2025 Special Guests
We’re delighted to have the following individuals as special guests at Origins Game Fair this year. More special guests may be added as we approach the show, so check back often!
Timbo Sullivan
Four times Food Network Champion and celebrity cake designer Timbo Sullivan comes to Origins 2025! On Friday and Saturday Timbo will create a 50th Anniversary 3D Crit cake onsite during the show!
Haywood Banks
Heywood Banks is simply one-of-a-kind, almost impossible to describe, with a style his very own. Equal parts genius and buffoon, this songwriter-comic-singer-poet-musician has become a cult hero and a pop icon, with a show that appeals to college students, stoners, businessmen, yuppies, rednecks, punks, kids, or your grandmother.
Heywood intersperses his humorous observations of life with twisted, inventive, bizarre songs, sung and played in a variety of styles, from folk to country to rock to pop, and way beyond. You have to be pretty smart to get Heywood at his deepest level (he demands a high level of pop culture literacy), but you can also enjoy him just for his vocal style impersonations, expert musicianship and just plain silliness.
His songs include "Toast", "Fly's Eyes", "Wiper Blades", "Pancreas", "Big Butter Jesus", "18 Wheels (on a Big Rig)", "The One Eye Love" & "The Cat Got Dead".
Heywood frequently appears on the nationally syndicated radio program The Bob and Tom Show.