Emily Pike Stewart
Award-winning Audiobook Creator
- Producer
- Director
- Narrator
- Post-Production
- Audio Originals
Emily Pike Stewart has worked on Grammy and Audie Award-winning audiobooks and has extensive experience across the spoken word industry.
Born and raised in Louisville, KY, in high school Emily began volunteering as audiobook narrator and director at Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (now Learning Ally). She earned a BFA in Drama from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and worked in theater before returning to the world of audiobooks as studio manager at CDM Sound Studios in New York City. There she gained skills in session engineering and post-production and worked as an editor on Grammy Award winner Earth: The Audio Book by Jon Stewart.
Emily later began offering narration and post-production as GoBunny Media, which has since evolved into Empyrean Productions to encompass a full range of audiobook production services as well as development of other media such as theater, podcasting, and apps. She has worked on hundreds of audiobooks including many award-winning projects with authors and narrators such as Dolly Parton, Malala Yousafzai, David Foster Wallace, Nora Roberts, Donald Rumsfeld, Joyce Carol Oates, Kyle Petty, and more.
Emily is Senior Audiobook Producer for Sounds True Publishing and calls New York City home but frequently indulges her wanderlust as host of the podcast The Nomad Narrator, traveling in her mobile recording studio to explore other audiobook narrators’ lives and hometowns across America. When she’s not in a recording session, Emily enjoys laughing with her husband (who as a blind avid reader can always be found with a good audiobook!), singing, gardening, teaching mindfulness meditation, going to the theater, and devouring non-fiction audiobooks like the brain candy they are.
“Emily is the whole package when it comes to audiobooks. Anyone who gets to work with her is lucky to be on her team.”
John marshall media, CEO &
head of audiobook production
“I’ve enjoyed working with Emily for years. She is a narrator with strong natural instincts and an actor’s heart for the craft of storytelling.”
AUDIOFILE GOLDEN VOICE &
AUDIBLE HALL OF FAME NARRATOR
“Emily was the best director I could’ve asked for. We became true friends. I’d never do another audiobook without her.”
Author, speaker, u.s. army veteran
Home Studio
- Booth: Custom built double-wall
- Mic: Neumann TLM-103 or Shure SM78 with Cloudlifter
- DAW: Reaper
- Focusrite Scarlett 2i2
- PC/Windows 10 or Mac
Mobile Studio
- Second Skin Audio 3-layer auto sound treatment system
- Mic: Shure SM78 with Cloudlifter
- DAW: Reaper
- Focusrite Scarlett 2i2
- PC/Windows 10 or Mac
Interested in collaborating?
The Nomad Narrator podcast
Criss-crossing America in search of stories of belonging
Join Emily and the mobile recording studio as they criss-cross America, interviewing your fave audiobook narrators and best-selling authors in the special places they call home. It’s an extravaganza of adventure, community, and a whole lot of audiobook fun!
