January LaVoy
January is a storyteller across many mediums, with a career that spans theater, television, audio, and literature.
A human voice
sharing very human stories.
Photo credit: Chase Anderson
Accolades
Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Lead Performer, Fires in the Mirror
Gracie Award, Audiobook Narration, Fiction, Good Dirt
Audible Narrator Hall of Fame
Audio Publishers Association Hall of Fame
AudioFile Magazine Golden Voice
10x Audie Award Winner
Narrator of the Year, Publishers Weekly
Grammy Nomination, Charlotte’s Web, Penguin Random House Audio
Narration
One of the industry’s most sought after narrators, January has voiced over 600 audiobooks. In 2026, she was inducted into both the Audio Publishers Association Hall of Fame and the Audible Narrator Hall of Fame, and won the prestigious Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media, for her narration of Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson. She has narrated books by some of the most widely read authors in the world, including James Patterson, Nora Roberts, and John Grisham, as well as works by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, Caldecott and Newbery medalist Jason Reynolds, and Pulitzer Prize nominee Maya Angelou. She has received ten Audie Awards, been named Publishers Weekly Narrator of the Year, is an AudioFile Golden Voice, and shares a Grammy nomination with Meryl Streep and the cast of the Charlotte’s Web audiobook. Her voice work has been highlighted in articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Slate. She has been heard by millions of podcast listeners as the voice of The Daily's Sunday Read, and voiced top-tier journalistic pieces for publications including The New Yorker, The Atlantic and ProPublica. She is married to her favorite author and audiobook narrator, Will Damron.
Photo credit: Ryan Maxwell
Stage and Television
The recipient of the 2023 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Performer (Fires in the Mirror, Theatre J) January has appeared on Broadway in Lucy Prebble’s ENRON, and Off-Broadway in Wings (Second Stage), Coraline (MCC), Measure for Measure (TFANA), Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie (Ars Nova, Lucille Lortel Nomination) Two Trains Running, Home, Funnyhouse of a Negro, and Wakey, Wakey (Signature Theatre). Selected regional theatre credits include: Fires in the Mirror (Theatrical Outfit), Mattie Campbell in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Mark Taper Forum, directed by Phylicia Rashad), Kate in Good People (Pittsburgh Public Theatre), Isabella in Measure for Measure (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, Dawn in Lobby Hero, and Portia in The Merchant of Venice (Denver Center Theatre Company) and the world premiere of Native Guard by United States Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey (Alliance Theatre). She has been seen on television in “Blue Bloods”, “N0S4A2”, “Elementary”, and “Law & Order” (classic, CI and SVU), and played the role of Noelle Ortiz-Stubbs on “One Life to Live” from 2007-2011.