Johanna Parker

Dialects: British, Irish, Australian, French, German, Eastern European, Brooklyn, NJ, MA, Southern U.S. ETC!

Two-time Audie nominated audiobook narrator. Winner of Audiofile's 2006 Earphones Award. Voices the best-selling Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire series. Narrator of over 40 (to date) audiobooks for Recorded Books Productions--from Meg Cabot's teen ghost-busting Mediator series to Earlene Fowler's cowgirl mysteries to Richard Feynman non-fiction to Lisa Wingate romances to Jennifer Weiner's best-selling chick-lit. Plays each and every character with verve and/or restraint: 4oo year old Viking Vampires, Texan men, young children, French Queens, Spanish loverboys, teenybopper cheerleaders, and so on. Narrates with ease, tenderness, passion and guts. A sought after and gifted voiceover actress in the SF Bay Area and beyond, Johanna has voiced commercials for John Muir, Lasik 1, Enclara, and Citi to name a few. She has also been lucky enough to work in several video games including Tom Clancy's Rogue Spear and Electronic Art's upcoming Gnome Project. A Kliatt review for her reading of Meghan Daum's The Quality of Life Report states, "Parker reads the story like someone who has been there and done that, with just the right amount of affection, cynicism, and acceptance in her voice." Of her recording of Texas Cooking by Lisa Wingate, Audiofile said: "Johanna Parker reads this first-person narrative as if she's living it." And of the audiobook for Charlaine Harris's Definitely Dead, Audiofile raved: "Parker personifies Harris's perky Southern heroine, Sookie Stackhouse, the telepathic cocktail waitress of Bon Temps, Louisiana. Parker buoyantly and cheerfully reads this engaging but bizarre tale peopled with vampires, "were people," demons, and other supernaturals. Sookie travels to New Orleans to clear out the apartment of her dead cousin, where she finds an apparently dead body. The multitude of characters are well developed, and Parker easily differentiates them. The story uniquely blends mystery, humor, romance, and the supernatural, and Parker's clear, coherent delivery adds credibility and accents the subtlety of the humor and intrigue. Her easy reading style adds immensely to the listening experience. S.C.A. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine BFA in acting from Boston University; Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, Shakespeare Course; Wendy Dillon voiceover coaching; Phantom Audio and Wendy Dillon coaching. Folksinging.