JUDITH WEST
 producer-director & narrator

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 abridgement 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, as well as coaching narrator clients.

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, trainer, and special projects director.

Judith and her husband, writer-educator-artist Christopher Eaton, live with their rescued cats in a vintage Chicago bungalow off Devon Avenue, the most ethnically diverse street in the U.S. Fittingly, they count ethnic cooking, travel, and antiques among their pleasures.

e-mail Judith West
 phone/fax 773.338.8813