Behind the Mic Creators & Guests

Josephine Reed, AudioFile Magazine Podcast HostJo is a compulsive audiobook listener. She was the program director of the book and theater channel on XM Satellite Radio.

Florence Williams is a journalist and nonfiction author.

Tan France is a fashion designer, television personality, and author.

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is an author and historian. He won the National Book Award for his book Stamped from the Beginning.

David Page is an author.

Robin Miles is an actor, casting director, audiobook narrator, and audiobook director. She has narrated over 300 books. She also has a voice training school, VOXpertise, for aspiring narrators.Miles has appeared in Broadway shows and on TV shows, including "Law & Order" and "Murder by Numbers." She is best known for her audiobook narrations and narration director work.Miles received her B.A. in Theater and her M.F.A. in Drama from the Yale University School of Drama.

Emily Woo Zeller is an actor and voice artist. She is best known for playing Panam Palmer in the videogame Cyberpunk 2077. She has dubbed for film and television in Southeast Asia, performed in the theater, and danced professionally.Zeller received her B.A. in Dance and Performance Studies from the University of California Berkeley.

4X NYT bestselling author, noted speaker and book advisor who thrives at the intersection of culture, business and leadership.

Hailing from the Virginia/DC metro area, Ewan Chung is a veteran actor of film, television, and theatre. He has been working more frequently as a voice-over artist and singer, oftentimes specializing in Asian and Mandarin-speaking roles. It all began with voicing minor characters for the animated “Cowboy Bebop: The Movie” and a recurring role for the “Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex” series. This led to video games, then commercial VO and loop group work providing background voices for various films and TV shows.

Shayna Small is a classically trained actor, musician, and audiobook narrator. She has narrated for The New York Times app, Audm, or on Apple News.

Cameron Esposito is an actor and podcaster known for her show Take My Wife & podcast Queery. She also co-hosts the stand-up comedy podcast Put Your Hands Together.

Edoardo Ballerini is an actor, narrator, writer, and film director. He is best known for his role as Corky Caporale in "The Sopranos" and as the chef in the film "Dinner Rush."Ballerini is also an award-winning book and podcast narrator. He is the co-author of the audio fiction series "The Angel of Rome." He wrote, directed, and starred in the film, "Good Night Valentino," which was released in 2003.Ballerini received his B.A. in English from Wesleyan University.

Simon Vance is a narrator and actor, known for narrating audiobooks. He sometimes narrates audiobooks under the pseudonyms Richard Matthews and Robert Whitfield.Vance started his career at BBC Radio Brighton, and went on to become a BBC Radio 4 presenter and newsreader. He donated his time to narrate books for the Royal National Institute for the Blind. He also performed in plays in London.Vance has received 16 Audie Awards, the American Library Association's Booklist Magazine Voice of Choice in 2008, and 60 AudioFile Magazine Earphones Awards.

Barbara Rosenblat is an actor and narrator, best know for her work narrating audiobooks and for her role in the TV show "Orange Is the New Black." She has also performed voice acting for animated series and videogames.

Georgia Miriam Hardstark is an American television host and podcast personality. She is the current co-host of the podcast My Favorite Murder along with comedian Karen Kilgariff.

LeVar Burton is an actor, director, educator & co-founder of the award-winning Skybrary App, host and Executive Producer of PBS's Reading Rainbow, and lifelong children's literacy advocate.

David McAlister Barry is an author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comic novels.

Jason Rezaian is an Iranian-American journalist who served as Tehran bureau chief for The Washington Post. He was convicted of espionage in a closed-door trial in Iran in 2015.

Podcast guest and enthusiast. Executive Director of The Podcast Academy.