Audiobook Narration Intensive
3-hour workshop on beginner audiobook narration.
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All of our classes and training sessions are being offered over Zoom. A Zoom link will be sent out shortly before the class for all participants. We do offer select in-person classes, which are denoted on the website.
All class times are listed in the Eastern Time zone.
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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 6, 2025 |
Thursday 2/6 6:00pm – 9:00pm ET $200 |
Are you curious about audiobook narration? Are you an audiobook listener and interested to know how audiobooks get made? This one-night workshop is just the place to learn the basics!
In this 3 hour workshop, students will get an overview of the industry and skills needed to be an audiobook narrator, as well as:
Technique
Explore narration techniques, including pacing, narration vs. dialogue, and how to create real and nuanced characters.
Industry
Learn about the audiobook and publishing industries and the narrator’s workflow.
Next Steps
Find out next steps for studying narration, how to put together an audiobook demo, and additional resources for continuing your audiobook journey.
Class notes: Students should bring a piece of 2 minute copy from a book, fiction or non-fiction. If it is fiction, it should include dialogue. No children’s books, explicit language, violence or sex.
Piper Goodeve is an Audie Award winning narrator of over 350 titles for indie authors and major publishers, including Audible Studios, Harper, Dreamscape, Podium, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster. A multiple Earphones Award winner, she has recorded in numerous genres including new works by Alison Bechdel, Meg Cabot, Elinor Lipman, and John Irving, and classics by L.M Montgomery and Thornton Wilder. Passionate about teaching and education, Piper has taught acting and audiobook narration classes/workshops at colleges and universities, including StoneStreet Studios at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, as well as at The Voice Shop and CAST at Ripley-Grier. Her directing credits include audiobooks read by Kathryn Grody, Art Garfunkel, Brian Dennehy, and Audra McDonald. She holds an MFA from Brown University/Trinity Rep and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sassy cats.
48 hours notice before any class is required to cancel or reschedule without incurring a fee.
No refund will be given if you cancel within 48 hours of a class or do not show up.
50% refund will be given if you reschedule within 48 hours of a class.
We reserve the right to cancel a class if fewer than the minimum number of students enroll.