Apr 12, 2006 - Site Downtime - Some of you may have noticed problems with the I-CON site over the past few days. We have been having hardware issues with our server, which have now been resolved. All site functionality should now be fully restored... if you notice any issues, please email webmaster@iconsf.org. Thank you.

Mar 22, 2006 - Important Travel Update! - The Suffolk County Half Marathon will be taking place this Sunday, resulting in closures on Nichols Road between the Long Island Expressway and Rt. 347. Please use these directions to get to the convention on Sunday.

Mar 22, 2006 - New I-CON Community - ICON Science Fiction, Inc. is proud to announce its new project, community.iconsf.org. Designed to encourage community involvement and the open sharing of ideas and information, community.iconsf.org is our new hub for everyone who is interested in Science Fiction, Fact, and Fantasy (and Gaming, Anime, and everything else you might see at I-CON - and likely a whole lot more!). We encourage you all to stop in, take a look, and speak your mind - this site was created to allow you to immerse yourself further in the things that matter to you (and us).

Mar 22, 2006 - Indie Film Schedule - In addition to the main schedule and gaming schedule linked from our home page, the Indie Film schedule is now online. Also, an HTML (webpage) version of the schedule is coming soon, we thank everyone for their patience.

Mar 21, 2006 - Schedule Coming Soon Posted! - We know that many of you were anxiously awaiting the schedule for I-CON. Well, it's here! Go to the site index and check it out to see everything what I-CON 25 has in store for you!

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Website: http://www.richardhatch.com/

As an actor, Richard Hatch has enjoyed international recognition for more than two decades. He has starred in such series as The Streets of San Francisco for which he won Germany's Bravo Award, the equivalent of an Emmy Award, and Battlestar Galactica for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. These two series continue to play throughout the world today. In addition, Richard originated the role of Philip Brent on ABC’s All My Children. Richard is currently playing the continuing character of Tom Zarek on the SciFi Channel's reimagined production of Battlestar Galactica.

Richard began his theatrical career with the Los Angeles Repertory Theater. He starred Off-Broadway in several plays and musicals including the Obie Award winning play, PS Your Cat Is Dead in Chicago. Most recently, Richard starred in the musical Pepper Street and The Name Game in Los Angeles. In addition, Richard has starred in such movies for television as The Hatfield’s And The McCoy’s with Jack Palance, Addie And The Kings Of Hearts with Jason Robards, Last Of The Belles with Susan Sarandon, The Class Of 65, The Hustler Of Muscle Beach, and the cult classic Deadman’s Curve in which he portrayed Jan Berry of the musical group “Jan and Dean”. He has also guest starred in numerous television series including Dynasty, T.J. Hooker, MacGyver, Murder She Wrote, and Jake and the Fatman. His feature film credits include Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen with Michelle Pfeiffer, The Jungle, Prisoners of the Lost Universe, African Fever and Party Line. Furthermore, Richard starred in The Hitchhikers, an adaptation of the Eudora Welty short story, with Patty Duke, Second Chance with Arte Johnson and Renaissance in which he starred and associate produced. Most recently, Richard completed filming The Battle for Mono Lake, a documentary, which he hosted and narrated, the feature films Iron Thunder and Unseen, both genre films, The Ghost, in which he stars with Michael Madsen and Brad Dourif and The Rainmakers with Jake Busey. Richard can currently be heard on Quaker Oat Meal television commercials in addition to other voice-over work.

Richard has written a series of Battlestar Galactica hardback novels for Byron Preiss Publications. The first book, Armageddon was released in July 1997 and the first edition sold out in only three weeks. The second book Warhawk was released in September 1998, followed in May 2001 by the third book of the series, Resurrection. The epic odyssey continues with Rebellion, released in 2002, Paradise, in July 2003 and Destiny, out Spring 2004. Richard's seventh BG novel "Redemption" was released 2005. In addition he has also written Battlestar Galactica stories for Extreme Comics and Realm Press. In 1999, Richard wrote, co-directed and executive-produced a 4 minute Battlestar Galactica Trailer which not only won acclaims at science-fiction conventions but also in the worldwide press. At present, Richard's just completed filming his other pet project, a seventeen minute theatrical trailer for his new Science Fiction series, The Great War of Magellan, which he created, wrote, produced and directed for his production company MerlinQuest Entertainment Inc. In addition he just made a deal to write a trilogy of Magellan hardback novels, the first of which will be out in the spring. He is in discussions to create a series and/or video game based on the Magellan story. 2005 brought the debut of The Great War of Magellan comic book produced by Blam Comics. Richard also gave his voice to the character "Paulus" on the Battlestar Galactica prequel game for PlayStation 2 & XBox.