Audie Award for Audio Drama
The Audie Award for Audio Drama is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in performance, production, and content for an audiodrama released in a given year. Originally the award was given as the Audie Award for Theatrical Production in 1999; in 2000 and 2001 the award was given as the Audie Award for Theatrical Performance. The award was not given in 2002.
Winners and finalists
1990s
| Year of Release | Audio Drama | Author | Cast | Audio Drama Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 4th |
The Road to Mecca (1984) | Athol Fugard | Julie Harris, Amy Irving, and Harris Yulin | L.A. Theatre Works |
| A Little Princess (1999) | Frances Hodgson Burnett (adapted by John Vreeke) | Full cast | NYS Theatre Institute/Family Classic Audio Books | |
| All My Sons (1946) | Arthur Miller | Julie Harris, James Farentino, and Arye Gross | L.A. Theatre Works |
2000s
| Year of Release | Audio Drama | Author | Cast | Audio Drama Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 5th |
A Prairie Home Companion: 25th Anniversary (1999) | Garrison Keillor | Garrison Keillor | HighBridge Audio |
| A Fair Country (1996) | Jon Robin Baitz | Judith Ivey, David Dukes, Kurt Deutsch, and Matt McGrath | L.A. Theatre Works | |
| Pretty Fire (1995) | Charlayne Woodard | Charlayne Woodard | L.A. Theatre Works | |
| 2001 6th |
Agnes of God (1979) | John Pielmeier | Barbara Bain, Emily Bergl, and Harriet Harris | L.A. Theatre Works |
| Neat (2000) | Charlayne Woodard | Charlayne Woodard | L.A. Theatre Works | |
| Table Manners (1973) | Alan Ayckbourn | Rosalind Ayres, Ken Danziger, Martin Jarvis, Jane Leeves, Christopher Neame, and Carolyn Seymour | L.A. Theatre Works | |
| 2002 7th |
No award presented | |||
| 2003 8th |
The Guys (2002) | Anne Nelson | Swoosie Kurtz and Bill Irwin | Random House Audio |
| Billy Budd, Sailor (1924; written 1892) | Herman Melville (Dramatized by Philip Glassborow and Paul McCusker) | Full cast | Focus on the Family | |
| Hedda Gabler (1891) | Henrik Ibsen | Juliet Stevenson, Michael Maloney, Philip Voss, Emma Fielding, and full cast | Naxos Audiobooks | |
| King Lear (1606) | William Shakespeare | Paul Scofield, Alec McCowen, Kenneth Branagh, and full cast | Naxos Audiobooks | |
| The Silver Chair (1953) | C. S. Lewis (dramatized by Paul McCusker) | Full cast | Focus on the Family | |
| 2004 9th |
The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare (2003) | William Shakespeare | Full cast | The Audio Partners |
| The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956) | C. S. Lewis (dramatized by Paul McCusker) | Full cast | Focus on the Family | |
| At Home in Mitford (1996) | Jan Karon (dramatized by Paul McCusker) | Full cast | Tyndale Audio | |
| Father Gilbert Mysteries (Series 2) (2004) | Paul McCusker | Full cast | Focus on the Family | |
| On the Waterfront (1954) | Budd Schulberg | Full cast | L.A. Theatre Works | |
| 2005 10th |
Buddha Boy (2003) | Kathe Koja | Spencer Murphy and the Full Cast Family | Full Cast Audio |
| Anne of Green Gables (1908) | L. M. Montgomery (dramatized by Chris Fabry) | Full cast | Tyndale Audio | |
| Going to St. Ives (1996) | Lee Blessing | L. Scott Caldwell and Caroline Goodall | L.A. Theatre Works | |
| The Handmaid's Tale (1985) | Margaret Atwood (adapted by Michael O'Brien) | Michael O'Brien | BTC Audiobooks/Goose Lane Editions | |
| The Stone Angel (1964) | Margaret Laurence (adapted by James W. Nichol) | James W. Nichol | BTC Audiobooks/Goose Lane Editions | |
| 2006[1] 11th |
