Traci Ann Svendsgaard has been involved in narration and radio for more than 25 years. She is in demand as a voice over artist for radio and TV commercials, promos, software, websites, on hold messages and for narration of documentaries, event, training, sales and point of purchase presentations. Her radio experience spans classical, popular, rock, talk and radio theatre. Since 1993 she and her husband have produced and hosted The Retro Lounge, a weekly rock and radio theatre program at Jefferson Public Radio. Traci pulls listeners into the web of words that tell the author’s story in her warm, intimate and versatile voice.

Tom Weiner was an actor with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival before he moved to Los Angeles. For 25 years his voice was heard in hundreds of films, such as Rocky and Sahara, promos, animated and live-action television series, commercials, documentaries and video/CD Rom games. He also made a living as a dialogue director and script writer for TV series such as Transformers: Robots in Disguise and Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. Since moving back to Oregon in 2005 he has recorded many audio books including Blood Diamonds by Greg Campbell, The Green Hills of Earth by Robert Heinlein and Beyond Band of Brothers by Major Dick Winters. 

Though she began her performing life as a classical musician (specifically, an oboist), Pam Ward found her true calling the day she crawled out of the orchestra pit and onto the stage. She has lived and worked in all four corners of the country – and many locations in between – honing her skills from Off-Broadway theatre to film, live television and voice work leavened with a twenty year stretch with the Library of Congress program, Talking Books. She has well over three hundred books available to the blind and physically handicapped through this program, as well as uncounted articles on a very wide range of subjects. During her time with Talking Books, she became known for her recordings of Danielle Steele’s books, and the Sharon McCone series of detective novels set in the San Francisco area. Her favorite book was Fannie Flagg’s Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, with its opportunity to bring many amazing and delightful characters to life. She received the Alexander Scourby Award for Juvenile Literature from the Library of Congress; and the best part of that honor – it was a vote from her readers. Now based in southern Oregon, she’s delighted to be back doing two of her favorite things – reading and talking. As her father once said, “a really smart way for you to make a living!”

Paul Michael Garcia received his classical theatre training at Southern Oregon University in Ashland. Paul has worked as an actor, director and scenic designer during his studies at SOU including title roles in Aeschylus, Oresteia trilogy and Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail. At age twenty seven, Paul is now an actor for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and audio book narrator for Blackstone Audio.

In less than one year at Blackstone Audio he has narrated fifteen titles, seven of which have been released, including Chuck Palahniuk’s Survivor. Paul studied audio book narration under Kate Fleming of Cedarhouse audio in Seattle where they collaborated on the BBC’s The Perfect Fake by Barbara Parker.

Jeff Cummings has been a professional actor for twenty years and is currently in his seventh season with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Roles at OSF include: Jack Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest, Berowne in Love's Labour's Lost, Harry Thunder in Wild Oats, Nick in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Dr. Paramore in The Philanderer, and Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice.

Prior to O.S.F., Jeff worked on productions in theatres from New Jersey to Washington with roles and theatres including Septimus in Arcadia for both A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle, and the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta; Malcolm in Macbeth at Portland Center Stage; James Leeds in Children of a Lesser God & Alphonse (and others) in ON The Verge for The South Jersey Regional Theatre; Kenny in Laughter on the 23RD Floor with Sacramento Theatre Company; Albert Einstein in Picasso at the Lapin Agile for The Tacoma Actors Guild.

Jeff's narration of American Promtheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize, comes out in March 2007 from Blackstone Audio.

Christine Williams is an actor and singer with extensive experience on both the theatre and concert stage, having appeared at The Barbican Centre (London, England), American Opera Projects (New York City), Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Aspen Opera Theatre Center, TheatreWorks, and eight seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, in Ashland, Oregon, where she makes her home. In the Southern Oregon Rogue Valley, she has appeared at the Oregon Cabaret Theatre, Rogue Music Theatre, Rogue Opera, The Old Siskiyou Barn, the Craterian Ginger Rogers Theatre, and as a guest artist on the faculty of Southern Oregon University. She is a member of Southern Oregon Repertory Singers, the celtic music group, Thistledown, and is the co-founder of Southern Oregon Alternative Productions (SOAP) Opera, an organization of performing artists dedicated to presentations of interesting pieces in unusual places. Christine has extensive experience in commercial voice-over recording and as a narrator of audio books for Blackstone Audio.