Carol Monda

What was the first audiobook you performed?

Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin

What title or series are you best known for?

Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran

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

Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand
Claire Dewitt and the Bohemian Highway by Sara Gran
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
I Ran Into Some Trouble by Peggy Caserta
We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix

Where else have we heard your voice?

Turner Classic Movies Film Festival, Tribute Narrator
WETA TV, Guggenheim, Narrator
WETA TV, NY Historical, Narrator
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Promo
TCM Summer Under the Stars, Promos

What do you always have in the booth?

I always have an amber stone given to me by a former student-now friend. I use coasters from the APA that say I ❤️ Audiobooks I always, always have water in the booth.

How did you come to performing audiobooks?

I went from acting on stage, TV and film to doing Voice Overs. In between theatre productions, Grover Gardner invited me to proof an audiobook of his, which led me to engineering audiobooks on the other side of the glass for Books On Tape! I then became an audiobook narrator for them. The rest…

Anything else you’d like a listener to know?

If this is not true that the soul of man be immortal, then I willingly delude myself.