Elisabeth Lagelée

What was the first audiobook you performed?

With Summers Songs by Janice Cole Hopkins.

What title or series are you best known for?

Broken French by Tasha Boyd.

If a listener wanted to get to know your work, which of your audiobooks would you point them to?

Henry Tudor Must Die by Jillian Laine
The Misadventures of an Amateur Naturalist by Ceinwen Langley
The Deer and the Dragon by Piper C.J. (narrated under my pseudo Luna Rey)
The Invention of the Restaurant by Rebecca L. Spang and Adam Gopnik
The Geographer’s Map to Romance by India Holton (French edition)

Where else have we heard your voice?

IOC, Milan Winter Olympics — English intro videos
IOC, Paris Summer Olympics — French announcements

What do you always have in the booth?

Baguette plushie and essential oils.

How did you come to performing audiobooks?

Comic books and improv! I used to read Tintin, Asterix and Spirou to my siblings and loved to find unique voices for each character. When I joined the Leela improv Company in San Francisco, my mentor suggested I try audiobooks… and the rest is history.

Anything else you’d like a listener to know?

I was born and raised in Paris — right by Notre Dame, studied in a magical forest in Japan and a castle in Germany and now live above the San Francisco fog :)