WHO IS ANDREA EMMES?
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Best Selling, Award Winning Audiobook Narrator and VO Actor, Andrea Emmes, she/her, was born in Hollywood, Florida, grew up in both Tennessee and Rhode Island and started her career in musical theatre. She’s enjoyed an eclectic career as a singer, dancer, Vegas Headliner, Magician’s Assistant, a Recording Artist and a Video Game Designer.
She’s narrated 360+ audiobooks and won several SOVAS awards, is an Audie Award nominee, recipient of multiple Earphones Awards and named Best Female Narrator for the Independent Audiobook Awards in 2019. After suffering a major setback after being diagnosed with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome in 2006, Andrea was determined to not allow her disorder to define her and she found her way back behind the mic. A total book nerd, Andrea, now enjoys narrating all genres of audiobooks, especially YA, Middle Grade/Kids, Geeky/Comics, LitRPG, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Romance, and NonFiction at her professional home studio in CA. Her wide range of character voices and dynamic/emotionally invested performances has reviewers and listeners alike commenting on how she effortlessly pulls listeners in and has versatility and charisma. |
Fun Facts:
Nationality/Heritage:
Italian, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Jewish, French, Greek, English, German
Andrea has a Bachelor of Science in Game Art and Design; was a game designer for Disney Interactive; and gets her gamer-geek on playing games of all kinds!
Guilty Pleasures: learning about Behavioral Science, Body Language and Micro-expressions & Linguistics, True Crime, UK Reality Shows, Supernatural, The Circle, The Behavioral Panel (onYouTube), baking, designing websites, graphic design, and creating art with collectible pins.
Award-winning Animation Producer of the animated CG short film, "Mila". www.milafilm.com.
Nationality/Heritage:
Italian, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Jewish, French, Greek, English, German
Andrea has a Bachelor of Science in Game Art and Design; was a game designer for Disney Interactive; and gets her gamer-geek on playing games of all kinds!
Guilty Pleasures: learning about Behavioral Science, Body Language and Micro-expressions & Linguistics, True Crime, UK Reality Shows, Supernatural, The Circle, The Behavioral Panel (onYouTube), baking, designing websites, graphic design, and creating art with collectible pins.
Award-winning Animation Producer of the animated CG short film, "Mila". www.milafilm.com.
Vocal Range:
Mezzo Soprano Languages: Fluent: English "Audiobook Fluent" Languages: French, German |
Dialects:
New England, New York, Southern , British (RP, Cockney) French, Russian, Irish |
SAG-AFTRA * PANA* APA * SOVAS * ASIFA