Our head of safety management was the one who pressed the button that made Audible.com go live in 1997. Since then, he’s had a front row seat to some incredible moments in our history. He’s retiring this spring, so we asked him to share his favorites.
The growing catalogue offers Audible listeners more than 40 cinematic listening experiences—and offers Audible creators another powerful tool for entertainment and innovation.
Four new audio plays coming to Audible on March 23 feature performances by Francis Jue, Tuc Watkins, Alison Pill, Reed Birney, Marsha Mason, Harriet Harris, Bill Brochtrup, Adam Kantor, Juan Castano, Zehra Fazal, Michael Cullen, and more.
Starring Tituss Burgess, Jane Krakowski and directed by Christopher Gattelli, “Center of the YOUniverse” will be performed live for three nights only at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre and recorded live to be released globally as an Audible Original.
After launching programs designed to support more women to work on Wall Street, Anne Erni joined her mission to Audible’s, helping us deepen and extend our workplace culture of Spectrum and Belonging across our hubs worldwide.
The newly unveiled Harriet Tubman monument, commissioned by the City of Newark and designed by architect Nina Cooke John, features an immersive audio experience performed by Newark native Queen Latifah and produced by Audible.
World-renowned artists Kelly Rowland and Sara Bareilles will judge “Breakthrough,” Audible’s groundbreaking first-ever audio-only singing competition series hosted by Grammy and Tony Award-winner Daveed Diggs. The series premieres on June 1.
Amplifying stories from across the human spectrum is what drives us year-round, and this month we’re excited to share inspiring listens from Black voices across a multitude of genres and host events that support our employees’ creativity.
In hilarious and nuanced explorations of fatherhood and grief, Chris Gethard’s “A Father & The Sun” and Michael Cruz Kayne’s “Sorry For Your Loss”, directed by Josh Sharp, will be recorded live at Minetta Lane Theatre and released as Audible Originals.
The first season of “Marvel’s Wastelanders” follows Peter Quill and Rocket through an alternate future ruled by villains. Releasing internationally in June, the cinematic audio experience will be produced in French, German, Hindi, Italian, and Japanese.
Andre Royo, best known for “The Wire,” will star in a new production of the critically acclaimed play “Drinking in America” at the Minetta Lane Theatre this March. The show will also be recorded as an Audible Original for our listeners around the world.
A new Audible Stories skill for Alexa offers listeners inspiration and entertainment with free, original short stories created across multiple genres, for different ages and moods.