Jennifer Mendenhall

Jennifer Mendenhall (born February 7, 1960), commonly known by the alias Kate Reading, is an American actress and audiobook narrator. She has won 6 Audie Awards and 46 Earphone Awards.

Personal life

Mendenhall was born on February 7, 1960, in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents moved to England when she was a baby. In 1978, she returned to the United States to attend the University of Virginia. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in French and Drama in 1983.

Mendenhall married Michael Kramer on October 24, 1992.[citation needed] They currently live in the Washington, D.C., area with their two children.

Awards and honors

Awards

Year Title Award Result Ref.
1999 Summer Sisters (1998) by Judy Blume Audie Award for Fiction Finalist
2004 Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell Audie Award for Best Female Narrator Finalist
2006 Fairy Tales (1835) by Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Tina Nunnally Audie Award for Short Stories or Collections Finalist
2007 The Painted Veil (1925) by W. Somerset Maugham Audie Award for Literary Fiction or Classics Finalist
2010 Bellwether (1996) by Connie Willis Audie Award for Science Fiction Winner
2010 The Gathering Storm (2009) by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson Audie Award for Science Fiction Finalist
2011 Among the Missing (2011) by Morag Joss Earphone Award Winner
2011 The Book of Spies by Gayle Lynds Audie Award for Thriller or Suspense Finalist
2012 1222 (2011) by Anne Holt Earphone Award Winner
2012 The Boy in the Snow (2012) by M.J. McGrath Earphone Award Winner
2012 The Thirteen Hallows (2011) by Michael Scott and Colette Freedman Earphone Award Winner
2012 Trapeze (2012) by Simon Mawer Earphone Award Winner
2013 Breasts by Florence Williams Audie Award for Nonfiction Winner
2013 The Last Runaway (2013) by Tracy Chevalier Earphone Award Winner
2013 A Memory of Light (2013) by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson Earphone Award Winner
2014 Words of Radiance (2014) by Brandon Sanderson Earphone Award Winner
2015 My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead Audie Award for Autobiography or Memoir Winner
2015 The Siege Winter (2015) by Ariana Franklin and Samantha Norman Earphone Award Winner
2015 Words of Radiance (2014) Audie Award for Fantasy Winner
2016 The Story of Egypt: The Civilization That Shaped the World (2016) by Joann Fletcher Earphone Award Winner
2016 A Study in Scarlet Women (2016) by Sherry Thomas Earphone Award Winner
2016 The Velvet Hours (2016) by Alyson Richman Earphone Award Winner
2017 A Conspiracy in Belgravia (2017) by Sherry Thomas Earphone Award Winner
2017 A Duke in Shining Armor: Difficult Dukes (2017) by Loretta Chase Earphone Award Winner
2017 The Glass Town Game (2017) by Catherynne M. Valente Earphone Award Winner
2018 The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter (2017) by Theodora Goss Audie Award for Fantasy Winner
2018 The Tangled Lands (2010) by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell Earphone Award Winner
2018 When a Duke Loves a Woman (2018) by Lorraine Heath Earphone Award Winner
2019 The Art of Theft (2019) by Sherry Thomas Earphone Award Winner
2019 At the End of the Century (2019) by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Earphone Award Winner
2020 Death and the Maiden (2020) by Samantha Norman and Ariana Franklin Earphone Award Winner
2019 European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman by Theodora Goss Audie Award for Fantasy Finalist
2020 Midnight Train to Prague (2020) by Carol Windley Earphone Award Winner
2020 The Prophet (1923) by Kahlil Gibran Earphone Award Winner
2020 Rhythm of War (2020) by Brandon Sanderson Earphone Award Winner
2020 Ten Things I Hate About the Duke (2020) by Loretta Chase Earphone Award Winner
2022 Rhythm of War (2020) by Brandon Sanderson Audie Award for Fantasy Winner
2021 The Souvenir Museum (2021) by Elizabeth McCracken Earphone Award Winner

"Best of" lists

Year Title Award Ref.
2008 Captain's Fury AudioFile Best Fantasy of the Year
2009 Cursor's Fury AudioFile Best Fantasy of the Year
2010 Bright-Sided   AudioFile Best Contemporary Culture of the Year
2012 Bling Goddess AudioFile Best Mystery & Suspense of the Year
2012 Mischief of the Mistletoe by Lauren Willig RUSA Listen List
2013 The Garden Intrigue (2013) by Lauren Willig RUSA Listen List
2015 Gretel and the Case of the Missing Frog Prints  AudioFile Best Mystery & Suspense of the Year
2015 Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase RUSA Listen List
2016 And Only to Deceive by Tasha Alexander RUSA Listen List
2017 A Conspiracy in Belgravia  AudioFile Best Mystery & Suspense of the Year

Stage performances

Performances listed alphabetically by show
Show Role Company
After the Fall Holga Theater J
Andy and the Shadows Raya Theater J
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches Ethel Rosenberg, Rabbi Chemelwitz, Hannah Pitt Forum Theatre
Angels in America: Perestroika Ethel Rosenberg, Hannah Pitt Forum Theatre
Apples from the Desert Victoria Theater J
A Beautiful View Lane Studio Theatre
Cherokee Janine Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Circle Mirror Transformation Marty Studio Theatre
Clybourne Park Bev/Kathy Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
The Cripple of Inishmaan Kate Osbourne SCENA Theatre
Dead Man's Cell Phone Other Woman Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Grace Sara Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Homebody/Kabul Mahala Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Imagining Madoff Secretary Theater J
Legacy of Light Wet Nurse, Olivia Arena Stage
Lenny & Lou Julie Riggio Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Measure for Pleasure Lady Vanity Lustforth Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
The New Electric Ballroom Ada Studio Theatre
Pluto Elizabeth Miller Forum Theatre
The Rocky Horror Show Magenta Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1991 The Arc Sally
1992 Literary Visions Actor 1 episode: Artful Resonance: Theme in Poetry
1994 Homicide: Life on the Street Kerry Weston 1 episode: See No Evil
1994 Serial Mom Reporter
1997 Frontline Self / Narration 1 episode: The Lost American
2013 My Synthesized Life Phone operator 1 episode: Freak

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