Audiobook Narrator,
Actor

DEMOS

FICTION / COMEDY

First Person

FICTION / THRILLER

Third Person

FICTION/YOUNG ADULT

Dystopian-Clones

FICTION/COMEDY

Middle Grade

NON-FICTION

Business – Leadership

NON-FICTION

Self-Help – Motherhood

FICTION

Cozy Mystery

NON-FICTION

Medical – Gut Microbes

SHORT STORY / CHILDREN

Cajun Accent

LITERARY FICTION

Irish Accent

FICTION

Rom-Com – M/F Dialogue

I AM PUMPED TO NARRATE

Medical & Psychological Thrillers, Women Sleuths, Non-Fiction, Memoirs, Medical, Self-Help

ABOUT

Melissa Kay Benson is an energetic stage actor, CrossFit Masters athlete, and human anatomy enthusiast.

Her youthful voice, acting range, and sunny disposition are well suited to the genres of middle grade, YA and cozy mysteries. She has played a 75-year-old woman and a 12-year-old boy in the same show, alternating between the two: a feat of flexibility.

Her experience in performing human dissections, her fifteen-year career as a medical massage therapist, and being a mom, has developed, in her, an ease with medical terminology, anatomy, physiology, and situations involving blood and guts!

Here’s the plot twist: beneath that bubbly personality, also lies a passion for narrating psychological and medical thrillers.

She uses her experience as a myofascial (connective tissue) therapist to help other audiobook narrators with improving their posture and health in the booth.

She is a firm believer that keeping our bodies strong can sustain the, surprisingly, physical aspect of narration.

What is #BoothHealth?

I use my 15 years of experience as a medical myofascial therapist to educate fellow narrators on posture, breathing, and easy habits to stay healthy in the booth.

STRENGTHS

Accents for Primary Characters

American English
Southern
Irish
General British

Accents for Secondary Characters

Cajun
YAT
French
Neutral Chinese
Australian
Latin American
I am a fast learner of new accents

Skills

Medical
Anatomy

TRAINING

Melissa has participated in multiple forms of thespian training through community theatre, workshops, classes, and intensives, from early childhood, through the present.

She is a graduate of Sean Allen Pratt’s Nonfiction Audiobook & Business Coaching Course.

She was trained in professional voice over and audiobook narration by David H. Lawrence, XVII of Los Angeles, CA., completing courses in voicing fiction, non-fiction, digital and internet, documentaries and E-learning, project management, business and more.

Melissa has attended Johnny Heller’s New England Narrator Retreat (2019, 2021, 2022) and his Business Blow-Out workshop in 2019. She has participated in the Deyan Masterclass in (2022), Audio Publisher’s Association Conference-APAC (2022, 2023), the APA’s Professional Ear (2021), and attended narrator workshops both virtually and in person at every opportunity.