Related Research Articles
Jim Dale is an English actor, composer, director, narrator, singer and songwriter. In the United Kingdom he is known as a pop singer of the 1950s who became a leading actor at the National Theatre. In British film, along with Angela Douglas and Jacki Piper he is now one of just a few surviving actors to star in multiple Carry On films.
The Audie Awards, or simply the Audies, are awards for achievement in spoken word, particularly audiobook narration and audiodrama performance, published in the United States of America. They are presented by the Audio Publishers Association (APA) annually in March.
Beata Poźniak is a Polish-American actress, film director, poet, painter and an Earphones Award-winning narrator. She is also a human rights activist who introduced the first bill in the history of US Congress to officially recognize International Women's Day in the United States.
Julia May Whelan is an American actress, narrator and author. As an actress, she is best known for her role as Grace Manning on the television family drama series Once and Again (1999–2002), and her co-starring role in the 2002 Lifetime movie The Secret Life of Zoey. A noted child actor, Whelan first appeared on screen at the age of 11 and continued to take television roles until her matriculation into Middlebury College in 2004; Whelan graduated magna cum laude from Middlebury in 2008 after spending the 2006–2007 academic year as a visiting student at Lincoln College, Oxford. Whelan returned to film acting in November 2008 with a role in the fantasy thriller Fading of the Cries. In the 2010s, Whelan stepped away from her acting career to become an audiobook narrator. As of July 2022, she has narrated over 400 audiobooks. In 2018, she published her debut novel My Oxford Year.
Daniel Max Weyman is an English actor notable for his main roles in Just Inès (2010), Foyle's War (2013), and Silent Witness (2016), and more recently known for his role as The Stranger / Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022–present).
AudioFile is a print and online magazine whose mission is to review "unabridged and abridged audiobooks, original audio programs, commentary, and dramatizations in the spoken-word format. The focus of reviews is the audio presentation, not the critique of the written material." AudioFile is published six times a year in Portland, Maine.
Scott Brick is an American actor, writer and award-winning narrator of over 800 audiobooks, including popular titles such as Washington: A Life, Moneyball, and Cloud Atlas. He has narrated works for a number of high-profile authors, including Tom Clancy, Robert Ludlum, Michael Crichton, Clive Cussler and John Grisham.
Susan Duerden is a British actress and audiobook narrator. Her roles include the character of Carole Littleton in the television series Lost. She has performed on television, film, and theater.
Holter Ford Graham is an American actor and voice actor and the son of historian Hugh Davis Graham. He appeared in his first film, Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive, at age thirteen. He is best known for his film work in John Waters’ original Hairspray; the Oscar-nominated Fly Away Home; Six Ways to Sunday; Spin the Bottle; and Offspring, as well as his television work on Damages, Rescue Me, Law & Order, Army Wives, and New York Undercover. From 2008–2010, Graham was the co-host of Planet Green’s series Wasted. Since 2000, Graham has been the voice of HBO, and has narrated more than 150 audio books, winning dozens of awards for his work.
The Voice From the Edge is a series of audiobooks collecting short stories written and narrated by American author Harlan Ellison. The first two volumes were published by Fantastic Audio; they were republished by Blackstone Audio in 2011. The uploading of these audio books to a newsgroup on the internet led to a court case to decide the liability of a service provider according to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The fourth volume was published by Audible.
Barbara Rosenblat is a British actress. She is best known as a prolific narrator of audiobooks, for which AudioFile named her a Golden Voice. She has also appeared on screen such as in the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black as the character Miss Rosa.
Jenna Lamia is an American actress, writer, and audiobook narrator. She developed the Netflix limited series The Perfect Couple, and also served as its showrunner.
Joe Ide is an American crime fiction writer of Japanese descent.
Simon Vance is an audiobook narrator and actor who performs contemporary literary works as well as classics, children's books, and nonfiction. He has won 16 Audie Awards since 2002. Specializing in single-voice narration, he was named the American Library Association's Booklist Magazine Voice of Choice in 2008, and has earned AudioFile Magazine's Earphones Award for more than 60 performances since 1998. He has also narrated audiobooks under the names of Richard Matthews and Robert Whitfield. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Marisa Calin is an American-born English actress, writer and producer.
Cathleen McCarron is a Scottish film, television, theatre and audiobook actor and professional voice coach.
Robin Miles is an American actor, casting director, audiobook narrator and audiobook director. Miles has acted in Broadway shows and on TV shows including Law & Order and Murder by Numbers. She is best known for her audiobook narrations and narration director work for which she has won numerous awards, including Audie Awards, AudioFile Golden Voice, and Earphone Awards. Miles is revered in her field and is credited as one of the audiobook narrators saving the publishing industry. In 2017, Miles was inducted into Audible's Narrator Hall of Fame. Miles also has a voice training school, VOXpertise, for aspiring narrators. She has narrated over 300 books. Miles specializes in recreating "accents and speech patterns from around the globe."
Susan Ericksen is an American actress and audiobook narrator.
Davina Porter is a British audiobook narrator and actor, best known for narrating the unabridged audiobooks of the Outlander series of novels by Diana Gabaldon. Since the 1960s she has been based in the United States, and she began narrating books on tape in the mid-1980s.
David Colacci is an actor and audiobook narrator. He is married to audiobook narrator and actress Susan Ericksen.
References
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-06-16. Retrieved 2013-07-09.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ Regis, Pamela (2013). A Natural History of the Romance Novel. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. Location 1376. ISBN 978-0812233032.
- ↑ "HEDGEHOGINC.COM". www.hedgehoginc.com. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
- ↑ "AudioFile: 20 20 - The Year in Audiobooks 2013". digital.audiofilemagazine.com. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
- ↑ "APA - Audio Publishers Association - the voice of the audiobook industry - Audies". www.audiopub.org. Archived from the original on 2016-03-17. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
