Eunice Wong | actor+narrator

Hi, I’m Eunice [YOO-niss]!

Audible recently honored me as one of Audible’s Best Women Narrators, and I’m the winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Mystery, as well as a 2024 triple Audie Finalist (Best Fiction Narrator, Nonfiction, Mystery, all solos).

I studied acting at Juilliard,

and I’m the grateful recipient of the Helen Hayes Award for Lead Actress and 11 AudioFile Earphone Awards, 6 for solo performances.

One of my favorite interviews ever is with Library Journal, about my creative process - check it out <here> (it’s short!).

I was also one of 12 winners, out of 251 contendahs, of the American Library Association’s 2024 RUSA Listen List: Outstanding Audiobook Narration.

I directed the 2023 Audie Winner for Non-Fiction, narrated by BD Wong, am a Lecturer in Theater at Princeton University, was listed on AudioFile’s Best of 2023 & 2022, Best of 2023 for Audible & Library Journal,

and won the L.A. Press Club Journalism Award, 1st Place (I’m a published writer and editor, too).

I love telling Asian-American stories AND stories that aren’t ethnically-specific.

I’ve performed professionally across the US & on national tv, and I recently played the title role in Shakespeare’s “Pericles” at Obie Award-winning Target Margin Theater.

AudioFile Magazine calls me an “emotionally absorbing” “gifted storyteller,” with an “impressive vocal range & acting skills… evoking humanity and pathos [in] a rich, memorable performance,”

and “Best of all, it’s always compellingly narrated, making for a performance that’s difficult to pause,” “creating one of the must-listen audiobooks of the year.”

Paul Ruben (2xGrammy legend) has been my director for many PRH books, and he calls me “an exceptionally talented, intuitive actress & storyteller, connect[ing] the listener to every emotional nuance.”

Paul also says I’m a mensch :D

My parents are from Hong Kong and I was born in Toronto, so I’m “audiobook-fluent” in Cantonese, French, & Mandarin, with a smattering of Russian, picked up when I lived in Kyrgyzstan with nomads, and a splash of Lakota (long story). My Canadian accent was poonded oot of me at Juilliard, but it’s still available on request, eh.

Having lived in Manhattan for years as an actor, home is now Princeton NJ with my family, which includes two retired racing greyhounds living their best peanut-buttery lives.

I’ve taught poetry in a men’s super-max prison, swum with stingrays, and was blessed at a Lakota Wiwanke Wachipi on Pine Ridge Reservation. I dislocated my shoulder while skydiving in a wind tunnel. I’ve chanted at 4 am in a New Mexico desert monastery, and spent deep time with a rescued dairy cow named Faye.

And though I’m a hardcore introvert, I can go on about sentient sci-fi androids, whale & octopus intelligence, handstands, the link between body & emotions, how human nature can lead to atrocities, or the transcendence of a string quartet busking in Penn station at rush hour.

FAVORITE GENRES: Literary fiction, mystery, literary sci-fi, nonfiction that tells a story. I usually stay away from XXX and math.

I especially love books that straddle literary + speculative fiction, like Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel, & The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler.

ACCENTS, primary: Standard American + Standard Canadian English

ACCENTS, secondary: Chinese | British RP | French | Slavic | Irish | American Southern | California | New York | others as necessary

LANGUAGES: English (fluent) | Cantonese (conversational) | French (reading + speaking) | Mandarin (basic spoken) | Russian (words & phrases) | Lakota (words & phrases)

A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS: Scroll all the way down…

HOME STUDIO: StudioBricks Double-Walled Sound Booth | Rode NT1 | Mac Mini M2Pro | Mogami Gold cables | Scarlett Solo 3rd gen | Reaper (open roll or p&r)

Hey QC teams: an editor I’ve worked with on several projects describes me as “blessedly word-accurate,” and I always try to live up to that.

Professional engineers proof, edit + master my indie projects.

SAG-AFTRA | Actors’ Equity

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But WAIT, there’s MORE…!

SOME FAVORITE…

… THINGS on PAPER: Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro; Exhalation, Chiang; The Book Thief, Zusak; Written on the Body, Winterson; The Year of Magical Thinking, Didion; Angels in America, Kushner; The Far Side, Larson; The Mountain in the Sea, Nayler; 888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers, Chang; Station Eleven, Mandel; Les Miserables, Hugo; Bewilderment, Powers; Playground, Powers; Women Who Run with the Wolves, Estés; The Last Unicorn, Beagle; Song of the Lark, Cather; Interview with the Vampire, Rice; Interior Chinatown, Yu; I Stand Here Ironing, Olsen; Our Town, Wilder; Notes of a Native Son, Baldwin; Shakespeare; Moby Dick (truly); Proust (cross my heart).

