Synopsis
Join award winning narrator Gabra Zackman for a masterclass in navigating audiobook genres. This session will begin with a guided meditation to help bring participants into connection with their inner storyteller. Next, Gabra will work with each actor on their selection of text to demonstrate the tools and techniques needed to successfully narrate text from the steamiest romance to the driest work of non-fiction (and everything in between.) The session will conclude with ample time for questions.
NOTE: This is an intermediate to advanced class. Participants are required to have completed narration on 5 or more audiobooks. Participants must select 2 pages of text from a book in a specific genre (ie romance, sci-fi, thriller ect) to work on during class.
Requirements
This is an intermediate to advanced class. Participants must have completed narration on 5 or more audiobooks. Participants must bring to class 2 pages of text from a book with an identifiable genre (ie romance, sci-fi, thriller, ect).
Instructor Bio
Gabra Zackman is a New York City based actress, audiobook narrator and writer. She has performed off Broadway in regional theaters, several Shakespeare festivals and on TV as well as a handful of indie film roles. She performed for 9 seasons with the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Garrison, NY and performed downtown in Kate Hamill’s Sense and Sensibility for Bedlam. She recently worked on a production of Mêlisa Annis’s The Inheritance of a Long-Term Fault with Clutch Productions.
Gabra has recorded over 500 books to date in every major New York production house. She is the winner of multiple Audie awards (and multiple nominations), multiple Earphones awards, and an Odyssey award. Gabra’s recording of Michelle McNamara’s I’ll Be Gone in the Dark was on Audible’s Top Ten Audiobooks list for several weeks in a row, and number 1 on the New York Times Best Selling Audiobooks list multiple times. Her recent recording of Lucky Loser by Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig was also on the New York Times Best Selling Audiobooks list. She was cited on Slate’s Best Audiobooks as a “quintessential pro.”
Gabra calls herself a “multidisciplinary storyteller”. She is the published author of the Bod Squad Series (Simon and Schuster’s Pocket Books 2016), writer and co-producer of the Nice and Naughty and Love at the End of the World Series (Love Bytes Originals 2021, ongoing) and directed and co-produced the No Fear Shakespeare Series for Hachette. Gabra got her MFA at the Academy for Classical Acting at the Shakespeare Theater in DC and considers Shakespeare to be one of the great touchstones of her life. She is currently owned by two irascible cats, who together form her picture of Dorian Grey.
