Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Joniece Abbott-Pratt is an American actor and audiobook narrator. Her narrations have won her 14 Earphones Awards from AudioFile. Along with co-narrators, she also won the 2022 Audie Award for Short Stories or Collections for Blackout.[1][2]

Joniece Abbott-Pratt
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Iowa
Notable awardsAudie Award for Short Stories or Collections (2022)
Website
jonieceabbott-pratt.com

Education and career

Abbott-Pratt was raised in Philadelphia.[3] She earned a bachelor's degree at Clark Atlanta University,[4] and a Master of Fine Arts degree in acting from the University of Iowa.[5][6] While at Iowa she appeared in a 2004 hip-hop adaptation of the Greek tragedy Seven Against Thebes,[7] and in a 2005 production of Suzan-Lori Parks' In the Blood, directed by Tisch Jones,[8]

Abbott-Pratt has performed in numerous regional theater productions,[9][10] as well as on television shows.[5] In 2002, she was a teen actress in Kia Corthron's Breath, Boom in Atlanta.[11] In 2009, she co-starred in Tracey Scott Wilson's The Good Negro in Hartford and New York.[12][13] In 2013 she co-starred in a production of Lydia R. Diamond's Stick Fly in Philadelphia.[14] In 2014 she appeared in Marcus Gardley's The House that Will Not Stand in New Haven.[15] She has appeared in several plays by August Wilson, including Gem of the Ocean with Novella Nelson and Stephen Tyrone Williams in Hartford in 2011,[16] and Seven Guitars in Louisville in 2015.[17] Also in 2015, she co-starred with Keith Randolph Smith in Dominique Morisseau's Sunset Baby,[18] and with Royce Johnson in Katori Hall's The Mountaintop.[19] In 2019 she starred in Too Heavy for Your Pocket, a drama about the Freedom Riders by Jireh Breon Holder, at the George Street Playhouse in New Jersey.[20]

Abbott-Pratt is an adjunct instructor in drama at New York University.[21]

Awards and honors

Abbott-Pratt was named "Best Emerging Actress" in 2003, by the Atlanta Constitution.[22] In 2020, AudioFile included Abbott-Pratt's narration of Jordan Ifueko's Raybearer on their list of the best young adult audiobooks of the year,[23] and in 2021, they included her narration of Ifueko's Redemptor on their list of the best young adult audiobooks of the year.[24]

In 2022, AudioFile and Literary Hub named Abbott-Pratt's narration of Nightcrawling among the best fiction audiobooks of the year.[25][26]

Awards for Abbott-Pratt's work
Year Title Award Result Ref.
2019 The Beginning of Everything Earphones Award Winner [27]
2020 Grown Earphones Award Winner [28]
The Ministry for the Future Earphones Award Winner [29][30]
Raybearer Earphones Award Winner [31]
2021 For All Time Earphones Award Winner [32]
Raybearer Audie Award for Fantasy Finalist [33][34]
Redemptor Earphones Award Winner [35]
Revival Season Earphones Award Winner [36]
Together We Will Go Earphones Award Winner [37]
2022 Blackout Audie Award for Short Stories or Collections Winner [1][2]
Bloodmarked: The Legendborn Cycle Earphones Award Winner [38]
Four Hundred Souls Audie Award for Multi-Voiced Performance Finalist [1][39]
How It Ends: A Novella Audie Award for Short Stories or Collections Finalist [1][39]
How It Ends: A Novella ITW Award for Best Audiobook Finalist [40]
Nightcrawling Earphones Award Winner [41]
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs Earphones Award Winner [42]
Whiteout Earphones Award Winner [43]
2023 Love Radio Audie Award for Young Adult Title Finalist [44][45]
Nightcrawling Audie Award for Best Female Narrator Finalist [44][45]
The Sex Lives of African Women Audie Award for Nonfiction Finalist [44][45]
The New Earth Earphones Award Winner [46]
Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophesy Earphones Award Winner [47]

