Michael Crouch (actor)

Michael Lockwood Crouch (born May 17, 1984, in Austin, Texas)^[1] is an American voice actor. He has recorded over 300 audiobooks, through which he received 29 Earphone Awards, 2 Audie Awards, 1 Voice Arts Award, and 1 Odyssey Award honor.^[2] In June 2021, AudioFile named him a Golden Voice Narrator.^[3][4][5] As an actor, he is best known for his roles on the English-language Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh! television series.

Biography

Crouch was born May 17, 1984, in Austin, Texas.^[1] He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Musical Theatre from Ithaca College in 2007.

Crouch began narrating audiobooks in 2013.^[4] He specializes in voicing young adult characters, LGBT fiction and nonfiction, and Southern American literature.

Crouch presently lives in New York City.

Awards and honors

Awards

Year	Title	Author(s)	Award	Result	Ref.
2014	Loot: How to Steal a Fortune (2014)	Jude Watson	Earphone Award	Winner	[6]
	Maggot Moon (2012)	Sally Gardner	Odyssey Award	Honor	[2][7][8]
2016	All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook (2016)	Leslie Connor	Earphone Award	Winner	[9]
	Baker's Magic	Diane Zahler	Earphone Award	Winner	[10]
	The Big Dark (2016)	Rodman Philbrick	Earphone Award	Winner	[11]
	Nine Women, One Dress (2016)	Jane L. Rosen	Earphone Award	Winner	[12]
	Salt to the Sea (2016)	Ruta Sepetys	Earphone Award	Winner	[13]
	The Serpent King (2016)	Jeff Zentner	Earphone Award	Winner	[14]
2017	All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook (2016)	Leslie Connor	Audie Award for Middle Grade Title	Finalist	[15]
	Goodbye Days (2017)	Jeff Zentner	Earphone Award	Winner	[16]
	New York 2140	Kim Stanley Robinson	Earphone Award	Winner	[17]
	Salt to the Sea (2016)	Ruta Sepetys	Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults	Top 10	[18]
	Salt to the Sea (2016)	Ruta Sepetys	Audie Award for Young Adult Title	Winner	[15][3][4]
	See You in the Cosmos (2017)	Jack Cheng	Earphone Award	Winner	[19]
	Wink Poppy Midnight (2016)	April Genevieve Tucholke	Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults	Top 10	[18]
2018	Any Man (2018)	Amber Tamblyn	Earphone Award	Winner	[20]
	Heretics Anonymous (2018	Katie Henry	Earphone Award	Winner	[21]
	Hope Nation: YA Authors Share Personal Moments of Inspiration (2018)	Rose Brock (Ed.)	Earphone Award	Winner	[22]
	I Have Lost My Way (2018)	Gayle Forman	Earphone Award	Winner	[23]
	In Sight of Stars (2018)	Gae Polisner	Earphone Award	Winner	[24]
	A Key to Treehouse Living (2018)	Elliot Reed	Earphone Award	Winner
	New York 2140	Kim Stanley Robinson	Audie Award for Excellence in Production	Finalist	[25]
	New York 2140	Kim Stanley Robinson	Audie Award for Science Fiction	Finalist	[25]
	Oliver Loving (2018)	Stefan Merrill Block	Earphone Award	Winner	[26]
	Rebuttal	Jyotsna Hariharan	Audie Award for Original Work	Finalist	[25]
	See You in the Cosmos (2017)	Jack Cheng	Audie Award for Middle Grade Title	Winner	[25][27]
	The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik (2018)	David Arnold	Earphone Award	Winner	[28]
	Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful (2018)	Arwen Elys Dayton	Earphone Award	Winner	[29]
	What I Leave Behind (2018)	Alison McGhee	Earphone Award	Winner	[30]
2019	Any Man (2018)	Amber Tamblyn	Audie Award for Multi-Voiced Performance	Finalist	[31]
	I Have Lost My Way (2018)	Gayle Forman	Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults	Top 10	[32][33]
	Lights All Night Long (2019)	Lydia Fitzpatrick	Earphone Award	Winner	[34]
2020	Like a Love Story (2019)	Abdi Nazemian	Audie Award for Young Adult Title	Finalist	[35][36]
	Lone Stars (2021)	Justin Deabler	Earphone Award	Winner	[37]
	Lyrics for Rock Stars (2020)	Heather Mateus Sappenfield	Earphone Award	Winner	[38]
	Wink (2020)	Rob Harrell	Earphone Award	Winner	[39]
2021	A Good Girl's Guide to Murder	Holly Jackson	Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults	Top 10	[40][41]
	In the Wild Light (2021)	Jeff Zentner	Earphone Award	Winner	[42]
	Lyrics for Rock Stars (2020)	Heather Mateus Sappenfield	Voice Arts Award for Audiobook Narration: Short Story Anthology: Best Voiceover	Winner	[43]
	The Morning Star (2021)	Karl Ove Knausgård	Earphone Award	Winner	[44]
	Together We Will Go (2021)	J. Michael Straczynski	Earphone Award	Winner	[45]
2022	The Best American Short Stories 2021	Jesmyn Ward and Heidi Pitlor	Audie Award for Short Stories or Collections	Finalist	[46]
	Groundskeeping (2022)	Lee Cole	Earphone Award	Winner	[47]
	Lyrics for Rock Stars	Heather Mateus Sappenfield	Audie Award for Short Stories or Collections	Finalist	[46]
	Take Your Breath Away (2022)	Linwood Barclay	Earphone Award	Winner	[48]

