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Accents & Dialects
I’ve coached acting, voice & speech and accents & dialects for more than 25 years, including nearly eight years at Edge Studio in NYC. I’ve performed or coached the following, among others:
| St. American Southern New England New York Chicago Philadelphia |
British (var.) Irish Scottish Hispanic German Australian |
Russian E. European Bosnian Israeli Indian South African |
Accent Samples
British
Danish
Eastern European
Mexican American
South African
Italian
Downeast New England
Home Studio
Booth: Studiobricks One
Mic: Neumann TLM102
Interface: RME Babyface
Computer: Mac Mini M2
DAW: Pro Tools
(And when I’m not in the booth, I work from a gorgeous 19th century roll-top desk that belonged to my great-grandfather.)
Raw Sample
Publishers & Clients
Penguin Random House
Recorded Books
Highbridge
Blackstone
Tantor
Dreamscape
OrangeSky
Brilliance
Audible Studios
Awards
One Voice Awards
2023 Win—Best Performance, Non-Fiction
Independent Audiobook Awards
2021 Win—Best Horror
2021 Nom—Best Female Narrator
2021 Nom—Best Non-Fiction
Voice Arts Awards (SOVAS)
2020 Win—Best Anthology (ens.)
Audioverse Awards
2018 Nom—Female Performance
Award Nods & Reviews
⭑ “Linda Jones narrates this heartbreaking and profoundly informative audiobook with polished intimacy and elegance… Beautifully written with easily accessible language and narrated with a level of delicacy, this character-driven title is a must-have for all nonfiction collections.”
~ Library Journal starred review for The Day I Die by Anita Hannig (also included on their ‘Best Audiobooks of the Season’)
“I also listened to the audiobook by narrator Linda Jones, which was excellent. She gave an award-winning performance, and I highly recommend it.”
~ Judith Collins for And There He Kept Her by Joshua Moehling
“Her warm, welcoming voice draws listeners into the discussions of ghost story tropes.”
~ Audiofile Magazine for A Haunted History of Invisible Women by Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes
Audio Drama
I love this one. Narrative Podcast/Audio Drama. A quirky, darkly comic, Southwestern-flavored paranormal anthology called Uncanny County. In this episode, Host in the Machine, I was Connie Ambrose, “a local news giant and legend around these parts,” who really “threw herself into her work.” Nominated for an Audioverse Award.
About
Linda Jones is an award-winning audiobook narrator recording from her home studio in the wilds of Brooklyn, NYC. She is also an award-winning actor, an accomplished coach and ‘Voiceographer,’ with a background in theatre—from Shakespeare and restoration comedy to a host of premieres (NYC, West Coast, US & World). She loves nothing more than to dig into new work by exceptional writers. Still and always a voracious reader, she has narrated over 100 titles for publishers including Penguin Random House, Recorded Books, Audible Studios, Blackstone, Dreamscape, Brilliance and Tantor, as well as a variety of independent authors and publishers. She has a BFA in Acting from Ithaca College.
She and her husband, noted horror writer John C. Foster, and their rescue dog Coraline—a Dutch Shepherd/Pitbull mix, live in an apartment filled-to-bursting, floor-to-ceiling, corner-to-absolute-corner with books.
More? Really? Well okay—click here for THE WICKED LONG BIO™
Linda Jones is an NYC actor with a “cracked wit” and a passion for words and language. She narrates books, both fiction and non, and has also worked in new plays, old plays, film, tv and voice over. With a decade of narration, and nearly two in new plays and development—including dozens of premieres (NYC, West Coast, US & World)—she loves nothing more than to dig into new work by exceptional writers. She spent several years as a lead artist with Crowded Fire, an award-winning, nationally recognized San Francisco theatre company, where she was happily named by one reviewer as, “…an indispensable actor of exceptional power, nuance and range.” (Brad Rosenstein, SF Bay Guardian).
