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Joniece Abbott-Pratt
American actor and audiobook narrator From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Joniece Abbott-Pratt is an American actress and audiobook narrator, whose narrations have won her 14 Earphones Awards from AudioFile. Along with co-narrators, she also won the 2022 Audie Award for Short Stories or Collections for Blackout.[1][2]
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Abbott-Pratt was raised in Philadelphia.[3] She earned a bachelor's degree at Clark Atlanta University,[4] and a Master of Fine Arts degree in acting from the University of Iowa.[5][6] While at Iowa she appeared in a 2004 hip-hop adaptation of the Greek tragedy Seven Against Thebes,[7] and in a 2005 production of Suzan-Lori Parks' In the Blood, directed by Tisch Jones.[8]
Abbott-Pratt has performed in numerous regional theater productions,[9][10] as well as on television shows.[5] In 2002, she was a teen actress in Kia Corthron's Breath, Boom in Atlanta.[11] In 2009, she co-starred in Tracey Scott Wilson's The Good Negro in Hartford and New York.[12] In 2013 she co-starred in a production of Lydia R. Diamond's Stick Fly in Philadelphia.[13] In 2014 she appeared in Marcus Gardley's The House that Will Not Stand in New Haven.[14] She has appeared in several plays by August Wilson, including Gem of the Ocean with Novella Nelson and Stephen Tyrone Williams in Hartford in 2011,[15] and Seven Guitars in Louisville in 2015.[16] Also in 2015, she co-starred with Keith Randolph Smith in Dominique Morisseau's Sunset Baby,[17] and with Royce Johnson in Katori Hall's The Mountaintop.[18] In 2019 she starred in Too Heavy for Your Pocket, a drama about the Freedom Riders by Jireh Breon Holder, at the George Street Playhouse in New Jersey.[19]
Abbott-Pratt is an adjunct instructor in drama at New York University.[20]
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Abbott-Pratt was named "Best Emerging Actress" in 2003, by the Atlanta Constitution.[21] In 2020, AudioFile included Abbott-Pratt's narration of Jordan Ifueko's Raybearer on their list of the best young adult audiobooks of the year,[22] and in 2021, they included her narration of Ifueko's Redemptor on their list of the best young adult audiobooks of the year.[23]
In 2022, AudioFile and Literary Hub named Abbott-Pratt's narration of Nightcrawling among the best fiction audiobooks of the year.[24][25]
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