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Joniece Abbott-Pratt | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Iowa |
Notable awards | Audie Award for Short Stories or Collections (2022) |
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Joniece Abbott-Pratt is an American actor and audiobook narrator. Her narrations have won her 14 Earphones Award s from AudioFile. Along with co-narrators, she also won the 2022 Audie Award for Short Stories or Collections for Blackout. [1] [2]
Abbott-Pratt was raised in Philadelphia. [3] She earned a bachelor's degree at Clark Atlanta University, [4] and a Master of Fine Arts degree in acting from the University of Iowa. [5] [6] While at Iowa she appeared in a 2004 hip-hop adaptation of the Greek tragedy Seven Against Thebes, [7] and in a 2005 production of Suzan-Lori Parks' In the Blood, directed by Tisch Jones. [8]
Abbott-Pratt has performed in numerous regional theater productions, [9] [10] as well as on television shows. [5] In 2002, she was a teen actress in Kia Corthron's Breath, Boom in Atlanta. [11] In 2009, she co-starred in Tracey Scott Wilson's The Good Negro in Hartford and New York. [12] In 2013 she co-starred in a production of Lydia R. Diamond's Stick Fly in Philadelphia. [13] In 2014 she appeared in Marcus Gardley's The House that Will Not Stand in New Haven. [14] She has appeared in several plays by August Wilson, including Gem of the Ocean with Novella Nelson and Stephen Tyrone Williams in Hartford in 2011, [15] and Seven Guitars in Louisville in 2015. [16] Also in 2015, she co-starred with Keith Randolph Smith in Dominique Morisseau's Sunset Baby, [17] and with Royce Johnson in Katori Hall's The Mountaintop. [18] In 2019 she starred in Too Heavy for Your Pocket, a drama about the Freedom Riders by Jireh Breon Holder, at the George Street Playhouse in New Jersey. [19]
Abbott-Pratt is an adjunct instructor in drama at New York University. [20]
Abbott-Pratt was named "Best Emerging Actress" in 2003, by the Atlanta Constitution . [21] In 2020, AudioFile included Abbott-Pratt's narration of Jordan Ifueko's Raybearer on their list of the best young adult audiobooks of the year, [22] and in 2021, they included her narration of Ifueko's Redemptor on their list of the best young adult audiobooks of the year. [23]
In 2022, AudioFile and Literary Hub named Abbott-Pratt's narration of Nightcrawling among the best fiction audiobooks of the year. [24] [25]
Year | Title | Media | Role | Notes |
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2007 | Why Did I Get Married? | Film | College Student #3 | |
2013 | Grand Theft Auto V | Video game | Local Population (voice) | |
2015 | American Odyssey | TV | Margaret | 1 episode |
2015 | Orange Is the New Black | TV | Ultrasound technician | 1 episode |
2015 | Show Me A Hero | TV | Woman | 2 episodes |
2016 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | TV |
| 2 episodes |
2017 | Blindspot | TV | Charly Evon | 1 episode |
2018 | Instinct | TV | Ashley | 1 episode |
2016-2018 | Luke Cage | TV | Etta Lucas | 2 episodes |
2019 | The Good Fight | TV | Monique Cromley | 1 episode |
2020 | FBI: Most Wanted | TV | Michelle Carter | 1 episode |
2020 | The Annex | TV | Joniece | |
2021 | Evil | TV | Ashley | 1 episode |
2022 | Dynasty | TV | Nurse Julia | 1 episode |
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