How to Become an Audiobook Narrator

Event date:
Saturday, May 30
Event time:
12:15pm-1:15pm
Location:
Brower Center, Tamalpais Room
Audiences:
Booksales:
Book Society, in the lobby of the venue

Join award-winning narrators in this workshop to explore the diversity of a voice acting career! Learn from Elisabeth Lagelée, a multilingual Audie Award-winning voice actor and improviser based in San Francisco, who records from her professional home studio and specializes in fantasy, romance, and historical fiction. With experience in audiobook narration, production and teaching, Society of Voice Arts finalist and Earphones Award-winning Ann Richardson will guide attendees through the process of putting their work into audio via various platforms. This informative workshop, moderated by author Pamela Kelly, is welcome to all who are curious about voice acting!

Moderators:

Dan Alter

Dan Alter’s poems, reviews and translations have been published in journals including Field, Fourteen Hills, and Zyzzyva; his first collection My Little Book of Exiles won the 2022 Cowan Poetry Prize. A volume of translations Take a Breath, You’re Getting Excited, from the Hebrew of Yakir Ben-Moshe, was published by Ben Yehuda Press in September 2024, and Hills Full of Holes, a second collection of poems, by Fernwood Press in March 2025. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley. He works at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley.

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