[Missouri-l] {Disarmed} ACCESSIBLE WORLD AND BOOKS AND BEYOND PRESENT, NARRATOR, ERIN JONES, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2012, 8 PM EDT BOOKS AND BEYOND ROOM, ACCESSIBLEWORLD.ORG

[Nancy Lynn]

Newswire:

I am always excited when another narrator appears on the show. On Wednesday, Erin Jones will be with us to discuss her work as a narrator at the American Printing House. In the past year, I've read a good number of the books she has had the opportunity to share with us, and she is truly fabulous. Erin has favorite books as we all do, both old and new. With 800 books to her credit, what does she enjoy doing in her spare time? Does she even want to pick up a book when she gets home? An extraordinary woman, Jones has done theater work and much else you will read about in her autobiographical information below. Narration is just one of many interests for Erin. I hope you will join us with questions, compliments and observations for this one of a kind narrator dedicated to her work. Below is information about her and details which will inform you if needed in how you can attend and be a part of this marvelous Books And Beyond. 

Erin Jones began studying acting at the tender 

age of thirteen at Louisville's Youth Performing 

Arts School. She went on to receive her BFA in 

Theatre at The University of Louisville. Her 

first professional job was as a "hoofer" in a 

touring dance company.(Three shows a day five 

days a week.) She went on to build a resume in 

her hometown. Before the age of twenty-five she 

worked with all the professional companies in 

town; Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Stage One, 

The Kentucky Shakespeare Festival and earned her 

Actor's Equity Card. She also worked with most of 

the second tier companies in the Community; The 

Necessary Theatre, The Boathouse Troupe, 

Artswatch and DIVA TONE, relishing being involved 

in new plays, experimental theatre and street 

theatre. Her own work writing, producing and 

directing has been funded by The National 

Endowment for the Arts, The Southern Arts 

Federation, The Greater Louisville Fund for the 

Arts, The Kentucky Arts Council and The Kentucky Foundation for Women.

She has taught acting and improvisation workshops 

at the YMCA Safe Place, The Youth Performing Arts 

School and The Shawnee Community Center, (a 

favorite project choreographing the poetry of Langston Hughes.)

Favorite roles include: Cecily in Tom Stop pard's 

"Travesties", Woman in Christopher Durang's 

"Laughing Wild", Prudence in Durang's "Beyond 

Therapy", Isabella in "Measure for Measure", 

Trinculo in "The Tempest", Annie Gayle Long in 

Horton Foote's "The Roads to Home" and Miep Gies 

in "The Diary of Anne Frank",(played to a house 

of 600 well-behaved pre-teens and teens two shows a day, five days a week.)

She toured New England, The Mid West, The South 

East and Texas with Stage One: The Louisville 

Children's Theatre playing mostly in the grand old 19th century opera houses.

As an NLS Narrator she has read over 800 titles 

since 2001. Favorites include; Anna Karenina, 

Isabelle Allende's "Island Beneath the Sea", 

"State of Wonder" by Anne Padgett and "The Warmth 

of Other Suns" by Isabelle Wilkerson - and those 

are just this past year. Past Favorite titles 

include; "The Silmarillion" by J.R.R. Tolkien, 

"The Painted Veil" by Somerset Maugham, 

Historical Fiction by Anya Seton,(Katherine, 

Devil Water), "The Hunger Games" trilogy and 

Marsha Norman's play "'night Mother" which 

premiered at Louisville's Humana Festival of New American Plays.

Erin is an Urban Organic Farmer and a bicycle 

commuter for over 10 years. She regularly repairs 

her 106 year old, "homestead in the hood", always 

striving to live simply. She is an animal lover 

having been the caretaker of 14 Appaloosas and 75 

acres for 6 years and doing a TV show about The 

Louisville Zoo where she got to feed, hold, 

touch, groom -and ride- all manner of animal 

life. She is currently the companion of ONE 

medium sized sweet boxer mutt named SWEETIE who 

found her wandering the street.

She is very content and proud to be an NLS 

Narrator at The American Printing House for the Blind.

e-Mail: mailto:bookmaven1%40frontier.com

Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Time: 5:00 PM PDT, , 6:00 PM MDT,

7 PM Cdt

8 PM EDT, , 

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