Award-winning theatre work includes Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing and Charles Mee’s Trojan Women: A Love Story. And generous critics have called her “nuanced,” (EDGE NYC), “deep” (NY Cool), “fierce” (OnOffOff), “sharp and hilarious” (New Theatre Corps), “ever-versatile” (Backstage West), “excellent” (SF Bay Guardian), “magical” (Contra Costa Times), “inspired, touching and comic” (SF Chronicle), “mesmerizing” (Sacramento News & Review), “completely focused and faultless… hilarious” (Sacramento Press-Tribune), “[an actor with] a quality of inner light – rare, radiant and indefinable” (Ithaca Journal).
Born and bred in Concord, Massachusetts (she learned to swim in Walden Pond!), her escapades have taken her across the country, with years spent in upstate NY (she is honored to hold a BFA in Acting from Ithaca College), Chicago and San Francisco. It’s been twenty years since she hopped in her little convertible, waved good-bye to California, and drove cross-country, Johnny Cash’s ‘Ring of Fire’ blaring from the speakers as she crossed the Nevada desert. And, though she looks back fondly – she’s glad to be a New Yorker.
She is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity. In addition to performing, she also coaches acting, voice, speech, dialects and voice over for actors in NYC. (More on that, here.)
Other details? She prefers her whisky neat and her coffee black. She loves dive bars and diners, thunderstorms and snow days. And road trips. And though she tried being a blonde for a few years, she discovered she actually has more fun as a brunette. She has been known to run marathons – three, and almost four (thanks a lot, Hurricane Sandy) – and she’s looking forward to running that real and true fourth marathon very soon. She and her husband, noted horror writer John C. Foster, and their rescue dog Coraline—a Dutch Shepherd/Pitbull mix, live in an apartment filled-to-bursting, floor-to-ceiling, corner-to-absolute-corner with books.
Hydration
So many beverages in the making of an audiobook.
11,307
Coffee
23,514
H2O
5,557
Tea
31,099,600
Bubbles
(Disclaimer: there may have been additional beverages consumed since the original count… )
Accents & Dialects
I’ve coached acting, voice & speech and accents & dialects for more than 25 years, including nearly eight years at Edge Studio in NYC. I’ve performed or coached the following, among others:
| St. American Southern New England New York Chicago Philadelphia British (var.) Irish Scottish |
Hispanic German Australian Russian E. European Bosnian Israeli Indian South African |
Accent Samples
British
Danish
Eastern European
Mexican American
South African
Italian
Downeast New England
Home Studio
Booth: Studiobricks One
Mic: Neumann TLM102
Interface: RME Babyface
Computer: Mac Mini M2
DAW: Pro Tools
(And when I’m not in the booth, I work from a gorgeous 19th century roll-top desk that belonged to my great-grandfather.)
Raw Sample
Publishers & Clients
Penguin Random House
Recorded Books
Highbridge
Blackstone
Tantor
Dreamscape
OrangeSky
Brilliance
Audible Studios
Awards
One Voice Awards
2023 Win—Best Performance, Non-Fiction
Independent Audiobook Awards
2021 Win—Best Horror
2021 Nom—Best Female Narrator
2021 Nom—Best Non-Fiction
Voice Arts Awards (SOVAS)
2020 Win—Best Anthology (ens.)
Audioverse Awards
2018 Nom—Female Performance
Award Nods & Reviews
⭑ “Linda Jones narrates this heartbreaking and profoundly informative audiobook with polished intimacy and elegance… Beautifully written with easily accessible language and narrated with a level of delicacy, this character-driven title is a must-have for all nonfiction collections.”
~ Library Journal starred review for The Day I Die by Anita Hannig (also included on their ‘Best Audiobooks of the Season’)
“I also listened to the audiobook by narrator Linda Jones, which was excellent. She gave an award-winning performance, and I highly recommend it.”
~ Judith Collins for And There He Kept Her by Joshua Moehling
“Her warm, welcoming voice draws listeners into the discussions of ghost story tropes.”
