# Joniece Abbott-Pratt

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, 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. 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 work :
| Year | Title | Award | Result |
| 2019 | The Beginning of Everything | Earphones Award | Winner |
| 2020 | Grown | Earphones Award | Winner |
| 2020 | The Ministry for the Future | Earphones Award | Winner |
| 2020 | Raybearer | Earphones Award | Winner |
| 2021 | For All Time | Earphones Award | Winner |
| 2021 | Legendborn | Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults | Top 10 |
| 2021 | Raybearer | Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults | Top 10 |
| 2021 | Raybearer | Audie Award for Fantasy | Finalist |
| 2021 | Raybearer | Earphones Award | Winner |
| 2021 | Revival Season | Earphones Award | Winner |
| 2021 | Together We Will Go | Earphones Award | Winner |
| 2022 | Blackout | Audie Award for Short Stories or Collections | Winner |
| 2022 | Bloodmarked | Earphones Award | Winner |
| 2022 | Four Hundred Souls | Audie Award for Multi-Voiced Performance | Finalist |
| 2022 | How It Ends | Audie Award for Short Stories or Collections | Finalist |
| 2022 | How It Ends | ITW Award for Best Audiobook | Finalist |
| 2022 | Nightcrawling | Earphones Award | Winner |
| 2022 | Off The Record | Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults | Selection |
| 2022 | Stories from the Tenants Downstairs | Earphones Award | Winner |
| 2022 | Whiteout | Earphones Award | Winner |
| 2023 | Love Radio | Audie Award for Young Adult Title | Finalist |
| 2023 | Nightcrawling | Audie Award for Best Female Narrator | Finalist |
| 2023 | The Sex Lives of African Women | Audie Award for Nonfiction | Finalist |
| 2023 | The New Earth | Earphones Award | Winner |
| 2023 | Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophesy | Earphones Award | Winner |
| 2024 | One Blood | Audie Award for Fiction | Finalist |

