I have been a narrator since 2009 for Blackstone Audio, Brilliance Audio, Hachette, Harper, Simon and Schuster, and Tantor Audio and I'd love to work with you, too. I bring a lifetime of acting experience on stage, TV and film to the performance of story. Whether I am narrating Southern historical fiction, the memoir of a heroine's journey, business management or self-help, I will draw the listener into your story with authenticity. I bring my considerable acting talent to the depiction of setting, illumination of character and emotional subtext. My keen musical ear (FSU degree in vocal music) and attention to detail ... more enable me to depict a wide array of accents, especially the many dialects of rural and urban regions of the Southeastern U.S. An award-winning documentary narrator, I bring both warmth and authority to non-fiction as well. I am a non-fiction natural. With a talent for empathy, I can convey the passion of the non-fiction writer in history, business, and other genres. I am an experienced teacher with over 20 years as an adjunct professor at Emory University School of Law teaching artful advocacy and storytelling using theater arts. An experienced live performer, I am tuned to the needs of audiences ranging from 1 to hundreds. Singing and acting on stage since the age of 14, I have a keen sense of what is needed to hold someone's attention. ​ I am adept at delivering authentic accents and learning to realistically speak in foreign languages. I earned a music degree in voice at Florida State where I was classically trained in French and Italian art songs and German lieder. I continued my exploration of foreign language songs, singing in Russian and Eastern European languages as well as Portuguese and Spanish. I have the ability to match accents as well as my own recordings, even those done years earlier. ​ I make dense language understandable and entertaining. I studied acting at Atlanta's acclaimed Alliance Theatre and racked up classical credits in Shakespeare, Ibsen, Moliere and Goethe in theaters in the region. Contemorary credits include many works of Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller​, Becket, Peter Shaffer and A.R. Gurney. ​ I have a strong sense of comedic timing. I worked for 10 years as the zany singing comedienne, “Bambola,” vocalist of The DeLuxe Vaudeville Orchestra (a touring variety show band). I can spin plates. Really. I can find and deliver the musicality of a text. After my classical singing, I segued into jazz, interpreting the Great American Songbook and recording two solo vocal jazz albums. My musical exploration continues as I delve deeper into vocal improvisation, studying with a protege of Bobby McFerrin. ​ less