Special Guests

We are thrilled to announce that Naya Moreno is joining the tea party for SEMOcon 2026!

Whether she’s navigating the secrets of the Rear Palace as Ailan in The Apothecary Diaries or setting sail with high-seas energy of Speed in One Piece, Naya brings every character to life with curiouser and curiouser precision.

Originally from Troy, Michigan, Naya Moreno spent her entire childhood annoying her family with bizarre noises, voices, and sounds. She became so good at it that she decided to get paid for it someday. And thus, with a whole lotta practice, acting lessons, love and support from her family, and miracles from God Himself, Naya booked her first commercial voiceover gig in 2018 for a regional grocery store chain called Big Y. Since then, Naya has been blessed with opportunities to provide voiceover and acting talents to companies like Subway, Arby’s, Ford, Chevrolet, Toyota, 7-Eleven, CVS, Johns Hopkins Medicine, and more. In 2022, Naya kicked off her anime voice-acting career at Crunchyroll as the centaur Speed in “One Piece”. But when flying back and forth from Michigan to Dallas for recording sessions became twice as expensive as paying rent in DFW, she moved there permanently in early 2023. Since living in The Big D, Naya has played characters like Dear Santa in "Gachiakuta", Cathy in “Sugar Apple Fairy Tale”, Ailan in “The Apothecary Diaries”, Maiko Maya Stronskaya in “Psycho-Pass”, First Princess Elizabeth Klyrode in “Chillin’ in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers”, Yumi Suou in “Ayla Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian”, Anna in “The Kingdoms of Ruin”, Yanagieda in “My Clueless First Friend”, and even a drowning cat. When Naya is not making her own noises, she likes to listen to other people’s noises at rock concerts.