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AudioFile's newest showcase of award-winning narrators

EARPHONES REPORT JANUARY-JUNE 2023

Find the narrators who are getting the best reviews and coveted Earphones Awards.

AudioFile's updated Talent Guide gives expanded details on the audiobook experience and accomplishments of hundreds of narrators.

Link directly to reviews and complete profiles of narrators creating exceptional audio.

Sophie Amoss

Two noteworthy performance attributes emerge through PHALAINA, narrated by Sophie Amoss, both of which emotionally seize the listener: reacting and discovery. In this exemplary sentence—“She sat for a moment, and reflected on the possibility of rolling herself into a ball there, in a thicket, and waiting, but waiting for what?”—we palpably experience the character’s dissonant reaction to her reflection, to the waiting, and to the pained discovery that precedes, “but waiting for what.” This nuanced performance separates reader from storyteller.

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Ferdelle Capistrano

In her first-person narration of THIS IS NOT A PERSONAL STATEMENT Ferdelle Capistrano maintains her organic connection to the sense of urgency percolating beneath the narrative. We are reminded that something is always at stake for the fictional teen protagonist—and her swirling, conflicted thoughts are reflected in Capistrano’s believable narration. This connection is foundational to creating a dimensional character who feels like a real-life human being. Thanks to Capistrano’s empathetic performance, we always care to listen.

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Highlights of single-voice narrations getting recent

Earphones Awards:

Shiromi Arserio: LEARNED BY HEART by Emma Donoghue
Mark Bramhall: THE REOPENING OF THE WESTERN MIND by Charles Freeman
Carlotta Brentan: JUST A GIRL by Lisa Levi
Pete Cross: ELF DOG AND OWL HEAD by M.T. Anderson
Nicky Endres: TELL ME I'M WORTHLESS by Alison Rumfit
Billie Fulford-Brown: THE LATE MRS. WILLOUGHBY by Claudia Gray
Tavia Gilbert: OF SALT AND SHORE by Annet Schaap & A GIRL CALLED SAMSON by Amy Harmon
Stacey Glemboski: SMALL WORLD by Laura Zigman
Matt Godfrey: STALKING SHAKESPEARE by Lee Durkee
Kitty Hendrix: AN ASSASSIN IN UTOPIA by Susan Wels
Cindy Kay: FINALLY SEEN by Kelly Yang
Barrie Kreinik: A HOUSE FULL OF WINDSORS by Kristin Contino
Katherine Littrell: THE DOG OF THE NORTH by Elizabeth McKenzie
Christine Mascot: MARRIAGE: FROM THE FEMININE PERSPECTIVE by Christine Mascot
Gilli Messer: HAPPILY by Sabrina Orah Mark & FREE RADICALS by Lila Riesen
Courtney Patterson: PESTS by Bethany Brookshire
Thérèse Plummer: LOVE, THEORETICALLY by Ali Hazelwood & MURDER AT BLACK OAKS by Philip Margolin
Elisabeth Rodgers: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Channie Waites: WILD, BEAUTIFUL, AND FREE by Sophronia Scott
Elizabeth Wiley: BLANCHE by Nancy Schoenberger
Mara Wilson: SCORCHED GRACE by Margot Douaihy
Eunice Wong: VERA WONG'S UNSOLICITED ADVICE FOR MURDERERS by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Deepti Gupta

In her engaging narration of

THE BOOK OF EVERLASTING THINGS Deepti Gupta embodies intimate storytelling. And it is this intimacy—as if the narrator is leaning in to relate a story to a friend seated across a table in a quiet café—that emotionally connects the listener to the novel's myriad and nuanced emotional stakes. Thanks to this connection, we listen actively, involved in the characters’ lives as if what is occurring to them is happening not in the past but the here and now.

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Daniel Henning

Throughout his narration of IN THE LIVES OF PUPPETS, a queer/sci-fi retelling of Pinocchio, Daniel Henning wends his way through a fantastical story that braids fantastical characters and scenarios. He consistently navigates this genre’s most important performance challenge: taking his characters seriously! In so doing, Henning reminds us that even the most fantastical characters do not know they’re fantastical; in their mind, they are emotional beings, sentient, real, not one-dimensional caricatures; therefore, they expect their storyteller to take them seriously.

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Narrators in ensemble narrations are also garnering Earphones Awards:

Jonathan Beville, Nancy Bober, Nicky Endres, and Cary Hite: RIKERS: An Oral History by Graham Rayman, Reuven Blau
Joe Arden, Andi Arndt: RISE OF THE MACHINE by Erin Mallon
Nancy Wu, Erin Moon: GIVING THE DEVIL HIS DUE by Lee Murray, Jason Sanford, et al.
Stephen Graybill, Rachel L. Jacobs, Barrie Kreinik, Jesse Vilinsky, Braden Wright, Gabra Zackman: NO TWO PERSONS by Erica Bauermeister
Janina Edwards, Leon Nixon: MASTER SLAVE HUSBAND WIFE by Ilyon Woo
Ferdelle Capistrano, Gail Shalan, Caitlin Davies, Kirby Heyborne: WHAT HAPPENED TO RACHEL RILEY? by Claire Swinarski
Cynthia Farrell, Dominique Franceschi, Aida Reluzco, Gary Tiedemann: THE FARAWAY WORLD by Patricia Engel
Rebecca H. Lee: FOR LAMB by Lesa Cline-Ransome
William Merryn Hill: LOVE AT FIRST PSYCH by Cara Bastone
Jesse Vilinsky: THE LOST YEAR by Katherine Marsh
Shiromi Arserio, Jennifer Aquino, Gary Tiedemann: A HISTORY OF FEAR by Luke Dumas
Catherine Ho: PATCHWORK by Matt de la Peña
Chris Andrew Ciulla, Xe Sands: STAR TREK; PICARD: NO MAN'S LAND by Kristen Beyer, Mike Johnson
Cindy Kay, Catherine Ho: BANYAN MOON by Thao Thai
Ron Butler, Gary Tiedemann, Josh Bloomberg: THE NEW EARTH by Jess Row
Leon Nixon, Cary Hite, Ron Butler: RACHEL: A Play in Three Acts by Angelina Weld Grimké
Lee Osorio: CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Anna Caputo: CITY UNDER ONE ROOF by Iris Yamashita

And naturally, AudioFile's GOLDEN VOICE narrators rack up their share of Earphones Awards:

Robin Miles, Edoardo Ballerini, Dion Graham, Grover Gardner, Johnny Heller,

January LaVoy, Barbara Rosenblat, Simon Vance, Emily Woo Zeller

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