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AUDIOBOOK NARRATOR 🎙️

AUDIOBOOK TITLES

AFFILATIONS

AUTHOR ALLY.
STORY SHEPHERD.

Mark Jason Royse is a stage-trained audiobook narrator with 30+ years of professional creative experience. An emerging voice, Mark booked 16 titles within his first 60 days of auditioning–including a Nobel Prize winner.

Born and bred in the Bluegrass, his Kentucky bourbon baritone is warm and clear with a kick.

Affable, approachable, but unafraid to go dark places, Mark delivers nuanced, emotional performances.

Mark is partial to LGBTQ fiction, fantasy/sci-fi, cerebral thrillers, and MM romance.

OUTSIDE THE BOOTH

Mark is an award-winning creative director, copywriter, and graphic designer with advertising agency experience. He’s also a seasoned non-profit exec skilled in philanthropy and community engagement. Plus, as a published poet, essayist, and short story author, Mark understands storytelling from the inside out. A longtime meditator, Mark has practiced with celebrity Buddhist teachers and anonymous alcoholics. 

He’s an author ally, a production pro, and a devoted story shepherd.

Fun career highlights:

  • Interned at Circle Rep Theater, New York, on a Joyce Carol Oates play, The Truth-Teller.
  • Collaborated with 20th Century Fox as a buyer for J. Peterman Company, selling Titanic costumes and props, including a red-carpet premiere appearance.
  • As the University of Kentucky College of Design’s communications director, helped list the Kentucky Bluegrass as a World Monuments Fund endangered landscape.

CREDITS

Theatre, local ad agency, and public broadcast experience:

  • Audiobook Narration: Glagoslav Publications
  • Audiobook Narration: Lantern Publishing & Media
  • Audiobook Narration: Running Wild, LLC
  • Audiobook Narration: Riptide Publishing
  • Audiobook Narration: BHC Press
  • Commercial VO: Sole Dynamics
  • Video Game VO: Dislyte, Brewster Intro
  • Theatre: Circle Rep Theatre, NYC
  • Theatre: Busch Gardens, The Old Country, VA
  • Theatre: Lexington Musical Theatre
  • Theatre: Actor’s Guild of Lexington
  • Public Speaking & Presentations: The J. Peterman Company
  • Public Speaking & Presentations: University of Kentucky College of Design
  • Public Speaking & Presentations: CJ Advertising
  • Public Speaking & Presentations: AVOLKY (non-profit)
  • Host/Emcee: Beaux-Arts Ball, Lexington, KY
  • Podcast Host: Mad Mister Mark’s Podcast of Mystery
  • Spokesperson: RADIOLEX (public radio)
  • Public Radio Host: My Morning Mixtape, RADIOLEX
  • Public Radio Host: Community Voices, RADIOLEX
  • Voice Talent: radio PSAs, radio spots, online spots RADIOLEX
  • Spokesperson: AVOLKY (non-profit)
  • Voice Talent: radio PSAs, TV spots, online spots AVOLKY (non-profit)
  • Voice Talent: CJ Advertising, various clients, spec spots, etc.

EDUCATION/TRAINING

Lifelong performer and public speaker (from 4-H to high school drama & debate to corporate trainer to non-profit spokesperson)

  • BA Theatre, University of Kentucky
  • Audiobook Narration Coaching, Julie Wilson, The Articulate Coach, Ahab Talent
  • Voiceover Coaching, J. Michael Collins, JMC Voiceover
  • Voiceover/Acting Coaching, Lau Laupides, agent, owner Lau Laupides Company
  • ACX Master Class, David H. Lawrence XVII & Dan O’Day
  • Voiceover Coaching, Mike Cosh, MCVO
  • Improv Coaching, Joanne Yarrow, Dir. of Community Engagement & Education, Syracuse Stage in New York; Executive Director of Live Animation Studios; owner, Distinctive Voices LLC
  • Voice Performance/Vocal Production, Russell Henderson, University of Kentucky
  • Voice Performance/Vocal Production, Lynn Estes, Belmont University

STUDIO STUFF

Professional home studio featuring Vocal Booth VO1 with additional customized acoustical treatment. AKG Pro Audio C414 XLII (primary), Sennheiser MKH 416 (secondary) with Focusrite Clarett 2Pre. Macbook Pro + Adobe Audition. SourceConnect available.

I also have easy access to a full-service, Audible-certified,  commercial recording studio.

LOGO & LORE

My logo is a stylized griffin from the Royse family crest.  It’s a reminder that I don’t do anything alone.  Generations of men & women, lovers & fighters, saints & sinners, heroes & thieves got me to where I am today.  Their lives, lusts, and loves stir my blood, drive my desires, and keep the whole grand show going.