Cosplay

Cosplay Guest

Midnight Pursona is an award-winning competitive cosplayer out of Las Vegas, NV. For 12+ years, Midnight has been bringing entertainment and joy through her masquerade skits and TikTok videos. She enjoys creating unique make-up looks and creating designs and costumes wherever she goes. As a POC, Plus-Size, Queer cosplayer, Midnight advocates strongly for equality and diversity in the community and is open and happy to sit down and have a discussion on how to improve the community to make it more inclusive and welcoming for everyone. A few fun facts about Midnight: She has a giant love of cows and plushies, she entertains friends weekly on her Twitch channel, she’s also an artist, and she's always ready to be a cosplay mom if you need one.

Twitter -  https://twitter.com/midnightpursona  

Facebook -  https://www.facebook.com/midnightpursona  

Instagram -  https://instagram.com/midnightpursona

TikTok  -  https://tiktok.com/@midnightpursona

Cosplay Craftsmanship Judge

HylianCream is a Master level craftsmanship and performance focused cosplayer from SoCal. Competing since high school, she has years of competition experience, including numerous awards for their costume craftsmanship & skit performances.

She has recently been awarded for her drama performance at Anime Los Angeles 2024 and best craftsmanship at Anime Expo 2023. She enjoys getting to create a story for the stage & showcasing her craft for the audience. 

Besides competing in her hand crafted cosplays, she is a professional seamstress for dance wear & costumes. Because of her education in costume design, she loves to take the time to teach sewing tips on her Instagram & in panels at conventions!

Cosplay Guest

Tunaphish is a traditionally trained painter turned seamstress and designer, who began her cosplay journey in 2015. She gradually transitioned from purchased costumes to mastering her own craft through self-teaching in order to make her own inspired costumes that fit her body. Since, she has quickly gained recognition for her craftsmanship and after being pushed by friends to try competing has won several awards, including both Best in Show and first place masters at Tekko. The convention holds a special place in her heart, as it was where her love for cosplay was ignited, making her return a cherished opportunity to contribute to a community she deeply treasures.

Firmly rooted in the belief that cosplay is an inclusive art form for all, Tunaphish champions a philosophy of diversity and acceptance within the cosplay community. She seeks to celebrate the passion cosplayers our into their work and aspires to welcome those of all backgrounds and skill levels to join in the creative journey. Tunaphish considers herself a cosplay “scientist”, tirelessly seeking to explore and experiment with new techniques, and then share and teach these to fellow cosplayers in their quest to tell their own stories through their creations. She finds joy in sharing her processes and supporting others in their cosplay journeys.

Instagram: tunaphish

Facebook: Tunaphish Cosplays

Cosplay Craftsmanship Judge

Sarcasm-himé has been cosplaying for longer than the average convention attendee has been alive, and has the Party City wig horror stories to prove it. Addicted to anything shiny, she has a deep love for embroidery, beading, goldwork, and the sort of detail that makes your eyes cross. She loves the challenge of bringing something 2D to life, as well as flexing her creative muscles by interpreting fandom characters through the lens of historical fashion (like her 1910s Erté version of Hela, or her 18th century ballgown Ghidorah).

She has won numerous awards across Canada and the USA, and her most recent win was 1st place in the NYCC Crown Championships of Cosplay. When she's not working on her next detail monster, she's playing Baldur's Gate 3 or indulging in her bubble tea habit (that is perfectly fine and definitely doesn't need an intervention).

Instagram: @sarcasm_hime

FB:   facebook.com/sarcasm.hime

Twitter:  @sarcasmhime

Website:  sarcasm-hime.net

Cosplay Performance Judge

Paige aka Knovice Cosplay is a California-based maker who loves to pull-back the curtain to share the secrets and joy of cosplay-performing. Using their theater and dance background, they hope to make performing resources more accessible to inspire more cosplayers to give the stage a chance! From script-writing to acting to set/prop design, they cover it all so that cosplayers can be equipped to craft their own award-winning and engaging performances for an audience. Not just a performer, Paige is also a self-taught sewist and costume-maker who sees the value in spreading crafting knowledge. They contribute to the free resources  online, sharing cosplay-making guides on Youtube, and general sewing tips on Instagram. In addition to creating their own crafting-tutorials, they co-run the annual online Cosplay Tutorial Challenge, a contest that rewards other cosplayers for sharing their knowledge.

