Eunice Wong | actor+narrator

Hi, I’m Eunice [YOO-niss]! 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’m also a Juilliard Drama alum & winner of the Helen Hayes Award for Lead Actress, with 9 AudioFile Earphones Awards, 6 for solo performances. I was honored to be selected as one of 12 winners, out of 251, for the American Library Association’s 2024 RUSA Listen List: Outstanding Audiobook Narration.

I’ve recorded 100+ titles for Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, Blackstone, Harper, Dreamscape, & more, and I’ve performed professionally across the US & on national tv.

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

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.”

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

Onstage, I recently played the title role in Shakespeare’s “Pericles” at Obie-winning Target Margin Theater. >Here’s< a video interview I gave on Shakespeare.

My facility with language, as a published award-winning writer, editor, & lifelong bookworm, combined with my acting experience & conservatory training, make audiobooks my perfect playground.

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

(Paul also says I’m a mensch.)

My other awards include the Audiobook Adrenaline Award for Suspense, the MyTheater Boston Award for Best Actress, a Barrymore nomination for Lead Actress, and the L.A. Press Club Journalism Award, 1st place.

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.

Just ask me.

GENRES: Literary fiction, mystery, literary sci-fi, nonfiction. 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; 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, Yentl, Sleep No More, Past Lives, Black Mirror, Hadestown, Joker, Into the Woods, 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; 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, André De Shields

My hobbies include putting blankets on sleeping dogs in case they’re cold.