Cocktail Reception - Sponsored by Deyan Audio

Special Offers For Narrator Track Attendees:

• DEEP discount on your AudioFile talent listing - AudioFile Magazine has a special 50% discount on your AudioFile Profile for narrators attending APAC 2013! To get this discount, be sure to click the checkbox on the Sessions page next to "AudioFile Profile Add-on" during registration - it will appear after you've entered your badge information.
  AudioFile Guide Talent Listing Fee – $85
  
  
• Director Diagnostics - Are you totally new to the game and want feedback about all you've been practicing and preparing in order to be ready to work? Or are you a mid-career narrator who is eager to take your work to the next level? This special session is your opportunity to meet one-on-one with an expert director, casting director, producer, or narrator to identify opportunities for growth in your narration craft. (Space is limited and slots will be granted to interested attendees on a first-come, first-serve basis based on APAC registration date.)

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Concurrent sessions, choose from the following:

Translating Voiceover to Audiobooks
You've been working as a voiceover for years, doing commercials, promos, some medical narration, eLearning. You have a home studio, you produce finished tracks for your clients and send them off all day every day. Or you've listened to dozens of audiobooks, and everyone has told you that you have a fantastic voice, and you read voraciously. You're ready for audiobooks, right? Well, maybe not. What are the basic audiobook acting techniques that every pro audiobook narrator employs to create an expert performance each time? What skills carry over from the world of voiceover to the world of audiobooks, and what techniques should you leave behind? Moderator Pat Fraley and panelists Scott Brick, Hillary Huber, and Simon Vance will get you up to speed on what the demands of the audiobook narrator really are, how this genre of voice acting is different than any other, and what you need to do to be great in an ever-saturated marketplace.

Lunch

Concurrent sessions, choose from the following:

Concurrent sessions, choose from the following:

Concurrent sessions, choose from the following:

Director Diagnostics

Cocktail Reception

2013 APAC REGISTRATION FEES:

Once you get to the My APA Portal, log into your account, then register through the Online Store. All members or non members who have participated in our activities in the past already have an account. Retrieving your password is fast and easy through the Forgot your password feature. New visitors simply need to set up a visitor account, then register.

Group Registrations:

Companies registering multiple people from the same company for APAC are eligible for a discount for the additional registrants (see below).

If you are registering more than one attendee, you will need to register as a group—you will need to have the names of each attendee ready for a one-time registration.

NOTE: For member companies / non-member companies that already have an account in My APA Portal, the primary or secondary contact must register for the group to obtain the discount. If this is your first time visiting the My APA Portal, you will first need to register yourself through the New Visitor Registration form on the Login page, then follow the steps to “enter your organization info”, before you can register for the group.

If you have already registered as a group, but need to add additional attendees, please contact us at APA Headquarters to ensure you receive the discount.

Michelle Lee Cobb has served with the Audio Publishers Association (APA) board since 2001, as a director and an officer, and is currently President. As an APA board member she has represented the organization at numerous audiobook workshops and panels. Ms. Cobb began her audiobook career as Assistant Managing Director for L.A. Theatre Works. She is currently VP - Sales & Marketing for AudioGO-Blackstone (the home of BBC Audiobooks and Audio Bookshelf).

Dave Courvoiser is a perspicacious lover of big words. He's also a voice actor, blogger, father of three daughters, and married to their mother for 30 years. Early in the development of social networks, Dave adopted a prolific online profile and fascination with their trend-setting potential. He speaks at many conferences and in webinars on the subject. For 30+ years, he has been a broadcast journalist, and currently anchors three newscasts daily at the CBS affiliate in Las Vegas, Nevada. Dave has narrated for Audible, HighBridge, Oasis, Harper, and other publishers.

