Narrator

Jessica Almasy

Jessica Almasy--actress, theater teacher, and founding member of the New York City-based theater company called The TEAM--was unconsciously preparing to be an audiobook narrator even as a youngster. "I'd get a 90-minute cassette tape, pop it into the recorder, and just talk for pretty much the whole afternoon. I'd be all sorts of characters, devised by me. I was writing little audio dramas." In 2004 Claudia Howard at Recorded Books saw Jessica in a play at the NYC Fringe and asked her to come in to read. "She gave me my intro to the lay of the land of audiobooks and how to be a professional narrator," says Jessica, who has now recorded over 80 titles, including the Earphones Award-winning Clementine series and OPERATION YES, for which she won the 2010 Audie Award for Children's Titles for Ages 8-12.