Biography

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2010 AUDIE Award Winner for the Spanish narration of "Enrique's Journey" by Pulitzer Prize winner Sonia Nazario.

 

Award winning actress and narrator, Adriana Sananes, was born in South America, lived 5 years in Spain and considers herself a New Yorker at heart.

 

Adriana is in high demand as a voice over actress and narrator. She narrated the documentary Children of Fate, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the SUNDANCE Film Festival and nominated for an ACADEMY AWARD and has recorded over 70 bestsellers for Recorded Books, Scholastic, MacMillan, Bantam, and Highbridge Audio, including Loving Che, The Dark Bride, My Sister Frida, The Dirty Girls Social Club, the GRAMMY nominated Brown Bear Series by Eric Carle and the AUDIE nominated How the García Girls Lost their Accent by Julia Álvarez.

 

Adriana's voice has been heard in PBS, UNICEF, Lifetime, NBC Nightly News, the United Nations,  American Foundation for the Blind, Showtime, HBO Real Sports, ABC News Interactive, Berlitz, Living Language, radio and TV commercials, documentaries, industrials and voice messaging systems.

 

She was a leading actress at New York´s Repertorio Español for ten years, specializing in the Golden Age of Spain classics and the heroines of the major Lorca plays in addition to many contemporary plays. While there, she won various awards, including, Best Actress in the XIII International Festival at Chamizal, El Paso, for her performance of Tisbea in The Trickster of Seville, an ACE award for Eduardo Machado's Revoltillo, and a Theatre Fellowship Grant from The Princess Grace Foundation.

 

More recent theatre credits include Bernarda by Oscar Colón at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre (HOLA award) and Cervantes' Entremeses with NY's Teatro Círculo, which traveled to Paris to the Don Quixote International Theatre Festival. 

 

Her early training was as a dancer and musician. She obtained a BA in music from Manhattan School of Music and studied ballet at American Ballet Theatre School.

 

Co-founded the children's theatre company The Kangaroo Garden, 1993-2004.

 

Member of AFTRA, SAG and AEA.