Super exciting news this year as I have been named along with Brian Hutchinson and Mia Barron for our ensemble work in Jodi Picoult’s, “Sing You Home,” as Best voices and multi-cast AudioBook of 2011!!  Also my work in “Faith” by Jennifer Haigh was recognized as one of Best Fiction Audiobook of 2011!!  Here is to a great year in recording and onward and upward for 2012.

http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/best_of_2011.html

So I have a newfound respect for the Bruins fans and hockey in general after filming the promo for the Bruins vs. Wings game the day after Thanksgiving at Boston’s Garden!  What an impressive arena as well as fan base.  I have never had so much fun on a shoot.  Working with Defiant Productions, who I previously worked on for The Newlywed Game promo, was a blast!  These guys are the nicest people to work with. I play the wife who sneaks out to “shop with girlfriends…”  The commercial will start airing Monday, November 7, on NBC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1A7XNoxtPM

Thursday, September 29, 2011

FAITH by Jennifer Haigh, read by Therese Plummer

This novel examines the effects of accusations of sexual abuse on the families and friends of Catholic priests. Plummer masterfully narrates the emotional first-person narrative.

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I spent the morning at 4Kids working on episodes of this seasons Yu-Gi-Oh!! I am playing a very overbearing stage mother and also a Galaxy Queen.  I had so much fun and can’t wait to play again.  Onward and Upward:-)

I have been working in the studio and have some exciting new titles coming out this Fall.  Hope you Enjoy!

“The Last Nude” by Ellis Avery

“The Family Fang” by Kevin Wilson

as well as some fun Holiday Harliquin’s and a brand new Robyn Carr novel. Stay tuned!

I remember being a kid and summer going on and on and on and days at the public pool and the snack shop with pizza squares and popsicles and looking for bunnies and hedge “chogs” outside the window of mom’s car as she shuttled us all back home for dinner. Eyes bright red, stinging from too much chlorine looking underwater with mermaids eyes at lots of other kids legs and who knows what else. Hair stiff and wet from a day in and out of the pool. Thoughts only a twelve or thirteen year old girl could be having. And the summer went on and on and on. Smells of BBQ and cheeseburger’s and shucking fresh ears of corn and doors open and windows open and curtains blowing and flies being killed by the dozens. I became a great fly killer with my rolled up magazine. Usually in one fell swoop and they would be a carcass. And the little radio on the kitchen counter would be blaring out whatever was on NPR until I changed it to 98.5 krz or q102 and jam out as I made chocolate chip cookies or oatmeal cookies or something to take my mind off of whatever obsession I had at the moment. And then as I got older the endless runs over the dikes and the bridges and looking at the Susquehanna river and keeping beat with my breath. Miles and miles and miles. I literally could not sit still. And the smells of tar bubbling on the streets cause it was so damn hot. Those summers were not as memorable as I became consumed with me and boys and my body and I stopped noticing bunnies and chogs and chlorine mermaid eyes and crispy sun burnt skin and tastes of fresh watermelon after greasy cheeseburgers. Everything became really serious then and food wasn’t around much and boys were and attention was and then parties were and summers blended into fall and winter and spring and the anticipation just stopped for a while for the changing of the seasons, and now as an adult of 34 years old I sit here only having been to the beach twice and working in a studio a lot and re-creating this summer of my youth but the way I need it to be told today. And I sit in my room over looking a beautiful jade and ruby root and bamboo plants to a huge oak tree outside and past that train tracks for the Amtrak. And the window is open and a breeze flutters in and I am off to the dentist in a spell. I forget that as an adult I am also still a little girl that wants those memories and things to look forward to and I want to bring that for myself. And I will. If I want to smell chicken roasting on Sunday I will cook one. If I want windows open and NPR or rock and roll playing while cookies are baking I will do that too. I am the only one not doing these things. I do not have to stay dark and small and busy and grown up and only go to the beach twice. I can make every day a summer vacation day! I can wander through this city and buy an ice cream cone and sit by a fountain or buy watermelon and taste it in my mouth after all these years. Growing up was good. I see that now.

Audiobook Review

AudioFile Earphones Award Winner

FAITH Jennifer Haigh Read by Therese Plummer As members of the Catholic priesthood continue to be accused of sexual abuse, the author examines the effects of these accusations on the families and friends of the priests alleged to have committed such acts. This first-person narrative, from the point of view of Sheila McGann, sister of one such priest, is masterfully narrated by Therese Plummer. Plummer excels at narration that is emotional without being mawkish. While raising the question of whether or not Sheila’s brother is guilty, the novel also raises issues of faith in God and in one another. Plummer’s strong narration lends further weight to Haigh’s story, creating an audio experience listeners will want to immerse themselves in. J.L.K. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine [Published: JUNE 2011]

SING YOU HOME

Jodi Picoult

Read by Therese Plummer, Brian Hutchinson

Music is an apt accompaniment to a story about a music therapist who finds herself falling in love with a woman after her husband leaves her. The songs, written by Picoult and Ellen Wilber, who performs them, are placed at relevant points in the heartbreaking story. Therese Plummer performs the women’s roles with pure expressions of joy, anger, and grief. Picoult also has a talent for intuiting male internal dialogue, which is performed superbly by Brian Hutchinson, as husband Max. Max’s point of view smoothly shifts the story’s perspective with ironic guy talk that hints at both his manly feelings and profound vulnerabilities. Picoult conveys her characters’ transformation with her signature grace and empathy, while shining a harsh spotlight on intolerance. A bittersweet and riveting listening experience. A.W. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine [Published: APRIL 2011]