Jamie McGonnigal

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Jamie McGonnigal
Born James Campbell McGonnigal
August 6, 1975 (1975-08-06) (age 36)
Weymouth, Massachusetts, United States

Jamie McGonnigal (born August 6, 1975 in Weymouth, Massachusetts) is a voice actor, actor, producer, activist and director, who has worked for various companies such as 4Kids Entertainment, NYAV Post, DuArt Film and Video and FUNimation Entertainment.

He is also one of the two only voice actors (the other being Sean Schemmel) to have performed on both the 4Kids and FUNimation dub versions of One Piece.

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[edit] Filmography

[edit] Anime/Animation

[edit] Video Games

[edit] Production Staff

[edit] Producer/Director (Theater)

[edit] Artistic Producer/Other

[edit] Activism, Concert Career, Charity Work and Anime Awards

Having been involved with several charities which raise awareness for those in the LGBT Community, including The Matthew Shepard Foundation, Jamie has always had a desire to be politically motivated in the areas concerning human rights. In 2005, he started Community of Hope which took him to a handful of High Schools and Colleges to speak to students about creating communities and supporting one another.

Jamie was nominated for an American Anime Award for Best Male Comic Actor for his performance in Magic User's Club.

McGonnigal is a recipient of the 2006 New England Theatre Conference Regional Award recognizing his charitable work in the theatre world. As a theatrical producer and director, Jamie has been responsible for many of New York's most acclaimed concerts of recent years.

As the founding Artistic Producer of The World AIDS Day Concerts and as a Founding Producer of the New York Musical Theatre Festival, Jamie has presented the New York Premiere of Stephen Schwartz' Children of Eden, the first major NY revisitation of Pippin starring Rosie O'Donnell and Ben Vereen, Snoopy The Musical (starring Tony Award-Winner Sutton Foster) The Secret Garden (named in top ten theatre events of 2005 by Playbill.com) Rags at Nokia Theatre Times Square (Starring Lainie Kazan), and the first major revival of the cult hit Runaways by Elizabeth Swados. His FLOPZ n' CUTZ series benefiting the Joey DiPaolo AIDS Foundation was declared a “smash” by New York's NEXT Magazine. Named an “impresario” by Time Out New York, he has produced and/or directed more than eighty events since 2003 for The Matthew Shepard Foundation, God's Love We Deliver, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Parkinson's Resource Organization, The National AIDS Fund, Opening Act, The Pied Piper Children's Theatre, Victims of Hurricane Katrina, Free Arts NYC, The United Nations Association HERO Campaign, and Victims of the 2008 Midwest Flooding. His work has earned him National recognition as well as a special award from The 2006 New England Theatre Conference. Over the few years Jamie has been presenting benefits and concerts, he has had the opportunity to work with luminaries such as Betty Buckley, Alan King, Robert Altman, Chita Rivera, Judd Hirsch, Mike Nichols, Tony Walton, Jennifer Holliday, Kathleen Marshall, Stephen Schwartz, Sutton Foster, 5-Time Emmy Award Winner David Canary, and dozens more. He has directed sold-out cabaret concerts for Broadway celebrities including Laura Benanti, Max von Essen, Gavin Creel, Laura Bell Bundy, John Tartaglia, Mandy Gonzalez and literally hundreds of other Broadway performers.

In 2007, McGonnigal traveled to South Africa and Namibia for seven weeks as an ambassador for the United Nations' HERO campaign assisting remote AIDS-affected communities. He also served on the Board of Directors for the Joey DiPaolo AIDS Foundation and acted as camp director for Camp TLC, a summer camp for inner city teens living with HIV/AIDS [www.jdaf.org] from 2005-2008. Additionally in 2007, Jamie founded the Broadway Loves the 80s Concerts, hosted by Mo Rocca and featuring performances from Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Kate Shindle, Michael Urie, Becki Newton, Julia Murney and Tony Vincent.

Inspired by the passing of California's Proposition 8, Jamie began discussions with several leaders in the LGBT Community and started the website talkaboutequality. In the interest of opening up lines of communication between his community and those who would vote to strip the human rights from his community. Additionally, he has become involved with Join The Impact NYC and was one of the organizers and speakers at the Times Square Rally for Marriage Equality on December 20, 2009.

Jamie took his work to Broadway Impact for the National Equality March and spearheaded the organizing efforts to bring 25 buses and more than 1400 marchers to Washington DC for the National Equality March on October 11, 2009. Additionally, he joined Equality Across America and the organizers of the National Equality March as a Congressional District Action Team Coordinator in the hopes of organizing locally for Federal protections.

In 2010, Jamie founded Take Back Pride, a campaign to put the elements of activism back in Pride Marches around the country. The movement has now swept 17 cities and 4 countries thus far.[1]

Jamie currently lives in Washington, D.C. with his dog, Eli and fiancé Sean. Sean proposed to him on New Year's Eve 2012 and the event can be seen on their blog, www.TalkAboutEquality.com

[edit] References

  1. ^ Osborne, Duncan (27 June 2010). "Take Back Pride Shows Its Colors". Gay City News. http://gaycitynews.com/articles/2010/06/27/gay_city_news/news/doc4c27f00aed32d140526852.txt. Retrieved 8 July 2010. 

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