… FILMS, SHOWS, TV: Interstellar, Les Miz, Blade Runner, La Boheme, Arrival, Yentl, Sleep No More, Past Lives, Black Mirror, OG Muppet Movie, Joker, Moonstruck, Crouching Tiger…, Arrival, I Am Not Your Negro, Spirited Away, Wonder Woman (2017), Inside Out, A Star Is Born (Garland & Gaga), The Farewell, Star Trek: TNG, Scenes from a Marriage (2021), Battlestar Galactica (2004-09), Slings & Arrows, In Treatment (2008), Planet Earth, Playing Shakespeare.

… AUDIOBOOKS & their ACTORS: Finding Me, Viola Davis; Beautiful Ruins, Edoardo Ballerini; Secrets Between Us, Sneha Mathan; Spinning Silver, Lisa Flanagan; Tom Lake, Meryl Streep; James, Dominic Hoffman; 4000 Weeks, Oliver Burkeman; Code Gray, Aden Hakimi; A Bright Ray of Darkness, Ethan Hawke; One Last Stop, Natalie Naudus; All the Sinners Bleed, Adam Lazarre-White; East of Eden, Richard Poe; Fan Fiction, Brent Spiner; The Husband’s Secret, Caroline Lee; Project Hail Mary, Ray Porter.

… ACTORS on stage & screen: Viola Davis, Mark Rylance, Adam Driver, Patrick Stewart, Jodie Foster

A distinctions list if you’re interested; otherwise, that’s all, folks!

• 2024 Audible’s BEST WOMEN NARRATORS

• 2024 AUDIE AWARD WINNER - MYSTERY: “Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers,” PRH, solo

• 2024 AUDIE AWARD FINALIST - BEST FICTION NARRATOR: “Land of Milk and Honey,” PRH, solo

• 2024 AUDIE AWARD FINALIST - NONFICTION: “Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies,” Simon & Schuster, solo

• 2024 RUSA LISTEN LIST (American Library Association) - OUTSTANDING AUDIOBOOK NARRATION: “Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers,” PRH, solo

• 2023 AUDIE AWARD FINALIST - SHORT STORIES: “Generation Wonder,” Blackstone, multicast, YA

• 2024 AUDIOFILE EARPHONES AWARD: “Memory Piece,” PRH, solo, literary fiction

• 2023 EARPHONES AWARD: “Land of Milk and Honey,” PRH, solo, literary fiction

• 2024 EARPHONES AWARD: “Where the Water Takes Us,” Dreamscape, solo, children’s literature

• 2022 EARPHONES AWARD: “The Verifiers,” PRH, solo, mystery

• 2022 EARPHONES AWARD: “Hunger,” Highbridge, solo, literary fiction

• 2023 EARPHONES AWARD: “Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers,” PRH, solo, mystery

• 2024 EARPHONES AWARD: “Best Food & Travel Writing 2024,” Harper, multicast, contemporary culture

• 2024 EARPHONES AWARD: “When the Sea Came Alive,” Simon & Schuster, multicast, military history

• 2022 EARPHONES AWARD: “Birds of Prey,” Audible, multicast, thriller

• 2023 EARPHONES AWARD: “I’m Not Done with You Yet,” PRH, multicast, thriller

• 2022 EARPHONES AWARD: “Thank You, Mr. Nixon,” PRH, multicast, literary fiction

• 2021 AUDIOBOOK ADRENALINE AWARD: “Rubicon,” PRH, solo, sci-fi thriller

• AUDIBLE BEST OF 2023: “Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers,” PRH, solo, mystery

• AUDIOFILE BEST OF 2022: “Birds of Prey,” Audible, multicast, thriller

• AUDIBLE BEST OF 2023: “Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers,” PRH, solo, mystery

• LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST OF 2023: “Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers,” PRH, solo, mystery

• HELEN HAYES AWARD WINNER: LEAD ACTRESS - “The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow,” Studio Theatre, DC

• MY BOSTON THEATRE AWARD WINNER: BEST ACTRESS - “Smart People,” Huntington Theatre, Boston

• BARRYMORE AWARD NOMINATION: BEST ACTRESS - “An Infinite Ache,” Walnut St Theatre, Philadelphia

• IRNE AWARD NOMINATION: BEST ENSEMBLE - “Smart People,” Huntington Theatre, Boston

My hobbies include putting blankets on sleeping dogs.