Memoirist, voice actor to speak at SUNY Adirondack

QUEENSBURY, New York (Feb. 17, 2025) — SUNY Adirondack’s Writers Project series continues with a discussion with Marni Penning at 12:40 p.m. Monday, Feb. 24, in the Visual Arts Gallery in Dearlove Hall.

Penning is a memoirist, audio book narrator and actor with a decades-long successful stage and film career. She began acting onstage at age 8, and has performed in 54 productions of 23 of Shakespeare's plays. She is co-founder of Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, which is in its 30th year.

Her memoir, “Nobody Told Me: A Memoir,” deals with the challenges of a neuro-atypical ADHD sufferer. She has performed on stages all over the United States, England and Scotland. She records audiobooks in her home studio, with more than 260 titles available on Audible, more than 500 large-cast recordings for Graphic Audio (including the “ACOTAR,” “Fourth Wing” and “Crescent City” series), and more than 600 articles narrated for the Curio app.

In 2024, Penning received medals for Audie Awards nominations for Best Fiction Narrator for "Johannah Porter Is Not Sorry” by Sarah Read and Best Audio Drama for “Red Rising: Sons of Ares” by Pearce Brown.

The series continues with the following events, each held at 12:40 p.m. in the Visual Arts Gallery:

• Monday, March 17: Poet David Graham;
• Monday, April 7: Fantasy novelist Philip Chase;
• Monday, April 21: Author and journalist Megan Mayhew-Bergman;
• Wednesday, April 30: SUNY Adirondack Creative Writing majors will read from their works
   

All Writers Project events are free and open to the public. They are also aired live via Zoom and can be watched at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/2561576791.