Mark Royse

MARK JASON ROYSE is a stage-trained audiobook narrator & voice actor with 30+ years of professional creative experience. An emerging audiobook actor, Mark booked 16 titles within his first 60 days of auditioning–including a Nobel Prize winner. Born and bred in the Bluegrass, his Kentucky bourbon baritone is warm and clear with a kick. He has a stocked stable of characters & dialects champing at the bit to race. Affable, approachable, but unafraid to go dark places, Mark delivers nuanced, emotional performances. Mark is partial to LGBTQ fiction, fantasy, sci-fi, thrillers, and horror. He is also an excellent choice for medical narration, e-learning, corporate explainers, and other narration that requires a warm, trustworthy, articulate, and educated voice. Outside the booth? Mark is an award-winning creative director, copywriter, and graphic designer with advertising agency experience. He’s also a seasoned non-profit exec skilled in philanthropy and community engagement. Plus, as a published poet, essayist, and short story author, Mark understands storytelling from the inside out. A longtime meditator, Mark has practiced with celebrity Buddhist teachers and anonymous alcoholics. He’s an author ally, a production pro, and a devoted story shepherd. Fun career highlights: > Interned at Circle Rep Theater, New York, on a Joyce Carol Oates play, The Truth-Teller. > Collaborated with 20th Century Fox as a buyer for J. Peterman Company, selling costumes and props from the blockbuster film Titanic, including a red-carpet premiere appearance. > As the University of Kentucky College of Design’s communications director, helped list the Kentucky Bluegrass as a World Monuments Fund endangered landscape.