Romy
Hooper

VOICE ARTIST &
AUDIOBOOK NARRATOR

You can listen to her commercial voice reel here and Instagram Highlights for voice here

Romy Hooper has been narrating audiobooks for over a decade, and has extensive experience in the world of commercial and gaming voice overs. She works with Blind + Low Vision NZ and has narrated over 100 titles for their members, including popular magazine periodicals such as National Geographic, the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly, the NZ Listener, Cuisine Magazine and more. All of her novels are available for members of Blind + Low Vision. Some titles include: Her Country: Women of Country Music, The Ratline: The Exhalated Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive, Aroha and Wawata by Dr Hinemoa Elder, Daughters of Erebus by Paul Holmes, Hui: A Study of Māori Gatherings, Jacinda Ardern: A New Kind of Leader, Pull No Punches: Memoir of a Political Survivor, Anything that Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Mataatua Wharenui: Te Whare I Hoki Mai, Stuff I Forgot to Tell My Daughter by Michele A’Court, The Writing Life: Twelve New Zealand Authors and many more.

Bella Gummer artist

Amanda Billing Photographer

Romy has her own home studio where she narrates for independent authors on a case by case basis.

She has also completed titles for Audiobooks NZ, New Zealand's only audiobook production company and started their podcast Sound Salad, interviewing authors and those in the literary community with company CEO Theo Gibson. Episodes are available here and on Spotify and Apple podcasts.

She is most proud to have narrated Blindingly Obvious by Minnie Baragwanath, which sought to be the country’s most accessible book, appearing in ebook, audiobook and braille formats.

She is a New Zealand and Australian accent narrator for US based audiobook production companies Deyan Audio and Podium Audio and has just completed the 6 book romantic fiction series A Boss in a Billion by Serenity Woods, available on Audible here.

She is represented by Johnson Laird Management for commercial voice over work, and has many years experience in brand representation. She also voices multiple characters for popular NZ game Path of Exile.

Romy has her own home studio where she narrates for independent authors on a case by case basis. Highlights include Pip McKay’s The Telling Time and Rachel Doré’s A Respectable Veneer, which was released by Manawatu local radio station MPR as an episodic podcast. Read Manawatu Guardian’s article about the project.

Romy also runs voiceover workshops for Equity NZ and at tertiary institutions around the country.

REVIEW QUOTATIONS

“The book was something new and interesting for me because I never read something where an author from another country talks about the characters from my country. It was especially interesting when I heard the narrator in the audiobook pronouncing Croatian words (she did it great!).”

/ Goodreads audiobook review for The Telling Time by Pip McKay