Joniece Abbott-Pratt is an American actress and audiobook narrator, whose 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.
Education and career Abbott-Pratt was raised in Philadelphia. She earned a bachelor's degree at Clark Atlanta University,"Joniece Abbott-Pratt" Backstage. and a Master of Fine Arts degree in acting from the University of Iowa. While at Iowa she appeared in a 2004 hip-hop adaptation of the Greek tragedy Seven Against Thebes, and in a 2005 production of Suzan-Lori Parks' In the Blood, directed by Tisch Jones.
Abbott-Pratt has performed in numerous regional theater productions, as well as on television shows. In 2002, she was a teen actress in Kia Corthron's Breath, Boom in Atlanta. In 2009, she co-starred in Tracey Scott Wilson's The Good Negro in Hartford and New York.Reviews of The Good Negro In 2013 she co-starred in a production of Lydia R. Diamond's Stick Fly in Philadelphia. In 2014 she appeared in Marcus Gardley's The House that Will Not Stand in New Haven. 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, and Seven Guitars in Louisville in 2015. Also in 2015, she co-starred with Keith Randolph Smith in Dominique Morisseau's Sunset Baby, and with Royce Johnson in Katori Hall's The Mountaintop. 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.
Abbott-Pratt is an adjunct instructor in drama at New York University.
Awards and honors Abbott-Pratt was named "Best Emerging Actress" in 2003, by the Atlanta Constitution. 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, and in 2021, they included her narration of Ifueko's Redemptor on their list of the best young adult audiobooks of the year.
In 2022, AudioFile and Literary Hub named Abbott-Pratt's narration of Nightcrawling among the best fiction audiobooks of the year. +Awards for Abbott-Pratt's workYearTitleAwardResultRef.2019Earphones AwardWinner2020GrownEarphones AwardWinnerEarphones AwardWinnerRaybearerEarphones AwardWinner2021For All TimeEarphones AwardWinnerLegendbornAmazing Audiobooks for Young AdultsTop 10RaybearerAmazing Audiobooks for Young AdultsTop 10Audie Award for FantasyFinalistEarphones AwardWinnerRevival SeasonEarphones AwardWinnerTogether We Will GoEarphones AwardWinner2022Blackout Audie Award for Short Stories or CollectionsWinnerBloodmarkedEarphones AwardWinnerFour Hundred SoulsAudie Award for Multi-Voiced PerformanceFinalistHow It EndsAudie Award for Short Stories or CollectionsFinalistITW Award for Best AudiobookFinalistNightcrawlingEarphones AwardWinnerOff The RecordAmazing Audiobooks for Young AdultsSelectionStories from the Tenants DownstairsEarphones AwardWinnerWhiteoutEarphones AwardWinner2023Love RadioAudie Award for Young Adult TitleFinalistNightcrawlingAudie Award for Best Female NarratorFinalistAudie Award for NonfictionFinalistEarphones AwardWinnerNic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor ProphesyEarphones AwardWinner2024One BloodAudie Award for FictionFinalist
Narrations +Books narrated by Abbott-PrattYearTitleAuthorOther narrator(s)Ref.2019, Dina Pearlman, Stella Bloom, Esther Wane, Gemma Dawson, Robin Miles, Clara Francesca, Lance Greenfield, Jakobi Diem, Ralph Lister, John Hartley, Rupert Channing, and Sarah Coomes2019Lady Tigers in the Concrete Jungle: How Softball and Sisterhood Saved Lives in the South BronxLike Sisters on the HomefrontOne Night in Georgia2020All the Things We Never KnewBurnGrownLegendborn, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de Ocampo, Gary Bennett, Raphael Corkhill, Barrie Kreinik, Natasha Soudek, Nikki Massoud, Ines del Castillo, and Vikas AdamRaybearer, Brittany Pressley, Shayna Small, January LaVoy, Adenrele Ojo, and Janina Edwards and Holly Lorincz2021Blackout, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon, Imani Parks, Jordan Cobb, Shayna Small, A.J Beckles, and Bahni TurpinCaul BabyFor All TimeHow It Ends, Heather Alicia Simms, and Bahni TurpinRedemptorRevival SeasonTogether We Will Go, Neo Cihi, Michael Crouch, Samantha Desz, Kyla Garcia, Jonathan Todd Ross, Fred Sanders, Tara Sands, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Kevin R. Free, and Aden Hakimi2022Because ClaudetteBlood Like FateBloodmarkedLove RadioNightcrawlingQuantum Girl Theory and P. J. Ochlan, Adenrele Ojo, Deanna Anthony, Stephanie Weeks, Joy Hooper, Lisa Reneé Pitts, Karen Murray, Janina Edwards, M. J. Brown, and Karla MosleyStories from the Tenants Downstairs, Sidik Fofana, Dominic Hoffman, DePre Owens, André Santana, Bahni Turpin, and Jade WheelerWhiteout, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon, Nic Stone, Shayna Small, Bahni Turpin, Alaska Jackson, Kevin R. Free, James Fouhey, and Korey JacksonYonder, JD Jackson, Adam Lazarre-White, Imani Jade Powers, and Janina Edwards2023Blood Debts, Bahni Turpin, and Torian Brackett, Michael Crouch, and Ruffin Prentiss IIILike, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English, Keylor Leigh, Andrew Eiden, Christopher Ryan Grant, Ellen Archer, Eileen Stevens, and Nicky EndresLone Women, Jaime Lamchick, Jason Culp, Robin Miles, Ron Butler, Inés del Castillo, Gary Tiedemann, Sheldon Romero, Josh Bloomberg, Aylam Orian, and Vaneh AssadourianNic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophesy
Filmography +Abbott-Pratt's filmographyYearTitleMediaRoleNotes2007Why Did I Get Married? FilmCollege Student #32013Grand Theft Auto VVideo gameLocal Population (voice)2015American OdysseyTVMargaret1 episode2015Orange Is the New BlackTVUltrasound technician1 episode2015Show Me A HeroTVWoman 2 episodes2016Law & Order: Special Victims UnitTV Latanya Franks Marisa2 episodes2017BlindspotTVCharly Evon1 episode2018InstinctTVAshley1 episode2016-2018Luke CageTVEtta Lucas2 episodes2019TVMonique Cromley1 episode2020FBI: Most WantedTVMichelle Carter1 episode2020TVJoniece2021EvilTVAshley1 episode2022DynastyTVNurse Julia1 episode
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