July 18th

Jorjeana Marie

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Writing for Audio:

Keeping the Reader/Listener in mind in the Booming Audiobook Market

In Person and Zoom

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When you write, if you read your work out loud, you know you catch many errors and you learn more about your story during this revision phase. But did you know there is a way to bring your book even more alive as it moves from your draft to the narrator to the listener? Work with Audie and Earphones winner and producer of audiobooks to discover some unique tips to pull your reader and listener closer.

Bio

Jorjeana Marie is a comedian, the Los Angeles Times bestselling author of Improv for Writers (Penguin Random House/Ten Speed Press) and a staff writer on the Emmy-nominated Tab Time with Tabitha Brown. She is the magical rabbit “Trikini” on Disney’s Mickey Mouse Funhouse and Mickey Mouse and the Roadster Racers (and wrote on both shows).  

You may recognize her voice from Nickelodeon, Disney, PBS or for narrating over 400 audiobooks for authors including Meg Wolitzer, Nina La Cour, Jacqueline Woodson, R. L. Stine, Elizabeth Gilbert, Kate DiCamillo and Gayle Forman. Winner of a prestigious Audie, a SOVAS, and more than a dozen Earphones awards, Jorjeana has been named one of the best YA voices by AudioFile Magazine year after year.

Publishers Weekly calls her “Pitch Perfect”. Paste Magazine named her one of their favorite narrators and Audiofile Magazine calls her characters “Hilarious!” She is the voice of The New Nancy Drew Diaries and AudioFile says “Jorjeana Marie captures the essence of what makes Nancy Drew such a timeless fictional icon”. As an actress, Jorjeana starred in the pilot Listen to Grandpa, Andy Ling with Randall Park and Academy Award nominee Elliott Gould. Jorjeana also plays British teen boy Fischer Frey in the Harry Potter Magic Awakened.

Jorjeana has found success writing in several mediums. Some of her favorite shows to work on in animation include: Tea Town Teddy Bears on Peacock, Dew Drop Diaries at DreamWorks/Netflix, Mickey Mouse Mixed Up Adventures for Disney, and Robot Trains on Netflix. She has written on multiple scripted podcasts and as a playwright had many works produced in New York City for the Neighborhood Playhouse, 24 Hour Plays while also writing and performing three one-woman shows in NY and LA: “Ally, MaryJane & Me”, “NY, I Love” and “JoJo and Friends”, the latter a sold-out solo sketch show with animation, puppets and stand-up.

Jorjeana attended undergrad at New York University’s TISCH School of the Arts - Dramatic Writing Program and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts.