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Kat Jackson has spent more than twenty years helping shape the way the world listens.
She believes an audiobook is its own art form — made through the partnership of author, narrator, director, producer, engineer, and listener — and she’s passionate about helping audiences find extraordinary performances and celebrating the craft behind them.
A producer, director, casting specialist, and audio executive, she has worked on thousands of hours of audiobooks, podcasts, and original productions — collaborating with bestselling authors and award-winning narrators, and with performers including Trevor Noah, Mariah Carey, Elton John, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Hart, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Laurence Fishburne, Wil Wheaton, Zachary Quinto, and Daniel Radcliffe. Her productions include Project Hail Mary, the 2022 Audie Award winner for Audiobook of the Year.
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When she’s not listening, you’ll find her coaching narrators, talking with authors, or introducing someone to the audiobook that changes how they think about storytelling.
Daniel Henning is a New York Times bestselling audiobook narrator with more than 350 titles to his name.
He’s a three-time SOVAS Voice Arts Award winner (and nineteen-time nominee), a three-time Audie Award finalist, and a nine-time Kirkus Earphones winner. His recordings include the instant #1 New York Times bestseller Somewhere Beyond the Sea, the sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. He founded the small press Starshells of Madness, whose first release — the lost 1930 Hollywood satire Queer People — is out now at indie bookstores and on Audible, Libro.fm, and wherever audiobooks are sold.
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As founding Artistic Director of Hollywood’s The Blank Theatre, he helped launch the careers of writers including Stephen Karam, Leigh Bardugo, Austin Winsberg, Lauren Yee, and Max Wolf Friedlich. He earned a Telly Award for Best Writer for the film of his play The Tragedy of JFK (as told by Wm. Shakespeare), and an NAACP Theatre Award for Best Director of a Musical for The Wild Party.
Henning was honored by the California State Legislature as a Pride Honoree for his work in LGBTQ+ equality. He is Resident Historian for The Black Cat in Los Angeles — the site of the first major demonstration for LGBTQ+ rights in the United States. As an actor his work has aired on HBO, CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, MTV, and Comedy Central. He’s a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Circle in the Square Theatre School, and American Conservatory Theatre.