Alison Larkin (Writer and Performer) is an internationally acclaimed comedienne, award winning audiobook narrator, producer, voice artist, TV comedy writer, actress, and the bestselling author of The English American, a novel which sprang from her first autobiographical one woman show of the same name. Alison trained as an actress at the Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London and went on to play leading roles on the English stage. Then she found her birth mother in Tennessee, moved to New York and became a stand-up comic. As an actress she appeared on Broadway in Stanley at the Royal National Theater and Off Broadway with the Royal Shakespeare Company. As a stand-up she was a regular at the Comic Strip in NY and the Comedy Store in LA where she spent three years under studio contract with Jim Henson Productions, ABC, and CBS Studios to star in and co-write her own sitcom. Her first solo show was performed at the HBO Workspace in LA, the Manchester Royal Exchange, the Edinburgh Festival’s Assembly Rooms and the Soho Theater in London and helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for adoption related organizations. Her wide range of voices can be heard in countless cartoons and movies from The Wonderpets to work by James Cameron and the Coen brothers. Alison moved to the Berkshires in 2010, since when she has narrated over 200 audiobooks, including the Complete Novels of Jane Austen which is the # 1 bestselling Austen audiobook in the world. Her audiobook company Alison Larkin Presents has produced almost 100 audiobooks and won 13 AudioFile Earphones awards for excellence, including for Alison’s own narration of Sense and Sensibility, The Secret Garden, and Jane Eyre. Alison was planning a new life with her fiancé Bhima, but he died suddenly in July 2020 so now she lives with her rescue dachshund Charlie pondering what to do next. Meanwhile, the TV comedy series she is co-writing with screenwriter Lucy Shuttleworth is under development and her audiobook production of Moby Dick read by Berkshire actor Jonathan Epstein was a 2022 Audie award finalist in Literary Classics and Fiction. Other Berkshire actors Larkin has produced on audio include Tina Packer (Women of Will), Allyn Burrows (The Great Gatsby) and Anne Undeland (Little Women). If you have a favorite classic novel and/or would like to support local talent and/or join the Alison Larkin Presents audiobook team as a co-producer, please contact Alison directly via her website, www.alisonlarkinpresents.com.

James Warwick (Director) trained at the Royal Central School in London. He spent his early years in UK regional theater and in many productions in London’s West End. Several TV series followed; Lillie, The Nightmare Man, Dr. Who, The Bell, and most notably playing Tommy Beresford in Partners in Crime for PBS Masterpiece Theatre. James has had a fulfilling career as both actor and director in the US for the last 20 years; on Broadway, (Sir Robert Chiltern in Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband), in Los Angeles, Washington DC, and on national tour playing King Arthur in Camelot. Guest TV roles include Murder She Wrote, Babylon 5, Civil Wars, etc. James has received BAFTA, Helen Hayes, Showcase, and Ovation awards for his theater and television work. James also narrates audiobooks, most recently The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Audiophile Magazine award). James is a frequent director at Shakespeare & Company.

Gary Schreiner (Composer) is an Emmy-award-winning performer, studio musician, composer, producer, and arranger. His work on keyboards, accordion, and chromatic harmonica can be heard on many recordings, television shows, and films. He has worked with artists such as Elton John, Rosanne Cash, Patti LaBelle, Yoko Ono, Marvin Hamlisch, Run-DMC, Carly Simon, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, and Kermit the Frog. Gary has written music for hundreds of television commercials including a number of Super Bowl spots. His compositions have featured on TV shows such as Oprah Winfrey, Martha Stewart, X Files, and Chappelle’s Show. Gary has composed music featured in films including Ray, Thank You for Smoking, Love Happens, and Get On Up. In theater, Gary has co-written music for American Star!!!, My Boyfriend is a Zombie, and most recently Betty and The Belrays. Gary composed the music for Alison Larkin’s one-woman show The English American, featured in The Edinburgh Festival and The London Comedy Festival.