The Audiobook Committee Presents Audiobooks for Beginners

The SAG-AFTRA Chicago Audiobooks Committee is thrilled to welcome narrators Andi Arndt and Jeffrey Kafer to Chicago to work with Chicago members who want to break into the world of audiobooks.

This session for beginners (and those who want a refresher) will include interactive readings with Arndt giving feedback on character differentiation and other performance tips. This will be followed by a Q&A with Arndt and Kafer sharing narrating info and advice to anyone looking to start a career in audiobook narration.

If you’re interested in being a participant in the interactive session, you will need to bring three (3) copies of your 1-page reading selection. When you check-in, we will collect names for a lottery selection.

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Multiple Audie Award winner Andi Arndt has narrated hundreds of titles for all major publishers across many genres, and she also works with many of today's best selling indie romance authors as a narrator and as executive producer of Lyric Audiobooks. The recipient of multiple Audie, Earphones and Voice Arts Awards, twice named to AudioFile Magazine's Best Voices of the Year, Andi was inducted into the Audible Narrator Hall of Fame in 2018. Her notable audiobooks include Kylie Scott's Stage Dive series, Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik, the junior novelization of Disney's Frozen, and Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates.

Jeffrey Kafer is a full-time SAG-AFTRA audiobook narrator and consultant. He has narrated over 500 books in almost every genre for such authors Clive Barker, Steve Alten, Maya Banks, Gregg Olsen and many others. He has two degrees in cinema and broadcasting and spent the first part of his career as a video game tester for Microsoft before following his true passion of acting. He’s been on stage since he was 13 (his mom still has the bellhop costume she made) and currently lives in Los Angeles with his family and dog. Visit him at http://audiobookmentor.com.