The Sherlock Holmes Theatre (2005) | Arthur Conan Doyle (adapted by Arthur Conan Doyle, William Gillette and Yuri Rasovsky) | Martin Jarvis, Kristoffer Tabori, and full cast | Blackstone Audio |
| At the Back of the North Wind (1871) | George MacDonald (adapted by Murray Watts and Philip Glassborow) | Full cast | Tyndale House | |
| The Blind Assassin (2000) | Margaret Atwood (adapted by Michael O'Brien) | Full cast | BTC Audiobooks/Goose Lane Editions | |
| Frozen (1998) | Bryony Lavery | Rosalind Ayres, Jeffrey Donovan, and Laila Robins | L.A. Theatre Works | |
| The Hiding Place (1971) | Corrie ten Boom (dramatized by Dave Arnold) | Full cast | Tyndale House | |
| 2007[2] 12th |
The Life of Jesus: Dramatic Eyewitness Accounts from the Luke Reports (2006) | Paul McCusker | Full cast | Tyndale/Focus on the Family |
| Airborn (2004) | Kenneth Oppel | David Kelly and full cast | Full Cast Audio | |
| Kong: King of Skull Island (2004) | Joe DeVitoand Brad Strickland | David Baker and full cast | Full Cast Audio | |
| Nightmares on Congress Street (Part V) (2006) | Fitz-James O'Brien, Edgar Allan Poe, Alex Irvine, Michael Duffy, Ray Bradbury, Hugh B. Cave, and H. P. Lovecraft | Full cast | Tantor Media | |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) | Oscar Wilde (dramatized by Nick McCarty) | Jamie Glover and full cast | BBC Audiobooks America | |
| 2008[3][4] 13th |
Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls (2007) | Yuri Rasovsky | Phil Proctor,
Simon Templeman, Moira Quirk, Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres, Robertson Dean, and W. Morgan Sheppard |
Blackstone Audio |
| Princess Academy (2005) | Shannon Hale | Laura Credidio | Full Cast Audio | |
| Radio Theatre: Amazing Grace (2007) | Paul McCuskerand Dave Arnold | Robert Lindsay, David Oyelowo, Chris Larkin, Donald Sinden, Martin Jarvis, Laura-Michelle Kelly, and full cast | Focus on the Family/Tyndale House | |
| The Star Beast (1954) | Robert A. Heinlein | David Baker | Full Cast Audio | |
| Vienna Prelude (2000) | Bodie Thoene | Sean Barrett | Family Audio Library | |
| 2009[5][6] 14th |
The Odyssey (8th or 9th century B.C.) | Homer (dramatized by Simon Armitage) | Tim McInnerny, Amanda Redman, and full cast | BBC Audiobooks America |
| Jack's Last Call (2008) | Patrick Fenton | Len Cariou and full cast | SueMedia Productions | |
| Secret Order (2008) | Bob Clyman | George Segal, Will McCormack, Angela Goethals, and Richard Schiff | L.A. Theatre Works | |
| Sun Moon Stars Rain (2006) | Jan Cheripko | Spencer Murphy | Full Cast Audio | |
| Tales from the Perilous Realm | J. R. R. Tolkien (adapted by Brian Sibley) | Michael Hordern and full cast | BBC Audiobooks America | |
2010s
| Year of Release | Audio Drama | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Audio Drama Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010[7][8] 15th |
The Word of Promise(1982) | Carl Amari (producer) [9] | Michael York, Richard Dreyfuss, Gary Sinise, and full cast | Thomas Nelson |
| Focus on the Family Radio Theatre: C. S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters (1942) | C. S. Lewis (adapted by Paul McCusker) | Andy Serkis and full cast | Tyndale Audio | |
| Little Dorrit (1857) | Charles Dickens(dramatized by Doug Lucie) | Full cast | BBC Audiobooks America | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1930) | Dashiell Hammett(dramatized by Yuri Rasovsky) | Michael Madsen, Sandra Oh, and Edward Herrmann | Blackstone Audio | |
