as of 4/12/2025*
Additional guest coaches and publisher representatives will be added as enrollment grows with the goal of keeping the ratio of coaches to narrators at an optimal level for personal engagement.
We are excited that our publisher representatives will also be working with people individually as one-on-one coaches.
The Audiobooks at Sea 2026 Crew
Dion Graham, Guest Coach
Helen Lloyd, Guest Coach
Ray Porter, Guest Coach
Zane Birdwell, Guest Coach
Senior Producer, John Marshall Media
Sophie Stango, Guest Coach
Senior Associate Producer,
Simon and Schuster
Steve Wagner, Guest Coach
Senior Producer, Macmillan Audio
Sean Pratt, Guest Coach
seanprattpresents.com
Joel Froomkin, Creator
Host and Head Coach
Rich Najuch, Creator
Producer and Admin
www.cruisingwithrich.com
*** Guest coaches subject to change. Any changes in the coaching team will be reflected here on the website.
All listed coaches are eager to join us and have every intention of attending and doing their best. That being said, life happens. Changes are possible, but we will guarantee that the guest coaching team will be of the highest caliber and provide excellent educational opportunities.
Crew Biographies (More Coming Soon)
Sean Pratt
Guest Coach
Sean Pratt has been a working actor for over 30 years. He has been an audiobook narrator for 25 years (aka – Lloyd James), recording over 1,100 books in almost every genre and has received nine AudioFile Magazine “Earphones” awards, five SOVAS nominations, and five “Audie” nominations from the Audio Publishers Association.
Sean is also the author of “To Be or Wanna Be – The Top Ten Differences between a Successful Actor and a Starving Artist.”
Currently, Sean coaches performers on audiobook narration technique, as well as teaching classes on and writing articles about the business of “The Biz”.
Joel Froomkin
Host, Head Coach, and Creator
Joel is an Audie nominated, eleven-time Earphones Award-Winning narrator of over 450 titles. He was the recipient of the 2020 Best Male Narrator Award at the Independent Audio Book Awards and the 2020 Best Humor Narration recipient at the Society of Voice Arts Awards (in addition to his five other SOVAS nominations). He is the recipient of two Audiobook Reviewer awards and was named the first member of the Narrator Hall of Fame and All-Time Favorite Narrator in the Goodreads M/M Reader’s Choice Awards.
With an MFA in theatre from USC, he has served as Director of Drama at Manchester University and taught accents at NYU. He is the creator of Acting for Audio, a zoom-based acting course focused on the art of narration. He is a sucker for Disney and dachshunds.
Rich Najuch
Producer, Admin, and Creator
Rich is the one you will be emailing, phoning, or texting with! All cabin arrangements and workshop bookings will be handled by him.
Rich is an Accredited Cruise Counselor, member of the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), and a registered cruise travel agent.
He is familiar with planning and executing events through his work as Executive Producer at The New Huntington Theater for 10 years, as Executive Assistant to the Dean of Columbia Business School, and a lifetime in the theater. When not booking cruise adventures for Audiobook Narrators, Rich is usually working at a sewing or embroidery machine.