Jennifer Mendenhall

Jennifer Mendenhall (born February 7, 1960), commonly known by the alias Kate Reading, is an American actress and audiobook narrator. She has won 6 Audie Awards and 46 Earphone Awards.

Personal life

Mendenhall was born on February 7, 1960, in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents moved to England when she was a baby.^[1] In 1978, she returned to the United States to attend the University of Virginia.^[1] She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in French and Drama in 1983.^[2]

Mendenhall married Michael Kramer on October 24, 1992.^{[citation needed]} They currently live in the Washington, D.C., area with their two children.^[3]

Awards and honors

Awards

Year	Title	Award	Result	Ref.
1999	Summer Sisters (1998) by Judy Blume	Audie Award for Fiction	Finalist	[4]
2004	Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell	Audie Award for Best Female Narrator	Finalist	[5]
2006	Fairy Tales (1835) by Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Tina Nunnally	Audie Award for Short Stories or Collections	Finalist	[6]
2007	The Painted Veil (1925) by W. Somerset Maugham	Audie Award for Literary Fiction or Classics	Finalist	[7]
2010	Bellwether (1996) by Connie Willis	Audie Award for Science Fiction	Winner	[8]
2010	The Gathering Storm (2009) by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson	Audie Award for Science Fiction	Finalist	[8]
2011	Among the Missing (2011) by Morag Joss	Earphone Award	Winner	[9]
2011	The Book of Spies by Gayle Lynds	Audie Award for Thriller or Suspense	Finalist	[10]
2012	1222 (2011) by Anne Holt	Earphone Award	Winner	[11]
2012	The Boy in the Snow (2012) by M.J. McGrath	Earphone Award	Winner	[12]
2012	The Thirteen Hallows (2011) by Michael Scott and Colette Freedman	Earphone Award	Winner	[13]
2012	Trapeze (2012) by Simon Mawer	Earphone Award	Winner	[14]
2013	Breasts by Florence Williams	Audie Award for Nonfiction	Winner	[15][16]
2013	The Last Runaway (2013) by Tracy Chevalier	Earphone Award	Winner	[17]
2013	A Memory of Light (2013) by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson	Earphone Award	Winner	[18]
2014	Words of Radiance (2014) by Brandon Sanderson	Earphone Award	Winner	[19]
2015	My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead	Audie Award for Autobiography or Memoir	Winner	[20]
2015	The Siege Winter (2015) by Ariana Franklin and Samantha Norman	Earphone Award	Winner	[21]
2015	Words of Radiance (2014)	Audie Award for Fantasy	Winner	[15][22]
2016	The Story of Egypt: The Civilization That Shaped the World (2016) by Joann Fletcher	Earphone Award	Winner	[23]
2016	A Study in Scarlet Women (2016) by Sherry Thomas	Earphone Award	Winner	[24]
2016	The Velvet Hours (2016) by Alyson Richman	Earphone Award	Winner	[25]
2017	A Conspiracy in Belgravia (2017) by Sherry Thomas	Earphone Award	Winner	[26]
2017	A Duke in Shining Armor: Difficult Dukes (2017) by Loretta Chase	Earphone Award	Winner	[27]
2017	The Glass Town Game (2017) by Catherynne M. Valente	Earphone Award	Winner	[28]
2018	The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter (2017) by Theodora Goss	Audie Award for Fantasy	Winner	[29]
2018	The Tangled Lands (2010) by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell	Earphone Award	Winner	[30]
2018	When a Duke Loves a Woman (2018) by Lorraine Heath	Earphone Award	Winner	[31]
2019	The Art of Theft (2019) by Sherry Thomas	Earphone Award	Winner	[32]
2019	At the End of the Century (2019) by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	Earphone Award	Winner	[33]
2020	Death and the Maiden (2020) by Samantha Norman and Ariana Franklin	Earphone Award	Winner	[34]
2019	European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman by Theodora Goss	Audie Award for Fantasy	Finalist	[35]
2020	Midnight Train to Prague (2020) by Carol Windley	Earphone Award	Winner	[36]
2020	The Prophet (1923) by Kahlil Gibran	Earphone Award	Winner	[37]
2020	Rhythm of War (2020) by Brandon Sanderson	Earphone Award	Winner	[38]
2020	Ten Things I Hate About the Duke (2020) by Loretta Chase	Earphone Award	Winner	[39]
2022	Rhythm of War (2020) by Brandon Sanderson	Audie Award for Fantasy	Winner	[15][40]
2021	The Souvenir Museum (2021) by Elizabeth McCracken	Earphone Award	Winner	[41]

"Best of" lists

Year	Title	Award	Ref.
2008	Captain's Fury	AudioFile Best Fantasy of the Year	[15]
2009	Cursor's Fury	AudioFile Best Fantasy of the Year	[15]
2010	Bright-Sided	AudioFile Best Contemporary Culture of the Year	[15]
2012	Bling Goddess	AudioFile Best Mystery & Suspense of the Year	[15]
2012	Mischief of the Mistletoe by Lauren Willig	RUSA Listen List	[42]
2013	The Garden Intrigue (2013) by Lauren Willig	RUSA Listen List	[43][44]
2015	Gretel and the Case of the Missing Frog Prints	AudioFile Best Mystery & Suspense of the Year	[15]
2015	Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase	RUSA Listen List	[45][46]
2016	And Only to Deceive by Tasha Alexander	RUSA Listen List	[47]
2017	A Conspiracy in Belgravia	AudioFile Best Mystery & Suspense of the Year	[15]

Stage performances

Performances listed alphabetically by show^[48]

Show	Role	Company
After the Fall	Holga	Theater J
Andy and the Shadows	Raya	Theater J
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches	Ethel Rosenberg, Rabbi Chemelwitz, Hannah Pitt	Forum Theatre
Angels in America: Perestroika	Ethel Rosenberg, Hannah Pitt	Forum Theatre
Apples from the Desert	Victoria	Theater J
A Beautiful View	Lane	Studio Theatre
Cherokee	Janine	Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company
Circle Mirror Transformation	Marty	Studio Theatre
Clybourne Park	Bev/Kathy	Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company
The Cripple of Inishmaan	Kate Osbourne	SCENA Theatre
Dead Man's Cell Phone	Other Woman	Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company
Grace	Sara	Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company
Homebody/Kabul	Mahala	Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company
Imagining Madoff	Secretary	Theater J
Legacy of Light	Wet Nurse, Olivia	Arena Stage
Lenny & Lou	Julie Riggio	Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company
Measure for Measure	Lady Vanity Lustforth	Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company
The New Electric Ballroom	Ada	Studio Theatre
Pluto	Elizabeth Miller	Forum Theatre
The Rocky Horror Show	Magenta	Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	The Arc	Sally
1992	Literary Visions	Actor	1 episode: Artful Resonance: Theme in Poetry
1994	Homicide: Life on the Street	Kerry Weston	1 episode: See No Evil
1994	Serial Mom	Reporter
1997	Frontline	Self / Narration	1 episode: The Lost American
2013	My Synthesized Life	Phone operator	1 episode: Freak