{"id":14074,"date":"2013-04-17T10:24:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T14:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=14074"},"modified":"2013-04-17T10:24:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T14:24:10","slug":"peter-davison-to-be-at-gen-con-in-indianapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/04\/peter-davison-to-be-at-gen-con-in-indianapolis.html","title":{"rendered":"Peter Davison to be at Gen Con in Indianapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Another e-mail I received, this one from WhoNA:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Peter Davison at Who North America and GenCon (August 15-18, 2013)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FROM THE OFFICIAL GENCON ANNOUNCEMENT:<\/p>\n<p>Gen Con Announces First 2013 Media Guest of Honor<\/p>\n<p>Fifth Doctor from Doctor Who Classic Series to Attend<\/p>\n<p>SEATTLE (April 16, 2013) \u2013 Gen Con LLC has announced that Peter Davison, best known as the Fifth Doctor of the famed Doctor Who Classic series, will attend Gen Con Indy 2013 as its first named Media Guest of Honor. Davison, a veteran of stage and screen, also has recently appeared alongside the 10th Doctor, David Tennant, in the television special Doctor Who: Time Crash.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Davison is appearing at Gen Con Indy in partnership with Indianapolis\u2019 own Who North America, Inc., a multi-year Gen Con exhibitor and Doctor Who retailer. As a Media Guest of Honor, Davison will take part in signings in Gen Con\u2019s Autograph Area with official times to be announced prior to show. He also will take part in several Who North America, Inc. events, which will be announced in the coming weeks. More information regarding those events will be made available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whona.com.\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.whona.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs it is the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who in 2013, the Gen Con team is ecstatic to name Peter Davison as our first Media Guest of Honor,\u201d said Adrian Swartout, CEO of Gen Con LLC. \u201cDavison bridges the eras from the classic Doctor Who series to the current, popular BBC series.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his work as the Fifth Doctor, Davison has acted in more than a dozen television series, including the British series of Law &amp; Order: UK, Miss Marple, Wuthering Heights, and the popular American 1980s series, Magnum PI. On stage, he has appeared in West End productions of Spamalot, Chicago, and Legally Blonde \u2013 The Musical. Davison also has performed in Shakespearean productions including the Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, and a Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream.<\/p>\n<p>For more information regarding Gen Con Indy, click on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gencon.com.\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.gencon.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>About Gen Con<\/p>\n<p>Gen Con, LLC produces the largest consumer hobby, fantasy, science fiction and adventure game convention in North America, Gen Con Indy, The Best Four Days In Gaming!\u2122. Gen Con will return to the Indianapolis Convention Center on August 15-18, 2013. Acquired in 2002 by former CEO and founder of Wizards of the Coast Peter Adkison, the company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. This year\u2019s Co-Sponsors include Paizo Publishing and Mayfair Games. For more information, visit the website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gencon.com.\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.gencon.com.<\/a> For up-to-the minute details, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/genconindy.\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/genconindy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gen Con LLC Media Contact<\/p>\n<p>Stacia Kirby, (206) 363-1492<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:Stacia@speakeasy.net\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Stacia@speakeasy.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>About Who North America, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Who North America, Inc., located in Indianapolis, Indiana, is a Doctor Who specialist retailer supplying merchandise to fans worldwide. Please visit their website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whona.com.\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.whona.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who North America, Inc. Media Contact<\/p>\n<p>Jany Bradbury, (317) 481-8189<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:whona@whona.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">whona@whona.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another e-mail I received, this one from WhoNA: OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Peter Davison at Who North America and GenCon (August 15-18, 2013) FROM THE OFFICIAL GENCON ANNOUNCEMENT: Gen Con Announces First 2013 Media Guest of Honor Fifth Doctor from Doctor Who Classic Series to Attend SEATTLE (April 16, 2013) \u2013 Gen Con LLC has announced that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[2765,3819,5131,8992,13700],"class_list":["post-14074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who-science-fiction","tag-doctor-who","tag-gen-con","tag-indianapolis","tag-peter-davison","tag-whona"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Peter Davison to be at Gen Con in Indianapolis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Another e-mail I received, this one from WhoNA: OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Peter Davison at Who North America and GenCon (August 15-18, 2013) FROM THE\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/04\/peter-davison-to-be-at-gen-con-in-indianapolis.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Peter Davison to be at Gen Con in Indianapolis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Another e-mail I received, this one from WhoNA: OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Peter Davison at Who North America and GenCon (August 15-18, 2013) FROM THE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/04\/peter-davison-to-be-at-gen-con-in-indianapolis.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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