Audiobook coaching for narrators who refuse to sound like AI
Whether you're an aspiring narrator, a professional looking to level up, or an author who wants to narrate your own work, learn the acting techniques that let you be fully present with the text.
After 300+ audiobooks, an Odyssey Award, and multiple Earphones Awards, I know what it takes to create honest, lived-in narration that rings true. And I know it isn't about sounding perfect. It's about being present.
Sessions
One-on-one coaching
$150 / hourPersonalized sessions built around what you're actually working on:
- Text analysis and character development
- Mic technique and studio setup
- Genre-specific coaching, especially horror, thriller, and mystery
- Audition preparation
- Demo feedback
- Working through a specific challenge that's been getting in your way
Just want to ask some questions? I'm happy to answer anything I can, and to find the answer if I don't know it.
Audition tune-up
$75 / 30 minA quick half-hour session to polish that audition before you send it off.
Matt is also a resident coach at Leonardo Audio. See his group workshops here.
Meet your coach
Matt Godfrey is an Odyssey and Earphones Award-winning, Audie-nominated audiobook narrator with over 300 titles to his credit, including works by Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, and Ray Bradbury. With a theater degree and nine years as a working actor — commercials for Old Navy, Chevy, Progresso, and Call of Duty; TV and film from Netflix and Roadside Attractions; theatre with Center Theatre Group and Red Mountain Theatre — he brings both classical training and real-world professional experience to his coaching.
Based in Birmingham, Alabama, Matt works with clients in person and worldwide via Zoom, teaching the Prep + Presence approach that helps performers create work that's unmistakably human.