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Judith
West has collaborated on audiobooks ranging from
stylish mystery to parenting, high-tech sci-fi
to popular biography and history. Since 1999,
she has produced, directed, narrated, abridged,
and written for established audiobook
publishers, as well as small publishers who want
to market audiobook versions of their titles.
Recent projects
include
producing Dr. Michael J. Bradley’s multiple
award-winning Yes, Your Teen Is Crazy!
(Audio of the Month for Sept. ’06, Audio
Book News Service), narrating Joy Fielding’s
popular thrillers Heartstopper and Mad
River Road for Brilliance Audio, and
scripting Listen & Live’s Audie-nominated
abridgment of Hitler’s
Scientists.
An active Audio Publishers Association member,
Judith has served on APA Conference panels
and
developed APAC seminars subjects including
“Promoting the Listening-Reading Link to
Families, Schools, and Libraries” and “Special
Sales and Non-Traditional Markets for
Audiobooks.” She’s also written for Audiofile
magazine, the major audiobook industry and
listener publication. In her custom-built
project studio, Judith creates audiobooks for
publisher clients, as well as coaching new and
experienced voice actors in the art, craft, and
business of narration. 
Judith
holds what she affectionately refers to as “two
degrees in Reading Aloud” from the University of
Texas (B.A. & M.A. in Speech and Literary
Performance/Oral Interpretation). She has worked
with Chicago theatres in many capacities. As an
actress, she created the role of Aunt Dahlia in
City Lit’s Bertie and Jeeves adaptations,
performed in Craig Figtree’s Noël Coward
cabaret, and originated several roles in
Christopher Cartmill’s acclaimed “Light” play
series. She has also coached dialects and, as
adaptor and director, staged numerous
productions of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and
poetry. Judith’s active professional life has
also included university teaching and extensive
work with Encyclopædia Britannica as researcher,
editor, writer, trainer, and special projects
director. And she works to advance all areas of
the publishing profession through her
involvement with Chicago Women in Publishing
(VP, Strategic Planning & Development,
2005-08 and 2009-10).
Judith lives
with her rescued cats in a vintage Chicago
bungalow off Devon Avenue, the most ethnically
diverse street in the U.S. Fittingly, she counts
ethnic cooking, travel, and antiques among her
pleasures.
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