Voice Actors Mix With Audiobook Pubs At New York City Pub – An APA Event

Three cheers: Voice actors Diane Havens and John Pruden mix with Dan Zitt (center), Director of Master Recording and Producer at Random House Audio.

Voice Actors Mix With Audiobook Pubs

At New York City Pub – An APA Event

Oct. 29, 2009

By John Florian

VoiceOverXtra

Where can voice actors mix, mingle and informally chat with dozens of audiobook publishers?

Try a pub event. We mean, a networking Mixer for members of the Audio Publishers Association (APA) such as the Oct. 27 get-together at the Wheeltapper Pub in New York City.

The APA sponsors these informal networking events so that “members can get together in a more relaxed setting than is offered at other APA events,” says the organization.

The annual Audies Awards – the “Oscars” of the audiobook industry - and Gala, and an annual conference are among other APA events.

While outnumbered 4-to-1 (which was actually a fine networking ratio) at the recent New York mixer, voice actors traded smiles and tales with the publishers, an agent or two - and amongst themselves, of course.

Voice talent attendees included Alan Sklar (pictured with Robin Whitten, editor/publisher of AudioFile magazine), Barbara Rosenblat, John Pruden, James Langton, Katherine Kellgren, Johnny Heller, Diane Havens, John Florian, Joyce Feurring, Robert Fass, Gerard Doyle, and Sergei Burbank.

The list of attending audiobook publishers is a “Who’s Who” of this world.

Also smiling with voice talent: Amanda Mackler, agent with Atlas Talent Agency in New York.

For information about the APA, the organization’s web site is www.audiopub.org. Or, write info@audiopub.org.