[Missouri-l] Accessible World And Books And Beyond Present Narrator, Erin Jones, Wednesday, March 14, 2012

[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: bookmaven1 at frontier.com

Date: Wednesday, March 14,  2012
Time: 5:00 PM PDT,          ,   6:00 PM MDT, 7 PM Cdt 8 PM EDT, , and
elsewhere in the world Thursday,   12:00 GMT.
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