Audiobook Narrator

Emotionally rich, character-driven storytelling for your next audiobook.

From historical fiction and cozy mysteries to romance, fantasy, and therapeutic non-fiction, Sherri brings decades of theatre experience and a deep love of audiobooks to every project.

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Recent & Featured Titles

A sample of titles voiced by Sherri. Click any cover to open the book on Audible.

What People Are Saying

If a voice could walk on water, Sherri Slater’s voice certainly would.

Sherri’s voice can be airy and floating, so it seems effortless for her to do sultry, but her voice can also be salty, sassy, and/or Southern, or crisp and clean, with a twist of lime or lemon.

In fact, Sherri Slater’s voice is sometimes exactly like the way she orders her martini:
I would like a very, veery, veeeeery cold and crisp gin and tonic, with exactly three large olives, perpendicular to the stirrer, not speared down the middle, and just a tiny splash of that olive juice. We’ll go naughty today, not dirty.”

Can’t you just hear that?! Of course you can! That’s Sherri Slater.

Her voice can morph into our nation’s beloved Scout narrating To Kill a Mockingbird, the legendary Dorothy Parker, and, I learned very recently, Marilyn Monroe, who is endlessly and breathlessly more difficult to voice than one might think.

Sherri Slater’s voice can be a velvet hammer. Nice metaphor, huh?

If you meet her in person, it becomes immediately clear that Sherri is an actor, stage as well as voice, because she holds herself beautifully, and she enunciates beautifully. The posture is perfect. That’s training, like a great ballerina.

She’s got it, in spades and voices, those are Sherri Slater’s choices.
Listener Audiobook listener
Authors often struggle to capture the perfect voice for their characters — a voice that no one will ever forget. With Sherri Slater, I was fortunate enough to find just that, a perfect, unforgettable voice. From her dedication and grasp of encapsulating varied dialects and cultures, including French, she doesn’t just narrate the characters — she channels them. This is exceptionally revealed in the two main characters, Camille and Chloé. Being able to match her emotion and tone to the words is one of her greatest attributes.
Michael Combs Author of Twice Upon a Time
Sherri had the perfect voice for my novel, In Fashion’s Web. She gave life to every character individually, including male, female, and New York and Italian accents, as well as speaking in French and Japanese. The work and effort Sherri and Mick put into making the production perfect was exceptional. I highly recommend them to anyone who wants their book narrated.
Lynn Ellen Russo ‘Runner Up’, 2016 Shelf Unbound Indie Book Awards
I can’t imagine anyone else voicing the character of Wendy Winkworth.

Sherri Slater did more than simply narrate The Stray Pitch by Marilyn Bos. She brought the smart and sassy Wendy Winkworth to life, capturing her spunk, her sense of humor, and the young PI’s ingenuity as she worked her first case.
Blake Hoena Flat Sole Studio
The Stray Pitch
Enchantingly performed

A delightful first-person account of a private detective undercover in a 1950s women’s baseball team. The author creates fascinating characters, and the narrator performs with a simple Southern charm. Delightful.
Jenny Myers Narrator

About Me

During Covid I became addicted to audiobooks. Here’s my story.

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Early roles on stage gave Sherri a lifelong love of character work and performance.
My passion for theater started at an early age. As number seven of eight, I quickly learned you have to create your own opportunities in life. After playing Marta in a Civic Theater production of The Sound of Music, I knew I could play Maria given half the chance. When the show closed, armed with exuberant confidence, I cast myself as Maria and directed my own adapted production for our elementary school. My life in theater had begun and continued through my first few years of college.

Theater dreams went on hold as other career adventures took priority until I moved to Argentina years later and jumped back in full time: performing children’s theater in schools, acting in local English-language productions, and teaching both theater and English as a second language. During this period I returned to training in New York, studying with Stella Adler, The London Theater Exchange, and others.

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The Intensive Theater Training Program (ITTP) brought conservatory-style training to students in Argentina and Michigan.
After that summer in New York, I returned to Buenos Aires full of ideas and opened an international conservatory-style theater training program — the Intensive Theater Training Program (ITTP). Using simultaneous translators, we brought in instructors from Stella Adler and The London Theater Exchange to teach voice, movement, and text. For three years it was wildly successful and incredibly fun.

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Family, students, and community work continue to shape Sherri’s approach to storytelling and character.
When the economy in Buenos Aires shifted, I moved the program back home to Michigan, rebuilding ITTP as a summer program for Grand Valley State University and Muskegon Community College. Working with local school districts, faith-based programs, and migrant worker initiatives, we added workshops for underserved and inner-city youth.

Eventually, while planning theater training for others, I realized how much I missed performing myself. A demo for Brilliance Audio led to several jobs, but at the time I couldn’t yet see the long-term potential and audiobooks slipped to the back burner.

During Covid, like so many others, I became hooked on listening to audiobooks — and that changed everything. I began studying the industry, coaching with Carol Monda and Andi Arndt, joined the APA, and immersed myself in all things audio. I knew I’d found the right path at the right time. My husband and I built a dedicated studio in our home, and we dove in.

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Studio

Microphones

  • Shure SM7B
  • RØDE NT1

Amplifiers & Interfaces

  • Grace M101
  • CL-1 Cloud Lifter
  • Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (x2)

Computers

  • Dell OptiPlex 9020 · SSD · 8-core i7 (dedicated machines for recording and editing)
  • iPad Pro for scripts and notes

Software

  • iZotope RX8
  • PreSonus Studio One

Recording Booth

  • 4’ x 6’ acoustically treated, isolated, and dedicated recording studio
Sherri's home recording studio

Contact

Whether you’re an independent author, a publisher, or simply a listener who loves audiobooks, I’d love to hear from you.

For casting inquiries, please include:

  • Book title and genre
  • Approximate word count
  • Target delivery date
  • Any accent / character requirements

I’m happy to record a short custom audition using your text so you can hear how the story will sound in your listeners’ ears.

Professional Affiliations

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