Audiobook Talent & Industry Guide

CHRISTIAN BASKOUS

https://chrisbaskous.com/

Nationality/Cultural Identity: American

Agent: Roger Becker • [email protected]

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Awards: AudioFile Best Audiobook, Audie Finalist, AudioFile Earphones

Spoken Languages: Standard American, Standard British (RP)

American Accents: Standard (mid-Atlantic), Midwest, New England, New York, Southern, Texas, West Coast/ California

Other English Accents: Standard (RP), British Regionals, Australian, Cockney, Irish, Scottish, Singaporean, Welsh, Yorkshire

World Accents: Canadian, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Indian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Mexican, Russian, Scandinavian, South African, Yiddish

Genres: Biography, Drama, Literary Fiction, Mystery/Suspense, Nonfiction, Memoir, Autobiography, Autobiographic Fiction

Voice Range: Juvenile, Teen, Middle Age, Senior

PERFORMANCE & TRAINING

Stage/Film/TV: Motion Pictures: (Glory, Brighton Beach Memoirs); TV (Legwork, Swift Justice, Law and Order). Theatre: Broadway (Real Thing, Hay Fever, The Miser, NYSF's Shakespeare on Broadway Project); off-Broadway; Kennedy Center, Circle in the Square, The New York Shakespeare Festival; regional theatres - La Jolla Playhouse, Hartford Stage, ART, Yale Rep, etc. Downtown avantgarde plays by Maria Irene Fornes, Jeff Weiss, Ron Tavel, etc.

Favorite Roles: Has acted in Broadway and Off-Broadway shows and in major regional theatres, in movies and on TV. Christian Baskous writes, directs, and produces original audio "voiceplays" or radioplays. His SAFETY IN THE FIELD, was a 2021 finalist for the Missouri Review's Miller Audio Prize (Humor category) and The National Audio Theatre Festival.

Voice-Over: Decades of professional voiceover and narration experience. 60+ audiobooks. Many national commercials, incl. Pop Tarts, Geico, Martha Stuart, Investtools... etc.

Training: Juilliard Drama graduate, Group 12; PCPA; Actors Studio Lifetime Member.

Expertise: Professional audio production training and experience. Digidesgn-certified ProTools operator. Film production and post-production, Sound Design, ADR and Foley. Dedicated recording studio with iso booth, professional mics, Protools and Source Connect.

Worked With: Harper Audio, Blackstone, BBC Audiobooks America, McMillan, Audible, Penguin Random House Audio and other publishers…

Home Studio • Audiobooks Recorded >100

SAG-AFTRA Member

AUDIOBOOKS & REVIEWS

Audiobooks: BETWEEN THEM (Remembering My Parents); BRIEF ENCOUNTERS WITH CHE GUEVARA (Stories); SOMETHING RICH AND STRANGE (Selected Stories); MAGIC STRINGS OF FRANKIE PESTO; HAM ON RYE; THE WILD GIRL

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