"Best of" Lists

Year	Title	Author	Honor	Ref.
2016	The Big Dark (2016)	Rodman Philbrick	AudioFile Best Children & Family Listening's Titles	[3]
	Salt to the Sea (2016)	Ruta Sepetys	AudioFile Best Young Adult Titles	[3][4]
	The Serpent King (2016)	Jeff Zentner	AudioFile Best Young Adult Titles	[3]
	Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (2015)	Becky Albertalli	Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults	[49]
2017	See You in the Cosmos	Jack Cheng	AudioFile Best Children & Family Listening Titles	[3]
	Goodbye Days (2017)	Jeff Zentner	AudioFile Best Young Adult Titles	[3]
	The Ship of the Dead	Rick Riordan	AudioFile Best Children & Family Listening Titles	[3][4]
2018	Goodbye Days	Jeff Zentner	Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults	[50]
	The Great Believers	Rebecca Makkai	Slate Magazine Best Audiobooks	[51]
	I Have Lost My Way (2018)	Gayle Forman	AudioFile Best Young Adult Titles	[3][4]
	Hope Nation: YA Authors Share Personal Moments of Inspiration (2018)	Rose Brock (Ed.)	AudioFile Best Young Adult Titles	[3]
	Oliver Loving (2018)	Stefan Merrill Block	AudioFile Best Fiction	[3][4]
2019	The Journey of Little Charlie	Christopher Paul Curtis	Notable Children's Recordings	[52][53]
	The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik (2018)	David Arnold	Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults	[32][54]
2020	Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful (2018)	Arwen Elys Dayton	Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults	[55]
	White Bird	R. J. Palacio	Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults	[55]
2021	The Talk: Conversations About Race, Love & Truth	Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson (Eds.)	Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults	[56]
2022	In the Wild Light (2021)	Jeff Zentner	Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults	[57]

Voice acting credits

Year	Title	Media Type	Role(s)	Note
2009-2012	Skatoony	TV Series	Chudd Chudders
2013	Grand Theft Auto V	Video game	The Local Population
2016	Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions (English version)	Film	Young Bakura
2014-2016	Pokémon (English version)	TV series	Trevor Additional Voices Man Pink Shirt Team Flare Grunt Spectator 1 Man D	18 episodes
2016	Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links	Video game	Sylvio Sawatari Evan
2014-2017	Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V	TV series	Sylvio Sawatari	15 episodes
2018	Red Dead Redemption 2	Video game	The Local Pedestrian Population
2021	12 Mighty Orphans	Film	Movie Theater Announcer