SacAnime Welcomes Critical Role’s Sam Riegel

Sam Riegel will be attending SacAnime Winter 2025 on Saturday and Sunday. Sam Riegel is a Los Angeles-based voice actor and Emmy Award-winning voice director, known for his roles in animation and video games, as well as the massively popular Critical Role.

Over his decades-long career, Sam has voiced iconic animated characters such as Donatello in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Emperor Awesome on Wander Over Yonder, Shiro Emiya in Fate/Stay Night, Viral in Gurren Lagann, Mephisto in Blue Exorcist, Sumner in Eureka Seven, Metal Bat in One Punch Man, Corr in Young Jedi Adventures and of course Scanlan Shorthalt in The Legend of Vox Machina. His notable video game characters include Peter Parker/Spiderman in The Amazing Spiderman games, Starscream in Transformers War for Cybertron & Fall of Cybertron, Teddie in the Persona series, Chris Haversam in Fallout New
Vegas, Gramble Gigglefunny in Bugsnax, Stahl in Fire Emblem, Jude in Tales of Xillia, Flynn in Tales of Vesperia, Braham in Guild Wars 2 and Phoenix Wright in several Ace Attorney games.

Sam has also served as voice director for Disney’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Kiff, DuckTales, Elena of Avalor, Sofia The First, as well as Archibald’s Next Big Thing for Dreamworks, DC Superhero Girls for Cartoon Network, and Kid Cosmic for Netflix, among many others.

Sam earned Emmy Awards for his directing work on Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur as well as Amazon’s Danger & Eggs, and is the recipient of three BTVA People’s Choice Voice Acting Awards and a BTVA Video Game Voice Acting Award. He also won the Austin Film Festival for best Half-Hour Television Writing and he’ll continue to win the hearts of viewers every Thursday night on Critical Role.

Sam can be found on Twitter at @samriegel and Instagram at @ramsiegel.