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    Voices to Know

    AudioFile's newest showcase of award-winning narrators

    

    EARPHONES REPORT Aug-Oct 2025

    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—includes contact information and pseudonyms.

    Link directly to reviews and complete profiles of narrators creating exceptional audio.
    AND coming soon...updated web pages!
    Caroline Hewitt

    Caroline Hewitt


    The third-person fiction storyteller’s job-one – narrating from inside the head (POV) of who or what you’re talking about – is epitomized by storyteller Caroline Hewitt. Her narration of THE FRENCH WINEMAKER'S DAUGHTER intimately emerges from within the psyches of this pre- and post-World War II saga’s central characters. Hewitt’s storyteller hovers within her characters, as if intimately braided to their hearts and souls. She discovers, along with them, the people, places and events they encounter. And then intimately connects their feelings generated by those discoveries to the listener. In this way storyteller Hewitt enjoins the listener to react to her characters’ feelings, for better or worse. 
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    Rob Shapiro


    Rob Shapiro narrates CRUMB: A Cartoonist's Life as if seated across two people at a small table nestled in the corner of a quiet café. His performance demeanor is wholly understated. Yet, it is emotionally affecting. How so? Ironically, the understatement itself unleashes listeners’ imagination, and intimately coaxes them to engage the very untypical life of an artist known for his overtly pornographic work. Shapiro’s performance intimacy results largely from commensurate volume (less voice), and allowing his connection to the narrative’s feelings (subtext) to dictate his understated narration, as opposed to disconnectedly presenting the words. Thus, listeners are intimately propelled to engage Crumb’s very untypical life and work.           
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    Elizabeth Knowelden


    MILLIE FLEUR SAVES THE NIGHT, a children’s read-along where nocturnal creatures roam in the night’s dark, embodies the storyteller’s duel commandments when narrating for pre-school listeners: emphatic narration that safely kindles their sense of wonder while taking the story and characters seriously. By affecting a voice flavored with softness and sprinkled with a hint of stage-whisper that acts to hold her young listeners’ hands, narrator Elizabeth Knowelden intrepidly guides them along. Together, they discover for the first time, not only myriad odd events and eerie feelings, but the exhilarating language to expressively express what is oddly encountered and eerily felt. Oh, the children’s hands? Knowelden never lets go.
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    Gabra Zackman


    THE CARPOOL DETECTIVES: A True Story of Four Moms, Two Bodies, and One Mysterious Cold Case is a so-called ‘true crime’ mystery. Narrator Gabra Zackman recognizes that ‘true crime’ is a genre—such as sci-fi, romance, coming-of-age memoir, etc.—and therefore not actable. Rather than vocally affecting (non-believably presenting, indicating, imitating) a true crime persona, actor-Zackman’s non-fiction storyteller faithfully contacts the author’s emotional outcome: to connect listeners viscerally to this diabolical, and compelling, mystery. Additionally, and of equal importance, to subtly flavor (as this is non-fiction) the story’s various personages with just enough emotional dimension to maintain listeners’ connection to their feelings.
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    Highlights of single-voice narrations getting recent

    Earphones Awards:

    Elisabeth Rodgers

    

    The moment she narrates the title, Elisabeth Rodgers seizes listeners’ attention to THE IDAHO FOUR: An American Tragedy. Speaking as the non-fiction storyteller must (as if she is the author because to her audience she is) Rodgers’ felt connection to this consequential story exhorts listeners: get ready to be as utterly engrossed as me! Importantly, Rodgers’ consistently fulfills the non-fiction narrator’s fundamental obligation: visceral connection to this story’s gravity, which permits that feeling to dictate tone, pace, and emphasis. Even when reenacting various characters’ dialogue, Rodgers never gives them dimension. That’s fiction’s project. Her non-fiction storyteller remains focused on deepening the listeners’ immersion in this incredible, stranger than fiction tale. 
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    Ella Lynch

    

    “Energy” is an ambiguous description, whose presence or lack thereof is often cited to differentiate the professional actor from an amateur. Unpacking performance energy begins with: it is the sum of its performance parts. Throughout her narration of THE SUMMER WAR, Ella Lynch imbues her third-person narrator with energy’s fundamental parts. She is wholly committed to locating herself inside her characters’ heads (POV). There, she discovers their feelings and the emotional stakes in the moment, just as they do. Commensurately, she connects their feelings and the stakes to listeners. It is Lynch’s connection to the feelings and stakes from within her characters that creates her energy and exceptional storytelling.
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    Narrators in ensemble narrations are also garnering Earphones Awards:

     

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

    Edoardo Ballerini, Kimberly Farr, Dion Graham, Hillary Huber

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    Thanks to audiobook director Paul Alan Ruben for his contributions to Voices to Know.

    Voices to Know Vol 10, 2025
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