~ Audiofile Magazine for A Haunted History of Invisible Women by Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes
Audio Drama
I love this one. Narrative Podcast/Audio Drama. A quirky, darkly comic, Southwestern-flavored paranormal anthology called Uncanny County. In this episode, Host in the Machine, I was Connie Ambrose, “a local news giant and legend around these parts,” who really “threw herself into her work.” Nominated for an Audioverse Award.
About
Linda Jones is an award-winning audiobook narrator recording from her home studio in the wilds of Brooklyn, NYC. She is also an award-winning actor, an accomplished coach and ‘Voiceographer,’ with a background in theatre—from Shakespeare and restoration comedy to a host of premieres (NYC, West Coast, US & World). She loves nothing more than to dig into new work by exceptional writers. Still and always a voracious reader, she has narrated over 100 titles for publishers including Penguin Random House, Recorded Books, Audible Studios, Blackstone, Dreamscape, Brilliance and Tantor, as well as a variety of independent authors and publishers. She has a BFA in Acting from Ithaca College.
She and her husband, noted horror writer John C. Foster, and their rescue dog Coraline—a Dutch Shepherd/Pitbull mix, live in an apartment filled-to-bursting, floor-to-ceiling, corner-to-absolute-corner with books.
More? Really? Well okay—click here for THE WICKED LONG BIO™
Linda Jones is an NYC actor with a “cracked wit” and a passion for words and language. She narrates books, both fiction and non, and has also worked in new plays, old plays, film, tv and voice over. With a decade of narration, and nearly two in new plays and development—including dozens of premieres (NYC, West Coast, US & World)—she loves nothing more than to dig into new work by exceptional writers. She spent several years as a lead artist with Crowded Fire, an award-winning, nationally recognized San Francisco theatre company, where she was happily named by one reviewer as, “…an indispensable actor of exceptional power, nuance and range.” (Brad Rosenstein, SF Bay Guardian).
Award-winning theatre work includes Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing and Charles Mee’s Trojan Women: A Love Story. And generous critics have called her “nuanced,” (EDGE NYC), “deep” (NY Cool), “fierce” (OnOffOff), “sharp and hilarious” (New Theatre Corps), “ever-versatile” (Backstage West), “excellent” (SF Bay Guardian), “magical” (Contra Costa Times), “inspired, touching and comic” (SF Chronicle), “mesmerizing” (Sacramento News & Review), “completely focused and faultless… hilarious” (Sacramento Press-Tribune), “[an actor with] a quality of inner light – rare, radiant and indefinable” (Ithaca Journal).
Born and bred in Concord, Massachusetts (she learned to swim in Walden Pond!), her escapades have taken her across the country, with years spent in upstate NY (she is honored to hold a BFA in Acting from Ithaca College), Chicago and San Francisco. It’s been twenty years since she hopped in her little convertible, waved good-bye to California, and drove cross-country, Johnny Cash’s ‘Ring of Fire’ blaring from the speakers as she crossed the Nevada desert. And, though she looks back fondly – she’s glad to be a New Yorker.
She is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity. In addition to performing, she also coaches acting, voice, speech, dialects and voice over for actors in NYC. (More on that, here.)
Other details? She prefers her whisky neat and her coffee black. She loves dive bars and diners, thunderstorms and snow days. And road trips. And though she tried being a blonde for a few years, she discovered she actually has more fun as a brunette. She has been known to run marathons – three, and almost four (thanks a lot, Hurricane Sandy) – and she’s looking forward to running that real and true fourth marathon very soon. She and her husband, noted horror writer John C. Foster, and their rescue dog Coraline—a Dutch Shepherd/Pitbull mix, live in an apartment filled-to-bursting, floor-to-ceiling, corner-to-absolute-corner with books.
Hydration
So many beverages in the making of an audiobook.
11,307
Coffee
23,514
H2O
5,557
Tea
31,099,600
Bubbles