website: www.voltaire.net
Youtube: www.youtube.com/thelairofvoltaire
Instagram: www.instagram.com/aureliovoltaire
And our Official Host: Jay Michaels
Jay Michaels is the heart of FearCON
Jay Michaels spent decades as an independent film and New York theatre producer. Credits include Broadway and National Tour (Guys & Dolls – 1992, Damn Yankees – 1994, The Vagina Monologues with Eve Ensler – 2005, the original Les Misérables, Cats, Beginnings – 2017), as well as Hard Times, 1984, and Romulus Linney’s Holy Ghosts for the Joyce Theater’s American Theater series, which won a 1986 Drama Desk Award. While there he also served on the production staff for Eliot Feld, Meredith Monk, Pilobolus, and the Nicholas Brothers. He also directed the final company of LINE – the longest running off-off Broadway show in history – at the original 13th Street Playhouse. His career as an executive in charge of promotion and marketing includes producing events at Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, Atlantic City, and NY’s exclusive venues, he spearheaded international ad campaigns, and served as speech writer/coach for dignitaries including James Earl Jones, Jon Stewart, Rocco Landesman, Barry Weissler, and Hillary Clinton. In 1997, he opened a nonprofit arts & education organization: Genesis Repertory, with Mary Elizabeth Micari, dedicated to creating opportunities for young and emerging artists on stage and in film & TV.
Today, he heads JMC: Channel I – a network of multimedia programs featuring – and dedicated to – independent artists, serving as talk-show host of the video and audio podcast In The PassionPit and Indie Influencer for Spectrum Cable in NYC.
But what he always really wanted to do was work in horror movies!
He got his chance Off-Broadway, playing a vampire in the premiere of The Monster Seated Next to Me and the devil-dealing Doctor Faustus for the 2003 revival; the voice of Shadrack in the Video Game, King’s Quest: Silver Lining; the title character in the film, Norman: A Modern Metamorphosis (Cannes Film Festival), in which he turned into a bug; the Igor-like Laurence in Tartuffe, the opera (world premiere in NYC) and director of the macabre film, Slings & Arrows – receiving international distribution.
He continued his passion as host of Terror TV, a program dedicated to genre filmmakers. This branched out into a video interview series called Horror-Storian and numerous appearances at conventions and film festivals including Phantasm-Con, Boston Sci-Fi and the Phoenix FearCon and its satellite, Drac-Fest. Now, he is thrilled to be the face of terror on FearCon’s ROKU Network, continuing his series of interviews on genre artists and their work.
FearCON Network now on ROKU