Instagram: @knovicecosplay

YouTube: @knovicecosplay

Website:  https://knovicecosplay.wixsite.com/bookings/reel

Cosplay Tutorial Challenge Website: cosplaytutorialchallenge.com

Half Time Show Performer

Rakumaroo performed at Tekko for the first time in 2016. After winning a Judge's Award, she continued to build her skills by competing at more conventions. She has earned Judge's Awards, First Place, and Best in Show prizes since then and has coached a handful of cosplayers on performance tips and tricks. After years of competing, she decided to make a change to further her cosplay career and become a guest performer. With the help of Tekko's staff, she had the opportunity to perform her first Masquerade Half-time Show in 2022 with a self-written musical parody, and she later performed a second show in 2023.

Tekko has been a huge part of Rakumaroo's life, and she owes a lot of her opportunities and experiences to the staff and congoers. From becoming a cosplay guest, creating new friends, even meeting her soon-to-be spouse, she has found a home in Tekko and a new form of expression that she hopes others can also gain.

Rakumaroo will once again perform this year's Masquerade Halftime Show, a Hall Stage musical performance, and Tekko Live shows alongside Laughing Mecha and Nancy Kepner. She is happy to share tips and tricks or meet new friends, so stop by one of her shows and say hello!

Facebook - Rebecca Ann Cosplay

Instagram - Rakumaroo

Tiktok - Rakumaroo

Horror Queen Cosplay has been a cosplayer since 2008, having done over 200 costumes. She loves cosplaying frilly ballgowns, and spooky nightmares! From Krampus to Sleeping Beauty, Mother Miranda to Ever After High. If it's frilly or frightening, she loves it! An award-winning cosplayer with an affinity for transforming garments, she can't resist a good performance. In the name of cosplay, she has learned how to ribbon dance, feather fan dance, make crazy magical props, and master magnets! Horror Queen loves the creativity that the cosplay community exhibits and can't wait to see your amazing performances at Tekko!

She is a mother to one Calico cat and four furbies, and a lover of sharks. You can find her each week streaming a variety of indie games, horror games, or cosplay crafting on her Twitch channel

 -Social Media handles: @horrorqueencosplay on insta/TikTok/youtube/facebook. @horrorqueencos on twitter. Finally, Twitch.tv/HorrorQueenCosplay

Cirque du Soleil. Celebrities. RuPaul's Drag Race.  One Piece. EDC. Red Carpets. School of Cosplay. After coming up in the scene from sweeping Cosplay Competitions, he moved to Las Vegas to work for The Venetian designing the Opera Gowns. Eventually he landed at Cirque du Soleil’s water spectacular O building costumes.

Since leaving Cirque, he has worked freelance out of his own studio – creating everything from mermaids that shoot water, to Mirrorball Men, and Golden Fairies that contort through the air.  Jez has designed for events with A-list celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, Eva Langoria, Snoop Dogg, and DJs such as Benny Benassi, and Dash Berlin; his jewelry has even been worn on the red carpet at the Billboard Awards and seen on RuPaul's Drag Race.

He has represented the United States at the IOEA Otaku Expo in Japan as a Cosplay Guest, and also helped choose the Canadian World Cosplay  Summit representative for 2016. He believes that the world of costuming  is an endlessly fascinating pursuit-from armor to gowns, giant puppetry to monsters. He shares unique events that educate and involve the community (such as Lip Sync For Your Cosplay and PROJECT: Cosplay!) and has restructured and organized cosplay events for conventions in his goal to make the competition scene more streamlined. His artistic journey came full circle in 2015 when he was hired as an Artistic Consultant for the One Piece: Gold film, working with Toei Animation to give their film a fully realized Las Vegas feel.  In 2018 he was hired by Right Stuf Anime to create the Official Brand Costumes for animes Aria, Dirty Pair, and Emma.

In Winter 2019 he launched CosplayVegas, the School of Cosplay in Las Vegas.  It has grown to offer classes in all disciplines of costume arts as well as support the community through outreach, education, and pass along the universal message that Cosplay is for everyone!