Special Guests

Tiffany Shepis

Colorado Festival of Horror is thrilled to announce actor, producer, and scream queen Tiffany Shepis is coming to our convention Sept 13-15, 2024! Tiffany will be meeting fans, signing autographs, and doing photo ops!

Tiffany Shepis was born and raised in New York City. She got her start in Lloyd Kaufman and James Gunn’s Tromeo and Juliet when she was just 16 years old. Since then Tiffany has made over 150 independent films: most notably the SYFY hit Abominable, the late-night fan favorite The Hazing, After Dark Horrorfest’s Nightmare Man, Sundance Film Festival’s The Violent Kind, Adam Green’s Victor Crowley, and Debbie Rochon’s Model Hunger, as well as the multi-award-winning The Frankenstein Syndrome and the mega cult hit Sharknado 2: The Second One! Recently she starred in the final season of Star Trek: Picard as “Dr. Ohk”. Tiffany continues to work as an actress, host and producer and is constantly on fan favorite lists such as Playboy’s top sexiest scream queens.

Tiffany will have Professional Photo Ops available on Saturday and Sunday. Stay tombed for times with the programming accouncement. Your 8x10 will be printed and available onsite! Times for Photo Ops to be announced closer to event.

Vincente DiSanti

Colorado Festival of Horror is thrilled to announce actor, director, writer & producer Vincente DiSanti is coming to our convention Sept 13-15! Vincente will be meeting fans, signing autographs, screening his terrifying Friday the 13th NEVER HIKE ALONE films and doing photo ops as "JASON" all weekend at Colorado Festival of Horror: Friday the 13th September 13th-15th, 2024!

Vincente DiSanti is an award-winning director and founder of the independent film company, Womp Stomp Films. Since 2016, Vincente and his team have utilized crowdfunding to raise over $800,000 and produce award-winning films such as the "Never Hike Alone" Series, "Pathosis," "Imagine," and "Dylan's New Nightmare." As a 16-year veteran of the film and television industry Vicente's production experience includes feature animated films "Free Birds," "Rock Dog," and "Duck, Duck, Goose" as well as live action projects such as "American Horror Story," "The Rookie," and "Finest Kind."

Vincente will have Professional Photo Ops available on Saturday and Sunday. Stay tombed for times with the programming accouncement. Your 8x10 will be printed and available onsite! Times for Photo Ops to be announced closer to event. Proceeds from Vincente's photo ops will go to a local wildlife preserves/restoration project to keep trails clean & safe.

Adam Dougherty

Colorado Festival of Horror is thrilled to announce Creature Designer, SPFX, Makeup, and Concept Artist Adam Dougherty is coming to our convention Sept 13-15! Adam will be meeting fans, signing autographs, and participating on a panel/workshop all weekend at our convention September 13th-15th, 2024!

KreatureKid is Adam Dougherty, a creature creator, special effects expert, and filmmaker. Adam spent 10 years working at various FX companies in Los Angeles, helping to create some of the world’s favorite monsters, including working on “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”, “Annabelle: Creation”, “The Nun”, The Predator”, “Godzilla: King of the Monsters”, and “Creepshow” to name a few. Now, Adam has started his own, multifaceted company KreatureKid in Colorado that has handcrafted creatures, gags, and so much more for features, shorts, and commercials alike. Additionally, KreatureKid has forged many fine art pieces that are on public and private display. Adam has also ventured into the filmmaking space, creating beautiful videos and shorts featuring his own creations as well as on the 2023 film “Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls” and launching the crowdfunded short film project “Jungle of Darkness” in 2022. With a flare for the macabre and a keen eye for detail, Adam continues to create wildly intricate and fascinating works today.

Kevon Ward

Colorado Festival of Horror is thrilled to announce is a local Denver artist who specializes in FX makeup, creature design/fabrication, fine art, and graphic design Kevon Ward is coming to our convention Sept 13-15! Kevon will be meeting fans, signing autographs, and participating on a panel/workshop all weekend at our convention September 13th-15th, 2024!

Kevon Ward is a two-time competitor on the hit SYFY reality, competition show Face Off. Kevon's work has been featured in film, television, theatrical productions, theme parks, VR games, body paint competitions, retail stores, and children's books. Kevon loves to create horror fan art, as well as original concepts. He works as a full-time artist, fulfilling client needs that range from horror makeup/gags to puppetry, scale models, mural work, scenic sculpture/installation, body paint/illusion makeup, digital illustration, concept art, and personalized family/pet portrait paintings. Kevon has also been working on the development of multiple film studios here in Denver, under LFX FilmWorks, in order to expand Colorado's film scene. Kevon Ward is the creator of the dark horror comedy web series Bored as Hell, starring local talent Heath Heine, out now on YouTube. Follow Kevon on Instagram and Facebook.

Matt Haslam

Colorado Festival of Horror is thrilled to announce is a local Denver visual effects artist specializing in miniature design and construction, as well as prop creation, with a little bit of pyro effect work built in, Matt Haslam is coming to our convention Sept 13-15! Matt will be meeting fans, signing autographs, and participating on a panel/workshop all weekend at our convention September 13th-15th, 2024!

Early work saw Matt working on two episodes of Reading Rainbow with Levar Burton. His movie credits run the gamut: Matrix: Reloaded, Spiderman, Crow 2: City of Angels, Blade 2, Virus, Atomic Train, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and even Godzilla. A Hollywood career spanning over 27 years and still going. Matt has worked for several effects companies, most noteably Fantasy II Film Effects and 4-Ward Productions for films produced through most of the major production studios. He has also recently moved toward producing some work through a recent association with Far Away Creations with Cal Pierce. Sadly, Matt's mentor and dear friend Gene Warren, Jr., passed in 2019, and Fantasy II had closed its doors. Recently though, Matt has become involved in preparing to resurrect Fantasy II Film Effects with Gene's sons Chris and Gene III under a new name ... Blind Beagle VFX. He will be helping to run their model and prop shop.

Stephen Graham Jones

Colorado Festival of Horror is thrilled to announce is a local Denver the New York Times bestselling author of nearly thirty novels and collections, and there’s some novellas and comic books in there as well, Stephen Graham Jones is coming to our convention Sept 13-15! Stephen will be meeting fans, signing autographs, and participating on a panel/workshop all weekend at our convention September 13th-15th, 2024!

Stephen’s been an NEA recipient, has won the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Fiction, the LA Times Ray Bradbury Prize, the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, WLA’s Distinguished Achievement Award, ALA’s RUSA Award and Alex Award, the 2023 American Indian Festival of Words Writers Award, four Bram Stoker Awards®, two Shirley Jackson Awards, five This is Horror Awards, and he’s been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award and the British Fantasy Award. He’s also made Bloody Disgusting’s Top Ten Horror Novels, and is the guy who wrote Mongrels, The Only Good Indians, My Heart is a Chainsaw, Don’t Fear the Reaper, The Angel of Indian Lake, and I Was A Teenage Slasher. Stephen’s comic books include IDW’s Earthdivers and Metal X Entertainment’s True Believers which feature the cosplay slasher Killr™ creating havoc at the Colorado Festival of Horror convention! Stephen lives and teaches in Boulder, Colorado.