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ABOUT ME

My performing debut was at the age of 16 in a school production of My Fair Lady. Since then my theatre credits include: Ren in Footloose, Schlomo in Fame! The Musical, Leo Bloom in The Producers, Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Triton in The Little Mermaid, Lord Montague in Romeo and Juliet, Old Deuteronomy in Cats, The Emperor in The Emperor's Clothes and many more!

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My audiobook narraton journey began 4 years ago. I've always loved reading stories to my children, particularly inventing voices for the characters, and translating that passion into a vocation has been utterly invigorating. I always say to people that being able to play every character in a story, as opposed to the one that a play or musical normally affords, is the biggest joy of narrating an audiobook. Holding the voices and mannerisms of a whole cast of characters inside my head and calling upon them at will is as challenging as it sounds. Happily, this challenge is an absolute thrill for me!

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My hope is to transport listeners so entirely into the pages of a book, that they forget that it's a man in a booth they're listening to. I want the characters I narrate to become alive. If a listener can forget, even briefly, that they're listening to a one-actor production, and start to believe they are eavesdropping on a real troupe of characters, I'll have done my job, and done it well.  

Toby J Smith

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