I Was Dreaming to Come to America: Memories from the Ellis Island Oral History Project Audiobook, by Veronica Lawlor Play Audiobook Sample

I Was Dreaming to Come to America: Memories from the Ellis Island Oral History Project Audiobook

I Was Dreaming to Come to America: Memories from the Ellis Island Oral History Project Audiobook, by Veronica Lawlor Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Allyson Johnson, Catherine Byers, Marc Vietor, Peter Ganim, Victor Bevine, Wendy Bagger Publisher: Listening Library Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 0.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 0.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: February 2019 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780525628897

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

4

Longest Chapter Length:

17:03 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

24 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

04:51 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

In their own words, immigrants recall their arrival in the United States. Includes brief biographies and facts about the Ellis Island Oral History Project.

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About the Narrators

Allyson Johnson is an actress and singer who began performing at age twelve as coanchor of Bubble Gum Digest, for which she won an Emmy. After earning a degree in psychology from Brown University, she moved to New York where she became a social worker before shifting to a career in television and radio. Johnson has recorded countless commercials, promos, audiobooks, narrations, and animation series.

Catherine Byers has appeared in numerous Broadway plays. She has recorded more than 750 audiobooks over a period of thirty-two years and was the 1996 recipient of the coveted Alexander Scourby Award for Narrator of the Year. Ms. Byers was twice the winner of the New Jersey Drama Critics Award for best actress in a play.

Marc Vietor, an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator, is an actor working with the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Sundance Theatre Lab, Ravinia Festival, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Old Globe, and many others. His film and television credits include Asylum Seekers, Law & Order, and Onion News Network. He has narrated many books for Audible.com, including the award-winning 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. He is a graduate of Yale University and The Juilliard School.

Peter Ganim, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is an American actor who has appeared on stage, on television, and in film. He has performed voice-over work since 1994.

Victor Bevine, Earphones Award–winning narrator, has worked for over thirty years as an actor, screenwriter, narrator, director, and more. A graduate of Yale University, his acting credits include many prestigious roles onstage as well as roles in the film version of A Separate Peace and countless television shows. He has written several screenplays, including Certainty, which was chosen for two prestigious writers’ conferences and which served as the basis for his first novel. His thirty-minute short film Desert Cross, which he wrote and directed, won accolades at the Athens International Film Festival. He serves as CEO of the World Freerunning Parkour Federation, of which he is cofounder.