| The Rivalry (1959) | Norman Corwin | Paul Giamatti, James Gleason, Lily Rabe, David Strathairn, and Shannon Cochran | L.A. Theatre Works | |
| 2011[10] 16th |
Saint Joan (1923) | George Bernard Shaw | Amy Irving, Edward Herrmann, Kristoffer Tabori, and full cast | Blackstone Audio |
| 'Art' (1994) | Yasmina Reza | Bob Balaban, Brian Cox, and Jeff Perry | L.A. Theatre Works | |
| The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) | Oscar Wilde | Emily Bergl, Charles Busch, Neil Dickson, Jill Gascoine, James Marsters, Christopher Neame, and Matthew Wolf | L.A. Theatre Works | |
| The Sunset Limited (2006) | Cormac McCarthy | Austin Pendleton, Ezra Knight, and Tom Stechschulte | Recorded Books | |
| Vengeance (2008) | A. J. Scudiere | Kristoffer Tabori, Stephanie Zimbalist, and Don Leslie | Griffyn Ink | |
| 2012[11][12] 17th |
The Arthur Miller Collection (1944–1994) | Arthur Miller | Full cast | L.A. Theatre Works |
| The Graduate (1967) | Charles Webb, Terry Johnson, and Calder Willingham (adapted by Buck Henry) | Kathleen Turner, Matthew Rhys, and full cast | L.A. Theatre Works | |
| The Mark of Zorro (1919) | Johnston McCulley (adapted by Yuri Rasovsky) | Val Kilmer and full cast | Blackstone Audio | |
| We're Alive | Kc Wayland | Full cast | Blackstone Audio | |
| 2013[13] 18th |
Swordspoint (1989) | Ellen Kushner | Ellen Kushner, Dion Graham, Katherine Kellgren, Robert Fass, Nick Sullivan, Simon Jones, Sam Guncler, and Anne Bobby | SueMedia Productions (for Neil Gaiman Presents/ACX) |
| Die, Snow White! Die, Damn You! (2012) | Yuri Rasovsky | Sandra Oh, Simon Helberg, Kate Burton, and full cast | Blackstone Audio | |
| I, Claudius (2010) | Robert Graves (adapted by Robin Brooks) | Derek Jacobi, Tom Goodman-Hill, and full cast | AudioGO | |
| The Star Angel (2012) | Jerry Robbins | Jerry Robbins and the Colonial Radio Players | Brilliance Audio | |
| Titanium Rain (Series 1) (2008) | Josh Finney and Kat Rocha | Lance Roger Axt, Elizabeth Knowelden, Carrington Macduffie, and full cast | The Audiocomics Company | |
| Trouble on His Wings (1939) | L. Ron Hubbard | Jennifer Aspen, Bob Caso, R. F. Daley, Jim Meskimen, and Matt Scott | Galaxy Press | |
| 2014[14] 19th |
Oliver Twist (1838) | Charles Dickens(adapted by Paul McCusker) | Joe Holgate, Henry Goodman, Lee Boardman, Geoffrey Palmer, Roy Hudd, Finty Williams, and a full cast | Tyndale Audio |
| The Fall of the Kings (2002) | Ellen Kushnerand Delia Sherman | Ellen Kushner et al. | SueMedia Productions (for Neil Gaiman Presents/Audible) | |
| Hollywood Said No! (2013) | Bob Odenkirk and David Cross | Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, and full cast | Hachette Audio | |
| Marvel Civil War (2012) | Stuart Moore | Richard Rohan, Richard Cutting, Tim Getman, James Keegan, Kimberly Gilbert, and full cast | GraphicAudio | |
| Screaming with the Cannibals (2003) | Lee Maynard | Ross Ballard II | Mountain Whispers Audiobooks | |
| The War of the Worlds (1897) | H. G. Wells(adapted by M. J. Elliott) | Colonial Radio Players | Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air | |
| 2015[15] 20th |
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) | Arthur Conan Doyle (adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright) | Geoffrey Arend, Wilson Bethel, Seamus Dever, Sarah Drew, Henri Lubatti, James Marsters, Christopher Neame, Moira Quirk, and Darren Richardson | L.A. Theatre Works |
| Anne Manx and the Blood Chase (2014) | Larry Weiner | Claudia Christian, Moira Kelly, Patricia Tallman, and a full cast | Radio Repertory Company of America | |