Megan Fitzpatrick is Associate Director of Marketing & Publicity for Hachette Audio, having begun her publishing career a decade ago wtih Penguin after graduating from the University of Notre Dame. In her current role, she oversees advertising, promotional materials, publicity, and marketing for the 300+ titles Hachette currently produces each year, including the three most recent winning Audiobook of the Year campaigns (for Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales, Keith Richards' Life, and Tina Fey's Bossypants). Megan also manages Hachette Audio's online presence, recently having built a SoundCloud following of over 230,000 for the publisher. She is active on the APA's PRE Committee and as a Director on the board of the Publishers Advertising and Marketing Association.

Patrick Fraley has been performing and teaching vocal performance for 40 years. As a performer, he has created voices for over 4,000 characters, placing him in the top ten of all time to be cast in animated TV shows. He began producing and narrating audiobooks 20 years ago and is a multiple Audie Award nominee and winner. As a teacher, he cherishes the fact that he has assisted many a talent in getting their "reading foot" in the Audiobook Door. "Simply put, Pat Fraley is the David Lean of Audiobook Producers. They don't get any better." - Craig Black, Founder of Blackstone Audio

Tavia Gilbert is an award-winning narrator with close to 200 audiobooks to her credit to date. School Library Journal has called the performances of this four-time Audie nominee and Earphones and Parent's Choice Award-winning actress "as close as you can get to a full cast narration with a solo voice." Classically trained in voice and theater, Tavia attended the University of Washington and earned her BFA in Acting from Cornish College of the Arts and her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts. In addition to her solo narration career, she has been the producer, director, and casting director of over thirty multi- and full-cast productions, working with adult and child actors.

Dion Graham, from HBO's The Wire, also narrates The First 48 on A&E. A multiple Audie Award-winning and critically acclaimed actor and narrator, he has performed on Broadway, off Broadway, internationally, in films, and in several hit television series. His performances have been praised as thoughtful and compelling, vivid and full of life.

Johnny Heller has won two Audie Awards out of the six times he's been nominated, which gives him an excellent .333 batting average. Heller has narrated and won praise for nearly 400 titles in every genre except for romance and erotica. An Audiofile Magazine multiple Earphone Award Winner; a top voice of 2011, 2009, and 2008; and a PW Listen Up winner in 2012, 2010, 2009, and 2008, Heller was named one of the Top 50 Narrators of the 20th Century. He lives in Manhattan with the lovely Jo Anna Perrin and their dogs Linus Van Pet and Tallulah Barkhead.

Heather Henderson is an audiobook narrator with a 20-year career in literary and performing arts. She has worked as a production dramaturg, theater critic, writing instructor, and arts journalist, focusing on voice acting since 1998. She holds a Doctor of Fine Arts degree in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama. With narrator Judith West, she maintains AudioEloquence.com, a pronunciation resource site for narrators. From her home studio in Oregon, Heather has recorded audiobooks for HighBridge Audio, Harper Audio, Blackstone Audio, Audible.com, Oasis Audio, Deyan Audio, Eljin Productions, and others.

Known as Lea Hensley online, Vicky Hensley has written the Speaking of Audiobooks column since 2009 and in 2012 co-founded AudioGals, a site dedicated to audiobooks in general, and romance in particular. An advocate for quality audiobooks, Vicky writes from the listener's perspective and takes particular interest in converting print readers into audio listeners. Together with six audio reviewers, Speaking of Audiobooks and AudioGals review romance, urban fantasy, mystery, classical, and women's fiction titles.

Katherine Kellgren has recorded over one hundred and seventy five audiobooks. She is a six-time winner of the Audie Award (including Best Solo Narration - Female), and among her titles are five recipients of the American Library Association's Odyssey Honor, as well as numerous Earphones Awards, Publishers Weekly Listen Up Awards, and ForeWord Magazine's Audiobook of the Year. She was Booklist Magazine's "Voice of Choice" for 2011, and has been added to AudioFile Magazine's list of Golden Voices. She has appeared onstage in London and New York, and is a graduate of The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Ralph Lazaro is responsible for leading Findaway World's digital initiatives through new product innovation and the development of new partnerships to enable the purchase, consumption, and delivery of audio content. Prior to joining Findaway, he led teams for various multi-billion dollar corporations, including his most recent role as VP of Digital Product Development at Baker & Taylor, Inc. Ralph attended Baylor University, where he studied finance and played for the Men's Lacrosse team.