## Narrations

Books narrated by Abbott-Pratt :
| Year | Title | Author | Other narrator(s) |
| 2019 | The Beginning of Everything | Kristen Ashley | Liz Thompson, Dina Pearlman, Stella Bloom, Esther Wane, Gemma Dawson, Robin Miles, Clara Francesca, Lance Greenfield, Jakobi Diem, Ralph Lister, John Hartley, Rupert Channing, and Sarah Coomes |
| 2019 | Lady Tigers in the Concrete Jungle: How Softball and Sisterhood Saved Lives in the South Bronx | Dibs Baer | |
| 2019 | Like Sisters on the Homefront | Rita Williams-Garcia | |
| 2019 | One Night in Georgia | Celeste O. Norfleet | |
| 2020 | All the Things We Never Knew | Liara Tamani | Preston Butler III |
| 2020 | Burn | Patrick Ness | |
| 2020 | Grown | Tiffany D. Jackson | |
| 2020 | Legendborn | Tracy Deonn | |
| 2020 | The Ministry for the Future | Kim Stanley Robinson | Jennifer Fitzgerald, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de Ocampo, Gary Bennett, Raphael Corkhill, Barrie Kreinik, Natasha Soudek, Nikki Massoud, Ines del Castillo, and Vikas Adam |
| 2020 | Raybearer | Jordan Ifueko | |
| 2020 | The Office of Historical Corrections | Danielle Evans | Nicole Lewis, Brittany Pressley, Shayna Small, January LaVoy, Adenrele Ojo, and Janina Edwards |
| 2020 | The Wrong Mr. Darcy | Evelyn Lozada and Holly Lorincz | |
| 2021 | Blackout | Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon | Dion Graham, Imani Parks, Jordan Cobb, Shayna Small, A.J Beckles, and Bahni Turpin |
| 2021 | Caul Baby | Morgan Jerkins | |
| 2021 | For All Time | Shanna Miles | Landon Woodson |
| 2021 | How It Ends | Rachel Howzell Hall | |
| 2021 | The Other Black Girl | Zakiya Dalila Harris | Aja Naomi King, Heather Alicia Simms, and Bahni Turpin |
| 2021 | Redemptor | Jordan Ifueko | |
| 2021 | Revival Season | Monica West | |
| 2021 | Together We Will Go | J. Michael Straczynski | Dan Bittner, Neo Cihi, Michael Crouch, Samantha Desz, Kyla Garcia, Jonathan Todd Ross, Fred Sanders, Tara Sands, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Kevin R. Free, and Aden Hakimi |
| 2022 | Because Claudette | Tracey Baptiste | |
| 2022 | Blood Like Fate | Liselle Sambury | |
| 2022 | Bloodmarked | Tracy Deonn | |
| 2022 | Love Radio | Ebony LaDelle | JaQwan J. Kelly |
| 2022 | Nightcrawling | Leila Mottley | |
| 2022 | Quantum Girl Theory | Erin Kate Ryan | Saskia Maarleveld and P. J. Ochlan |
| 2022 | The Sex Lives of African Women | Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah | Iesha Nyree, Adenrele Ojo, Deanna Anthony, Stephanie Weeks, Joy Hooper, Lisa Reneé Pitts, Karen Murray, Janina Edwards, M. J. Brown, and Karla Mosley |
| 2022 | Stories from the Tenants Downstairs | Sidik Fofana | Nile Bullock, Sidik Fofana, Dominic Hoffman, DePre Owens, André Santana, Bahni Turpin, and Jade Wheeler |
| 2022 | Whiteout | Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon | Danielle Shemaiah, Nic Stone, Shayna Small, Bahni Turpin, Alaska Jackson, Kevin R. Free, James Fouhey, and Korey Jackson |
| 2022 | Yonder | Jabari Asim | Lamarr Gulley, JD Jackson, Adam Lazarre-White, Imani Jade Powers, and Janina Edwards |
| 2023 | Blood Debts | Terry J. Benton-Walker | Zeno Robinson, Bahni Turpin, and Torian Brackett |
| 2023 | The Davenports | Krystal Marquis | |
| 2023 | The House is on Fire | Rachel Beanland | Andi Arndt, Michael Crouch, and Ruffin Prentiss III |
| 2023 | Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English | Valerie Fridland | Valerie Fridland, Keylor Leigh, Andrew Eiden, Christopher Ryan Grant, Ellen Archer, Eileen Stevens, and Nicky Endres |
| 2023 | Lone Women | Victor LaValle | |
| 2023 | The New Earth | Jess Row | Jim Meskimen, Jaime Lamchick, Jason Culp, Robin Miles, Ron Butler, Inés del Castillo, Gary Tiedemann, Sheldon Romero, Josh Bloomberg, Aylam Orian, and Vaneh Assadourian |
| 2023 | Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophesy | Angie Thomas | |

## Filmography

Abbott-Pratt's filmography :
| Year | Title | Media | Role | Notes |
| 2007 | Why Did I Get Married? | Film | College Student #3 |
| 2013 | Grand Theft Auto V | Video game | Local Population (voice) | |
| 2015 | American Odyssey | TV | Margaret | 1 episode |
| 2015 | Orange Is the New Black | TV | Ultrasound technician | 1 episode |
| 2015 | Show Me A Hero | TV | Woman | 2 episodes |
| 2016 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | TV | Latanya Franks Marisa | 2 episodes |
| 2017 | Blindspot | TV | Charly Evon | 1 episode |
| 2018 | Instinct | TV | Ashley | 1 episode |
| 2016-2018 | Luke Cage | TV | Etta Lucas | 2 episodes |
| 2019 | The Good Fight | TV | Monique Cromley | 1 episode |
| 2020 | FBI: Most Wanted | TV | Michelle Carter | 1 episode |
| 2020 | The Annex | TV | Joniece | |
| 2021 | Evil | TV | Ashley | 1 episode |
| 2022 | Dynasty | TV | Nurse Julia | 1 episode |