| Mistborn: The Final Empire (2006) | Brandon Sanderson | Terence Aselford, Kimberly Gilbert, David Jourdan, and full cast | GraphicAudio | |
| Swords of Riverside (2014) | Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman | Ellen Kushner, Barbara Rosenblat, Katherine Kellgren, Dion Graham, Simon Jones, et al. | SueMedia Productions (for Neil Gaiman/ACX) | |
| Under Drake's Flag (1883) | G. A. Henty (adapted by John Fornof)[16] | Brian Blessed | Heirloom Audio Productions | |
| 2016[17] 21st |
The Jungle Book: The Mowgli Stories (1894) | Rudyard Kipling (adapted by Bev Doyle and Richard Kurti) | Bill Bailey, Richard E. Grant, Colin Salmon, Tim McInnerny, Bernard Cribbins, Celia Imrie, and Martin Shaw | Audible |
| Amok (2007) | Sebastian Fitzek | Full cast | Audible Studios | |
| Christmas Eve, 1914 (2014) | Charles Olivier | Full cast | Audible Studios | |
| The Sleeper and the Spindle (2013) | Neil Gaiman | Julian Rhind-Tutt, Lara Pulver, Niamh Walsh, Adjoa Andoh, Peter Forbes, John Sessions, and Michael Maloney | HarperAudio | |
| The Starling Project (2014) | Jeffery Deaver | Alfred Molina and full cast | Audible | |
| 2017[18] 22nd |
In the Embers (2015) | Brian Priceand Jerry Stearns | Robin Miles, Edwin Strout, Dean Johnson, Jacquie Maddix, and full cast | Great Northern Audio Theatre/Blackstone Audio |
| Alien: Out of the Shadows (2014) | Tim Lebbon(adapted by Dirk Maggs) | Rutger Hauer, Corey Johnson, Matthew Lewis, Kathryn Drysdale, Laurel Lefkow, Andrea Deck, and Mac McDonald | Audible | |
| "Death and the Queen", Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures (2016) | James Goss | David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Alice Krige, Blake Ritson, Beth Chalmers, and Alan Cox | Big Finish Productions | |
| "Only the Monstrous", Doctor Who: The War Doctor (2015) | Nicholas Briggs | John Hurt, Jacqueline Pearce, Carolyn Seymour, and Lucy Briggs-Owen | Big Finish Productions | |
| The Mountaintop (2009) | Katori Hall | Aja Naomi King and Larry Powell | L.A. Theatre Works | |
| 2018 23rd |
Brother Francis: The Barefoot Saint of Assisi (2016) | Paul McCusker | Joseph Timms, Owen Teale, Geoffrey Palmer, and full cast | Augustine Institute |
| Cicero (2018) | David Llewellyn | Samuel Barnett and George Naylor | Big Finish Productions | |
| The Mean (2017) | John Arthur Long | John Arthur Long | Blackstone Publishing | |
| Treasure Island (1882) | Robert Louis Stevenson (adapted by Marty Ross) | Philip Glenister, Daniel Mays, Catherine Tate, Owen Teale, and Gerran Howell | Audible Studios | |
| The Tug of War (2017) | David Rambo | Matthew Arkin, Hugo Armstrong, Seamus Dever, Matthew Floyd Miller, James Morrison, David Selby, Rich Sommer, Josh Stamberg, Nick Toren, John Vickery, and Jules Willcox | L.A. Theatre Works | |
| 2019[19] 24th |
The Martian Invasion of Earth (1897) | H. G. Wells (adapted by Nicholas Briggs) | Richard Armitage and Lucy Briggs-Owen | Big Finish Productions |
| Alien: Sea of Sorrows (2014) | James A. Moore(adapted by Dirk Maggs) | John Chancer, Stockard Channing, Tony Gardner, Lorelei King, Laurel Lefkow, and full cast | Audible Studios | |
| Disgraced (2012) | Ayad Akhtar | Geoffrey Arend, Behzad Dabu, Hari Dhillon, Sameerah Luqmaan-Harris, and Emily Swallow | L.A. Theatre Works | |
| Emma (1815) | Jane Austen (adapted by Anna Lea) | Emma Thompson, Isabella Inchbald, Joanne Froggatt, Joseph Millson, Morgana Robinson, and full cast | Audible Studios | |
| Girls & Boys (2018) | Dennis Kelly | Carey Mulligan | Audible | |
