Dawn Harvey

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Dawn, an actress and singer, has been performing since childhood. She was always the first one with her hand up in grade school to read out loud to the class so becoming an audiobook narrator was a natural progression for her.

Dawn studied acting in her undergrad and worked part time in the world of stage and film for several years before embarking on a career in voice acting. Her initial course was an introduction to voice acting class taken at the WCS studios over 10 years ago. Since then, Dawn has studied with a multitude of coaches all over North America.

Dawn recorded her first audiobook in 2011 and she is now approaching 50 books. Dawn’s audiobook clients include Audible Studios, Bee Audio, Blackstone Audio, Crossroads Press, Deyan Audio, Harper Collins Publishers Ltd., Litfire Publishing, Pearson, Pixl Press, Shadow Mountain, Spoken Realms, and Turner Publishing.

Dawn’s proudest audiobook moments to date are:

1. After entering an international competition, being awarded the job of narrating Helen Gurley’s Brown’s “Sex and the Single Girl” on the book’s 50th anniversary; and

2. Being invited to contribute stories to a compilation composed of a multitude of award winning narrators for the 2014 “June is Audiobook Month” campaign.

3. Being nominated for a SOVOA award for her narration of “The Wife” by Meg Wolitzer.

4. Being awarded an Earphone Award for her joint narration of “A Manual For Cleaning Women” by Lucia Berlin.

Dawn is also a stage and screen actress and holds bachelors and masters degrees in law.

You can hear demos of Dawn’s work on her website.

Graeme Armstrong – Dawn H

Dawn H has a knack for quickly identifying what you need to improve and keeps pushing you to be better. She won’t let you give anything short of your best, or anything short of what the text demands.

Marty Lawrence – AB-Dawn H

Dawn H is obviously an intelligent woman who loves the art of audio book narration and this information-rich workshop I felt gave me all the tools necessary to get involved in the industry myself. The class was entertaining, engaging and she made it fun!

Christina Smith (Rowsell) – Dawn H

Dawn H is a wealth of knowledge! She really knows this industry inside and out.

Graeme Armstrong – AB-Dawn H

Of all of the workshops I’ve taken so far, this felt the most like an acting workshop. Dawn H’s feedback was so astute, and though I sometimes found it hard to achieve, I felt like it gave me a clear direction of what I need to work on to become a better voice actor.

Rosemary Trace – AB-Dawn

Dawn H’s experience and her sharing of it was the most valuable. The way she showed us how she researches the books was phenomenal in the sheer detail. I felt I came out of the class 100 times more prepared to approach audiobooks as a voice over avenue.