Linda Lee is the Vice President/General Manager of Weston Woods Studios, the largest producer and distributor of audiovisual materials based on children's literature. In 2009, she also assumed responsibility as Vice President and General Manager of Scholastic Audio, the award-winning publisher of unabridged audiobooks for children and young adults. She is also the President of the Weston Woods Institute, a non-profit foundation dedicated to fostering children's literacy through the use of audiovisual media and Treasurer for the National Media Market, a non-profit organization focused on the dissemination of motion media in the educational market.

Producer/narrator/coach Robin Miles is an accent specialist, an AudioFile Golden Voice, and the winner of numerous awards (Audies, Earphones, "Best of the Year" designations). She is a veteran of Broadway, regional theater, TV/film, and museum exhibits from coast to coast. Her 200+ audiobook titles include the recent Cleopatra: A Life, The Warmth of Other Suns, and this year's Audie finalist The Freedom Maze. A coach and director with experience as an Assistant Professor of Speech at SUNY Purchase Theater Conservatory, Acting Teacher for the Neighborhood Playhouse, ESL Instructor at Kaplan's International Center, and Communication Coach to Merrill Lynch managers, Robin founded Voxpertise, a teaching and voice arts production studio. She holds a BA from Yale University, an MFA from the Yale School of Drama and a Certificate from the British American Drama Academie in England.

Brian Nash is a Business Development Executive with OverDrive. He has been with OverDrive for six years and works with publishers of eBooks, audiobooks, music and video to distribute their content through OverDrive's institutional and retail channels. In addition, Brian works with domestic and international retail partners to provide them with access to OverDrive's catalogue of over one million titles of eBooks and digital audiobooks. Prior to joining OverDrive, Brian was the SVP of Business Development for MediaBay. At MediaBay, he oversaw publisher relations for the transition of the company from The Audiobook Club to a digital download company.

David Rapkin has been in the audio publishing industry since cassettes were the only delivery medium. He is a double Grammy winner for his work on the Harry Potter audiobook series. David has directed Zeke Emanuel, Tom Brokaw, Rita Moreno, Margaret Atwood, Jim Dale, and Joe Mantegna. He produces and directs for Random House Audio, Scholastic Audio, Penguin Audio, and Hachette Audio, and narrates for Audible.com.

Mary Beth Roche is Vice President and Publisher of Macmillan Audio. She also oversees Macmillan's Quick and Dirty Tips (QDT) podcast and website business, as well as the Macmillan Speaker's Bureau. She began her publishing career in the Random House Publicity Department after graduating from Wellesley College, advancing to the position of Publicity Director for Random House and Times Books in 1991. She moved to Random House Audio as Vice President and Publishing Director of Random House Audible in 1999. Mary Beth was a member of the board of the Publisher's Publicity Association and served as President from 1996-1998. She is currently a member of the Audio Publishers Association Board of Directors and served as President of the APA Board from 2003-2006.

Brad Rose helped launch Dreamscape in 2010 and is currently serving as Vice President. Prior to helping to launch Dreamscape, Brad worked for over 10 years at Paramount Pictures in their Home Entertainment division, working with distributors such as Ingram Entertainment and national retailers including Target Corporation. Before joining Paramount, Brad was a Brand Manager at Baker & Taylor and worked in new product development for Morgan Stanley.

Barbara Rosenblat is one of the most beloved and sought after voice actors in the country. In a distinguished body of work that numbers nearly 500 titles, Barbara has received eight Audie Awards and over 40 Earphone Awards from Audiofile Magazine including "Voice of the Century." She has voiced animated programs, documentaries, video games, and a variety of radio and television commercials. On Broadway, she created the role of Mrs. Medlock in the Tony Award winning musical The Secret Garden. She can be seen in the upcoming Netflix original series Orange is the New Black, airing this summer. As one critic writes, "Barbara is to audiobooks what Meryl Streep is to film."

