Alison Larkin (born April 28, 1963) is an English American comedian, novelist, actress, and audiobook narrator. Her novel ''The English American'' sprang from her autobiographical one-woman comedy show about an adopted English woman who finds her birth parents in the United States. The show previewed at the Manchester Royal Exchange and the Edinburgh Assembly Rooms in 2000, and received its London premiere as part of the London Comedy Festival at the Soho Theatre in London in 2004. '' The Times'' reviewed it as "marvelously light footed, hugely entertaining reflections… a lesson in the human condition."

Career

Larkin trained as a classical actress at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. After playing Daisy in ''Daisy Pulls It Off'' at the Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead, and originating the role of Flora Poste in ''Cold Comfort Farm'' at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury, in 1990, she moved to New York City and began a new career as a stand-up comic, appearing regularly at Comic Strip Live in New York and

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in LA. She also appeared on Broadway in the Royal National Theater's production of

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and Off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club where she understudied Harriet Walter in ''Three Birds Alighting on a Field'' and Allison Janney in ''New England''. Her many voice-over roles include Pauline in ''Pauline’s Perilous Pyramid'' for

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(1992), The Good Witch of The North and the China Princess in The Firesign Theatre’s ''The Wonderful World of Oz'' (2000) and Hermione in the

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Writing

Larkin's autobiographical novel ''The English American'' about an adopted English woman who finds her birth mother in the United States was published by Simon & Schuster in 2008 and became a bestseller. Larkin narrated the audiobook which won an AudioFile (magazine) Earphones award in 2012.

Audiobooks

Larkin has recorded over 200 audiobooks including ''The Complete Novels of Jane Austen'', the ''Swallows and Amazons'' series by Arthur Ransome and the

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series by M.C. Beaton. She has won multiple awards for her audiobook narrations including AudioFile Earphones Awards for ''Peter Pan and the Inconsiderate Waiter'', ''Sense and Sensibility'', and ''Dracula & Carmilla''. In 2016 she founded her own audiobook production company, Alison Larkin Presents, which offers fresh reads on classic English novels, contemporary mysteries, women's fiction, nonfiction, and more.

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External links

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Alison Larkin - Primary Artist Site

Alison Larkin Presents - Audiobook Publisher Site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Larkin, Alison 1963 births Living people American women comedians American women novelists Audiobook narrators Alumni of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art American people of English descent 21st-century American women

Career

Writing

Audiobooks

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