Carol Monda

Carol is a veteran actor of various stages including Manhattan Theatre Club, Perry Street Theatre, Arena Stage, HB Studio, The Shakespeare Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Charles Playhouse, Ford's Theatre and Classic Stage Company, where she voiced the premiere of American Opera Project's Darkling which toured in the US, Poland and Germany. Stage roles include the Snow Queen at The Kennedy Center, Celimene in Roundhouse Theatre's The Misanthrope, Limer in Morticians in Love (Helen Hayes Award Nomination) and Hillary in Albee Damned (Best Actress, SpotlightOn Award). She is a member of Emerging Artists Theatre Company and an alumna of Washington Shakespeare Company and Everyman Theatre Company. Her film credits include Out of Season, The Gentleman, Thou Shalt Not Mysogenate and After You Left. She was also seen in the WB TV Network's The Beat. Carol is an Audie and Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator of over 4oo titles. She has read for Recorded Books, Harper Audio, Audible.Com, Brilliance Audio, Hachette Book Group, Books On Tape, Clipper Audio, listentogenius.com, Academic Merit, Edge Studio, HighBridge Audio, METABOOK, Books on Tape, Redwood Audio, Edge Studio and Blackstone Audio. She has voiced promos, documentaries, commercials, short form narratives, animated films, spoken word sound recordings, theatrical narrations, awards programs and television dramas. Her clients include Turner Classic Movies, McDonald's, Discovery ID, Marriot, The Guggenheim, USDA, Bell Atlantic, NY Historical Society, HSBC, Red Cross, Sag-Aftra, Tena, AFL-CIO, American Cancer Society, WNET, CitiCorp and TNT. Carol has been teaching and coaching in theatre and voiceover for over 25 years. She has led classes in acting, voice and speech, scene study, audition techniques, text analysis, accent reduction, audiobook narration and voiceover. Carol has served as an adjunct professor in commercial voiceover and narration at NYU's Digital Design and Film School and has taught Voice and Speech III at NYU's Tisch School for the Arts. She's directed and taught acting at New York City's Professional Performing Arts School and at Belvoir Terrace in the Berkshires. Carol has also worked in and around Washington, DC at Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts, Roundhouse Theatre, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Bethesda Arts Center and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. She coaches voiceover and directs demos at Edge Studio in NYC and offers private coaching. She received her training at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, Boston University Theatre Institute and Catholic University, where she earned her BFA in Acting and a Best Actress Hartke Award at the Callan Theatre. Carol is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association and Sag-Aftra, where she serves as a member of its National Audiobook Steering Committee.