Eileen Stevens is an audiobook narrator (Audible, HighBridge, Outloud), audiobook director (Random House) and has a M.S. in speech-language pathology from Hunter College. Her voice can also be heard on commercials, promos, English as a Second Language (ESL) programs, and cartoons. She currently is the voice of Iris on Pokemon and Tori on Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal, airing Saturday mornings.

Suzanne Toren is an actor who has appeared on and off Broadway, and in regional theaters. She has narrated close to a thousand audiobooks (she can't believe it either!) in her almost 40-year career, and is the recipient of many awards and nominations, most recently for this year's Audies (in 2 categories). She is also a Guild-certified practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education, which she has been teaching to actors for over 20 years. Magic words for narrator health: diaphragm and sitz bones.

Sarah Twombley is a digital strategist at Blue State Digital, a digital advertising company known for its innovative work with the Obama campaign, Google and The Metropolitan Museum of Art among others. She has led major digital campaigns for corporations like Godiva and nonprofits like The Rockefeller Foundation and the Art Institute of Chicago. Before advertising, Sarah worked as a literary agent at the Joy Harris Literary Agency, Inc. where she founded the young adult sector of the agency, and worked closely with numerous bestselling and award-winning authors, coordinating and assisting with all aspects of the publishing process - from editorial work, to contract negotiations, to the development of international marketing campaigns. She received her MFA in fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

A winner of six Audies, Simon Vance began narrating audiobooks in 1983 when he was a BBC radio newsreader. Since moving to California he has been an actor on stage, TV and film. Recently prize-winning author Hilary Mantel said of Simon's narration of her book Bring Up the Bodies: "(He) is an expert in differentiating the men and women of the Tudor court and capturing their personalities... As if by telepathy, he has preserved the rhythm of the text as I heard it when I wrote it. No author could hope for a more faithful and imaginative audio version."

Meghan Walker is partners with book publicity expert Gretchen Koss at Tandem Literary - a PR and marketing firm catering to authors and publishers. On top of the individual book campaigns the two take on, Meg also currently serves as the year-round personal marketing director for the bestselling authors Nathaniel Philbrick and Mary Kay Andrews. Prior to forming Tandem Literary in 2009, Meg worked for 17 years in various in-house marketing roles including three years as the Director of Marketing at Spiegel & Grau and nine years as the second-in-command in the Putnam Marketing Department at Penguin Group (USA). Meg has crafted the national marketing campaigns for Suze Orman, Eric Clapton, Artie Lange and Matt Taibbi, and has also worked on campaigns over the years for such blockbuster authors as Patricia Cornwell, Tom Clancy, Nora Roberts, Clive Cussler, Catherine Coulter, John Sandford, Sue Grafton and Lance Armstrong.

Karen White has been narrating and directing audiobooks since 1999. Honored to be included in Audiofile's Best Voices 2010 and 2011, she's also an Audie Finalist and has earned multiple Audiofile Earphones Awards for narration and direction. Publishers Weekly says of Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick, "Karen White delivers a stunning reading, her character interpretations are confident and well-rounded, and she forges a strong bond with the audience." Speaking of Audiobooks says, "Karen is one of my auto-buy narrators - if I think a book might interest me, her narration will sway me to give it a try."

Robin Whitten is the founder and editor of Audiofile, the magazine on audiobooks. Coordinating coverage of audiobooks since 1992, Whitten has built an audiobook discovery resource in print and online. Whitten writes about audiobooks for national publications and speaks frequently at library conferences and events about audiobooks. A current board member of the APA, Whitten received a Special Achievement Award from the APA for her contributions to "building awareness of audiobooks and fostering growth of the audiobook industry." Whitten lives in Portland, Maine, where the magazine is based. In her spare time, she gardens, walks, and travels.

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