Audiobook Narration for Actors

Details

  • 19 August 2021
    12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Online
Applications Open 5 August 2021 10:00 am
Applications Close 18 August 2021 8:00 pm
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Synopsis

Join actor/audiobook narrator Jennifer Vuletic and audiobook/podcast producer Justine Sloane Leys  with Asabi Goodman chairing -  for a discussion about the process of audiobook narration and everything actors need to know who are interested in working in this field. There will be plenty of time for audience questions.        

Host(s)

  • Jennifer Vuletic

    A 1984 NIDA alumnus, Jennifer’s work compasses the industry. Recently seen as Mandy the Mullet in FOXTEL’s Wentworth, and as Enid Holdstock in Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries, she currently plays Gertrude in Malthouse’s Because The Night. Stage credits include The Rabble’s My Dearworthy Darling (Malthouse), Arbus & West (MTC) Merciless Gods (Little Ones Theatre/Griffin Theatre Company), Suddenly Last Summer ( Red Stitch/Little Ones), Moral Panic (dir. Bridget Balodis), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (dir. Roger Hodgman), Tanya in Mamma Mia (2003-2005, 2009-2010) and Barry Kosky’s Women of Troy (STC). Awards include Sydney Theatre Critic’s Circle Award (The Baroness in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, also receiving Helpmann and Green Room nominations), a Green Room Award (Merciless Gods), and Green Room Award nominations for Women of Troy and Nightingale and the Rose. The voice of innumerable SBS Television documentaries, she is a sought-after audio book narrator.
  • Asabi Goodman

    Asabi is an American born, Australian entertainer with almost 40 years of experience in vocal and stage performance. She studied chemical engineering at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA), where she was a founding member of the awarding winning, all female a cappella group, The USC Sirens, and has an Advanced Diploma in Stage and Screen Acting from the Australian Performing Arts Conservatory in Brisbane. Asabi has spent many years honing her performance skills by singing with various chorales, performing in several musical and staged theatre productions, and singing in bands. Asabi is also trained in intimacy choreography for stage and screen, having studied under renowned intimacy coaches, Alicia Rodis (Intimacy Directors & Coordinators) and Nigel Poulton (Intimacy Coordinators Australia). She has worked as an intimacy coordinator for the Australian Performing Arts Conservatory, Griffith University, and various independent theatre and film companies. From 2022 through 2023, Asabi starred in the Australian national touring production of Hairspray! The Musical as Motormouth Maybelle alongside Australian theatre greats such as Rhonda Burchmore, Todd McKenney, and Shane Jacobson. The production toured to Melbourne, Adelaide, and Sydney before closing in April 2023. After the show's closing, Asabi was invited to join the US Broadway touring production of Hairspray and performed during the final six weeks of the tour in the United States. From the end of 2023, Asabi will be stepping into the role of Matron "Mama" Morton in the Australian touring production of CHICAGO. Joining her onstage are Anthony Warlow, Zoë Ventoura, Lucy Maunder, and Peter Rowsthorn. Asabi is the president of Queensland Equity and has been a proud member of Equity since 2013.

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