| Steal the Stars (2018) | Mac Rogers | Full cast | Macmillan Audio |
2020s
| Year of Release | Audio Drama | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Audio Drama Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020[20] 25th |
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes | Tony Kushner | Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, Susan Brown, Denise Gough, and full cast | Penguin Random House Audio |
| The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey (2015) | James Lecesne | James Lecesne | Audible Originals | |
| Birthday Suit (2019) | Lauren Blakely | Andi Arndt, Sebastian York, January LaVoy, Julia Whelan, R. C. Bray, Shane East, Joe Arden, Erin Mallon, Dion Graham, Savannah Peachwood, Jason Clarke, and Robin Miles | Lauren Blakely Books | |
| Have a Nice Day (2018) | Billy Crystal and Quinton Peeples | Justin Bartha, Annette Bening, Dick Cavett, Auliʻi Cravalho, Billy Crystal, Rachel Dratch, Darrell Hammond, Christopher Jackson, Kevin Kline, Robin Thede, and full cast | Audible Originals | |
| Puss in Boots: A Musical (2019) | Neil Fishman, Harvey Edelman, and Khristine Hvam | Jim Dale, Mark
Aldrich, Barret Leddy, Nick Sullivan, Brian Holden, Al Fallick, Lisa Livesay, Meredith Inglesby, Lynn Norris, John E. Brady, and Johnny Heller |
Harper Audio | |
| 2021[21] 26th |
Doctor Who: Stranded (Series 1) | Matt Fitton, David K. Barnes, Lisa McMullin, and John Dorney | Paul McGann, Nicola Walker, Hattie Morahan, Rebecca Root, Tom Price, and Tom Baker | Big Finish Productions |
| ATA Girl 2 | Helen Goldwynand Louise Jameson | Cory Chambers, Kate Copeland, Amy Downham, Helen Goldwyn, Holly Jackson Walters, Louise Jameson, Wilf Scolding, and Elinor Lawless | Big Finish Productions | |
| Come Find Me | Erin Mallon | Cynthia Darlow, Jonathan Davis, Caitlin Kelly, Erin Mallon, and Thérèse Plummer | Erin Mallon | |
| The Ernie Pyle Experiment! | Michael Brainard(script ed. Russell McGee) | Michael Brainard, Greta Lind, Kate Braun, Andrew Bowen, Josh Hogan, Tim Grimm, Peter Spellos, and full cast | WFIU Public Radio | |
| Frankenstein: A Stage Adaptation | A. S. Peterson | Jared Reinfeldt, Euriamis Losada, Henry O. Arnold, Kim Bretton, Morgan Davis, Matt Rose, Micah Williams, Brooks Bennett, Austin Olive, and Garris Wimmer | Oasis Audio | |
| 2022 | Sherlock Holmes: The Seamstress of Peckham Rye | Jonathan Barnes | Nicholas Briggs, Richard Earl, Lucy Briggs-Owen, India Fisher, James Joyce, Anjella MacKintosh, Glen McCready, and Mark Elstob | Big Finish Productions |
| Chonburi International Hotel and Butterfly Club | Shakina Nayfack | Shakina Nayfack,
Kate Bornstein, Annie Golden, Telly Leung, Jason Tam, Bianca Leigh, Ivory Aquino, Pooya Mohseni, Samy Figaredo, Angelica Ross, Liz Lark Brown, Ita Segev, and Dana Aliya Levinson |
Audible Originals | |
| The Coldest Case: A Black Book Audio Drama | James Patterson, Aaron Tracy, and Ryan Silbert | Aaron Paul, Krysten Ritter, Nathalie Emmanuel, Beau Bridges, and a full cast | Audible Originals | |
| The Fyodor Dostoevsky BBC Radio Drama Collection | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Roy Marsden, Alex Jennings, Roger Allam, Paul Rhys, Nicholas Boulton, Paul Hilton, David Suchet, Barnaby Kay, and Lia Williams | BBC Audio/ Penguin Random House UK | |
| No-No Boy | Ken Narasaki, from the novel by John Okada | Greg Watanabe, Kurt Kanazawa, Emily Kuroda, John Miyasaki, Ken Narasaki, Sharon Omi, Joy Osmanski, Sab Shimono, and Paul Yen | L.A. Theatre Works |
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