Helen Laser
Awards
-Audie Awards Finalist for "Suspect" by Scott Turow and "Yellowface" by R.F. Kuang
-Finalist for the LA Book Prize Awards for Achievement in Audiobooks for "Yellowface"
-Winner of Audiofile Earphones Awards for "Suspect" by Scott Turow, "Yellowface" by R.F. Kuang, "Birds of Prey" "Don't Forget To Write" by Sara Goodman Confino, "Best Friends" by Shannon Hale, "A Demon's Guide to Wooing a Witch" by Sarah Hawley, "When Among Crows" by Veronica Roth, "Husbands and Lovers" by Beatriz Williams, and "All This And More" by Peng Shepherd
-SOVAS award nominee for "Junior High" and "Busybodies"
-Nominee for the 2023 Voice One Awards for "Forgotten Cottage" by Courtney Ellis.
-Won "Best Actress" at the Two Roads International Film Festival, The Artists Forum, the International Filmmaker Festival of New York, and the Brightside Film Fest for "The Time In Between The Seconds"
-Won The Mela Hudson Award for Best Actress for "The Time In Between The Seconds"
-MarCom Platinum Award for hosting "RedBox ScreenPLAY Live"
-Nominated for a Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship.
-Winner of "Best Ensemble" from the Connecticut Critics Circle for "Indecent" at Playhouse on Park
accolades
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-Featured on Audible's list of "Best Women Narrators"
Featured on Audible's "Best Audiobooks of 2024" List for "The Wedding People," "Know Your Newlywed" and included at #1 on Audible's Narrator Spotlight interviews for 2024
-Featured in an article by The Washington Post praising The 3 Best Audiobooks of the Month for "The Wedding People"
-"The Wedding People" was featured on Vulture as one of the best audiobooks of the month
-Featured on Audible's "Best Audiobooks of 2023" list for "Yellowface" and "Don't Forget To Write"
-Featured on Audiofile Magazine's "Best Audiobooks of 2023" list for "Yellowface"
-RUSA, an division of the American Library Association, chose the audiobook of "Yellowface" for the 2024 RUSA 2024 Listen List for Outstanding Audiobook Narration and Library Journal featured "Yellowface" as one of the Best Audiobooks of 2023
-"Yellowface" was featured as one of Libro.fm’s Top 10 Audiobooks of 2023
-Featured on Audiofile's "Best Audiobooks of 2022" list for "Birds of Prey"
-Featured on Audible's "Best Audiobooks of 2022" list for "Young Rich Widows" and "Space 1969"
-"Yellowface" is an Editor's Pick on Audible, made the "Must Listen" list on Apple Audiobooks, was the June #1 pick for the American Booksellers Association, featured by Time Magazine on their May picks list, was featured on Libro.fm's Most Pre-Ordered Audiobooks for Spring 2023, was one of a select few audiobooks who made it onto the Financial Times “Best Summer Books of 2023” list, Country Living included the audiobook on its list of 27 new audiobooks to listen to in 2023, Amazon has selected it for their top 20 best books of 2023 so far, The WNYC Book Club chose it for their October read, and Lithub included the audiobook in their Best Audiobooks of May 2023 list.
-"Yellowface" was selected by Reese Witherspoon for Reese's Book Club and the narration specifically was featured and lauded on Reese's social media.
-"Yellowface" topped The Wall Street Journal's list of "The 12 Best Audiobooks for Every Reader."
-"Yellowface" hit #4 on the Libro.fm Best-Selling Audiobooks list
-Audiofile's "Behind The Mic" podcast released a glowing full episode review of "Yellowface"
-"The Wedding People" was picked for the Today Show Book Club / Reading with Jenna, and Jenna included it on her list of her favorite audiobooks to-date.
-New York Times pick for "7 Audiobooks to Listen to Now" for "Bad Dolls"
-Featured pick on Vulture's "Best Audiobooks of 2022" for "Bad Dolls"
-"Girls and Their Horses" was featured by Vulture's "8 Great Audiobooks to Listen to This Month" 2023