Join Chuck and Stacey and their phenomenal guest, audiobook narrator and

actress, Kathe Mazur, also loved for her brilliant work in movies like

American Sniper and TV shows like TNT’s Major Crimes and The Closer.

Kathe recalls some childhood experiences that sparked her desire to be

an actor that included her love of reading aloud.

She tells the

story of how she found her way from the stage to television to audiobook

narrating for Penguin Random House, formerly Books on Tape, by way of

doing volunteer work with narrator Karen White.

She explains

what she likes about working in both narration and on-camera worlds and

shares the questions she always asks herself about her performances.

Kathe talks about how narrating books is a great life lesson because it

requires you make to strong choices and to keep moving forward.

Kathe

offers some wisdom for narrators from owning your point of view to

making sure every sentence is interpreted in a way that is personal to

you. She recounts the experience she had narrating the Jonestown

survivor’s memoir, SEDUCTIVE POISON by Deborah Layton who wanted to be

with her in the studio during the recording. She tells what prompts her

to pass on a book in order to remain authentic, believing that “Saying

no as a strategy is different than saying no as a conviction."

With

regard to narration demos, she feels that you should lead with your

strengths and put things on it that you would most likely be hired to

read. Though she feels her wheelhouse is emotional, evocative literary

fiction, Kathe also love non-fiction as well. She gives another amazing

tip about this genre for narrators encouraging them to fall in love with

the conversation and play to the listener who is deeply interested in

the topic, don’t try to win over the one who is not.

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