Charlayne Woodard has narrated 3 audiobooks on Listento.it by 2 authors. The most-rated is Crumbs from the Table of Joy.
Neat
Summary
In Neat, writer/performer Charlayne Woodard shares her memories of growing up black in America in the '60s and '70s. The play focuses around the life of Woodard's Aunt Beneatha, Neat, who was mistakenly fed camphor oil as a baby, resulting in permanent brain damage. Alternating between Neat's home in Savannah, GA and Albany, NY, where Woodard was raised, stories of family and of time spent with Neat are weaved together with touching results.
(P)2000 L.A. Theatre Works
Fabulation or The Re-education of Undine
Summary
Knocked-up and seriously broke, a successful publicist is plunged into a topsy-turvy world of welfare mothers and drug addicts, and forced to confront the family she left behind. Fabulation is a darkly comic rags-to-riches-to-rags tale of falling down and reaching up to find the goodness within.Starring (in alphabetical order):Daniel Breaker as Flow, Dealer, EnsembleSaidah Arrika Ekulona as Allison, Mother, EnsembleJon Matthews as Accountant, Addict #1, EnsembleGary Perez as Herve, Guy, EnsembleMelle Powers as Stephie, Counselor, Rosa, EnsembleMyra Lucretia Taylor as Grandma/EnsembleJohn Wesley as Yoruba Priest, Father, EnsembeCharlayne Woodard as Undine
(P)2005 L.A. Theatre Works. All Rights Reserved.
Crumbs from the Table of Joy
Summary
From the pen of the winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama! The Crump family is adrift and in trouble. Widowed Godfrey is under the spell of Sweet Father Divine, while his teen daughters, Ernestine and Ermina, immerse themselves in the illusions of Hollywood to escape racial prejudice. But things change quickly when free-spirited Aunt Lily shows up: Godfrey remarries a white woman, Ermina discovers boys, and Ernestine is torn between Communism and bebop! Playwright Lynn Nottage received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner for her play Ruined. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring (in alphabetical order): Deidrie Henry as Ernestine Crump; Russell Hornsby as Godfrey Crump; Tinashe Kajese as Ermina Crump; Kate Steele as Gerte; and Charlayne Woodard as Lily Ann Green. Directed by Seret Scott. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, in December 2009.
©2011 L.A. Theatre Works (P)2011 L.A. Theatre Works