
John has narrated, edited and produced audiobooks for publishers including: Redwood Audiobooks, Brash Books, University Press Audiobooks, IAMBIC, Outlaws Publishing, ACX and Healing Habits Publishing. He is a member of The Online Stage and Voices of Today and has been featured in many productions, from classics, like Sophocles and Shakespeare, to contemporary works by authors such as Wade Bradford and Mike Murphy. In later years, John has also recorded many books for LibriVox (over 425 sections and counting). John Burlinson has been narrating audiobooks since 1984. His earliest projects were in association with the Texas State Library’s Talking Books Program, which provides free library services for Texans with blindness or visual, physical, or reading disabilities. Over time, John developed a specialty in reading books on the American West: its history, legends and lore. He has also appeared in a number of live radio shows on stage (The 39 Steps, Vintage Hitchcock, Frankenstein), where he has focused on designing and performing live sound effects using period materials and techniques.

Since 2020, Ted has served as a judge for the Atlanta Fringe Festival’s audio showcase, helping select the festival’s Critics’ Choice Awards. His own audio play, Take It or Weave It (co-written with Meredith Powell Carroll), won an Audio Verse Award for Best Writing and was presented at a live listening session at the national HEAR Now Audio Fiction and Arts Festival in Kansas City in 2018.

Ted Wenskus is a writer and theatre/voice actor who has worked on 60+ audio productions, including staged performances, audio projects for the National Park Service, and titles for Audible. How do multi-cast productions work? Why do they work? And what's it like to participate in them? Join us to hear the answers to these questions and more, as we talk with Ted Wenskus, John Burlinson, Susan Iannucci and Elizabeth Klett.

In Episode 5, we talk with five experienced audiobook narrator/producers who have experience in the world of full cast audiobook productions.