Selected narrations
Books narrated by Abbott-Pratt
Year Title Author Other narrator(s) Ref.
2019 The Beginning of Everything Kristen Ashley Liz Thompson, Dina Pearlman, Stella Bloom, Esther Wane, Gemma Dawson, Robin Miles, Clara Francesca, Lance Greenfield, Jakobi Diem, Ralph Lister, John Hartley, Rupert Channing, and Sarah Coomes [27]
2019 Lady Tigers in the Concrete Jungle: How Softball and Sisterhood Saved Lives in the South Bronx Dibs Baer
Like Sisters on the Homefront Rita Williams-Garcia
One Night in Georgia Celeste O. Norfleet
2020 All the Things We Never Knew Liara Tamani Preston Butler III
Burn Patrick Ness
Grown Tiffany D. Jackson [28]
Legendborn Tracy Deonn
The Ministry for the Future Kim Stanley Robinson Jennifer Fitzgerald, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de Ocampo, Gary Bennett, Raphael Corkhill, Barrie Kreinik, Natasha Soudek, Nikki Massoud, Ines del Castillo, and Vikas Adam
Raybearer Jordan Ifueko
The Office of Historical Corrections Danielle Evans Nicole Lewis, Brittany Pressley, Shayna Small, January LaVoy, Adenrele Ojo, and Janina Edwards
The Wrong Mr. Darcy Evelyn Lozada and Holly Lorincz
2021 Blackout Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon Dion Graham, Imani Parks, Jordan Cobb, Shayna Small, A.J Beckles, and Bahni Turpin
Caul Baby Morgan Jerkins
For All Time Shanna Miles Landon Woodson
How It Ends Rachel Howzell Hall
The Other Black Girl Zakiya Dalila Harris Aja Naomi King, Heather Alicia Simms, and Bahni Turpin
Redemptor Jordan Ifueko [35]
Revival Season Monica West
Together We Will Go J. Michael Straczynski Dan Bittner, Neo Cihi, Michael Crouch, Samantha Desz, Kyla Garcia, Jonathan Todd Ross, Fred Sanders, Tara Sands, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Kevin R. Free, and Aden Hakimi
2022 Because Claudette Tracey Baptiste
Blood Like Fate Liselle Sambury
Bloodmarked: The Legendborn Cycle Tracy Deonn
Love Radio Ebony LaDelle JaQwan J. Kelly
Nightcrawling Leila Mottley [41]
Quantum Girl Theory Erin Kate Ryan Saskia Maarleveld and P. J. Ochlan
The Sex Lives of African Women Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah Iesha Nyree, Adenrele Ojo, Deanna Anthony, Stephanie Weeks, Joy Hooper, Lisa Reneé Pitts, Karen Murray, Janina Edwards, M. J. Brown, and Karla Mosley
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs Sidik Fofana Nile Bullock, Sidik Fofana, Dominic Hoffman, DePre Owens, André Santana, Bahni Turpin, and Jade Wheeler
Whiteout Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon Danielle Shemaiah, Nic Stone, Shayna Small, Bahni Turpin, Alaska Jackson, Kevin R. Free, James Fouhey, and Korey Jackson
Yonder Jabari Asim Lamarr Gulley, JD Jackson, Adam Lazarre-White, Imani Jade Powers, and Janina Edwards
2023 Blood Debts Terry J. Benton-Walker Zeno Robinson, Bahni Turpin, and Torian Brackett
The Davenports Krystal Marquis
Lone Women Victor LaValle
The New Earth Jess Row Jim Meskimen, Jaime Lamchick, Jason Culp, Robin Miles, Ron Butler, Inés del Castillo, Gary Tiedemann, Sheldon Romero, Josh Bloomberg, Aylam Orian, and Vaneh Assadourian
Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophesy Angie Thomas

Filmography
Abbott-Pratt's filmography[48]
Year Title Media Role Notes
2007 Why Did I Get Married? Film College Student #3
2013 Grand Theft Auto V Video game Local Population (voice)
2015 American Odyssey TV Margaret 1 episode
2015 Orange Is the New Black TV Ultrasound technician 1 episode
2015 Show Me A Hero TV Woman 2 episodes
2016 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit TV
  • Latanya Franks
  • Marisa
 2 episodes
2017 Blindspot TV Charly Evon 1 episode
2018 Instinct TV Ashley 1 episode
2016-2018 Luke Cage TV Etta Lucas 2 episodes
2019 The Good Fight TV Monique Cromley 1 episode
2020 FBI: Most Wanted TV Michelle Carter 1 episode
2020 The Annex TV Joniece
2021 Evil TV Ashley 1 episode
2022 Dynasty TV Nurse Julia 1 episode

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