The Wizard's Christmas: Principal Cast

Nick Johnson: Voice of Alerik

Nick Johnson is an illustrator and comic book artist living in Calgary. He is currently enrolled at the Alberta College of Art and Design, working toward a major in Illustration.

In 2003, he co-founded the independent comic label, Vicious Ambitious where he and four other artists self-publish comics and create original short films. The Wizard's Christmas is his first opportunity to do voice work in a feature film, and he loved it!

Riah Fielding-Walters: Voice of Perin

Riah has always been involved in the performing arts but it wasn't until after graduating from the National Ballet School that she set her sights on acting. After graduating from high school, she started taking film and television acting classes.

Finding her love for acting continuing to grow even more, she decided that she wanted to study acting even further at the University of Calgary. While keeping herself open to any opportunities that came her way, she started her first year of Drama at U of C. She soon realized that she had a growing interest in voice acting too, thanks to her watching a lot of Japanese Anime. As of April 2009, she has completed her first year at university and is continuing her pursuit of acting.

Riah emphatically states, that getting the role of Perin in 'The Wizard's Christmas' was such a wonderful experience for her, and her career as an actor. To work with professionals of the acting world and to enjoy the art form that she loves so much is something that she wants to experience again in the future!

Jonathan Love: Voice of Lucius

Jonathan Love is one of Western Canada’s premiere performers. On-mic, he has been providing clients with award-winning voice-over services throughout the twenty-first century. From local ads to the voice of Obi-wan Kenobi in a STAR WARS video game, his voice talents are out of this world. Jonathan’s vocal services include character and announcer voice-overs for television and radio commercials, jingles, web site audio, documentaries, corporate, industrial, or multimedia projects, and branding and imaging for television and radio stations.

Jonathan Love has played many roles – onscreen, onstage and on-mic. As an actor, he has appeared in films such as Kevin Costner’s Open Range, Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, and The Lazarus Child with Andy Garcia.

He can even act like a singer. Jonathan’s internationally acclaimed a cappella comedy quartet, the Heebee-jeebees, have been entertaining audiences all over North America since 1993.

Jason Cermak: Voice of Markis

Jason Cermak is a Canadian actor/film maker currently living in Vancouver, BC. Jason was born in Drayton Valley, Alberta and grew up in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta.

Jason made the decision to follow his dreams at the age of 22 after living in Prague and meeting Matt Damon during the filming of The Bourne Identity.

Jason has trained as an actor in schools and studios around the world including The University of Calgary, The Company of Rouges Actors Studio in Calgary, The Canadian Casting Centers, The Brave Studios in Melbourne Australia, and various studios in the Czech Republic. Cermak can also be seen appearing in Stolen Horses (Lone Eagle/Nomadic Pictures), Hooked Up, Mike Peterson’s The Secret Lives of Robots, and also in Paul Gross's Canadian Epic, Passchendaele.

Jason has recently taken the director’s chair directing 2 short films: Countdown to a Kiss, and wrote/directed/produced a film called, Creepy Jesus.

Jason Cermak IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2656786

James O. Hopkin: Voice of Malerus

James began acting for the stage in high school after being asked, with no experience, to audition for the lead. After a being cast in the role, rehearsing it, and a successful opening night, a career path was set.

Plays in high school, college, and amateur theatre quickly followed on its heels. The bulk of James’ training came by way of ‘performing'... all year round, year after year, in a town called Rosebud (later Chemainus). It was there that he became deeply entrenched in a resident company of actors, forming one of the few Theatrical Apprenticeship Training Programs in North America. He refined his acting and directing skills over time in lead roles for such productions as Inspector Calls, Dial M for Murder, Gifts of the Magi, The Foreigner, Angel Street and Cotton Patch Gospel.

Over twenty years and over thirty five productions later, James has successfully adapted his stage skills to a full time career in film and television. Recent roles in Montana Sky, Scar, Fear Itself, Daughter of the Bride and Confessions of a Gogo Girl have only whetted James’ appetite for much more in the future.