Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Occupation(s)	Actress, Audiobook narrator, Adjunct drama faculty member
Years active	2002–present
Known for	Audiobook narration, Stage and television performances

Joniece Abbott-Pratt is an American performer and audiobook narrator who has earned 14 Earphones Awards from AudioFile and secured the 2022 Audie Award for Short Stories or Collections for her work on Blackout.

Education and career

Growing up in Philadelphia, Abbott-Pratt completed her undergraduate studies at Clark Atlanta University and later obtained an MFA in acting from the University of Iowa. During her time at Iowa, she took part in various productions, such as a 2004 hip-hop rendition of Seven Against Thebes and a 2005 performance of Suzan-Lori Parks' In the Blood.

Her professional journey includes numerous regional theater engagements, television roles, and significant stage performances. Early in her career, she appeared in Kia Corthron's Breath, Boom (2002) in Atlanta and shared the stage in Tracey Scott Wilson's The Good Negro (2009) across Hartford and New York. She also acted in Lydia R. Diamond's Stick Fly (2013) in Philadelphia and Marcus Gardley's The House that Will Not Stand (2014) in New Haven.

Abbott-Pratt has been featured in multiple works by August Wilson, including Gem of the Ocean (2011) in Hartford and Seven Guitars (2015) in Louisville. Additionally, 2015 saw her co-starring in Dominique Morisseau's Sunset Baby as well as Katori Hall's The Mountaintop. In 2019, she led the cast of Jireh Breon Holder's civil rights play Too Heavy for Your Pocket at the George Street Playhouse in New Jersey.

Alongside her acting career, Abbott-Pratt serves as an adjunct drama faculty member at New York University.

Awards and honors

In 2003, Abbott-Pratt received the title of "Best Emerging Actress" from the Atlanta Constitution. Her narration of Jordan Ifueko's Raybearer was highlighted by AudioFile as one of the premier young adult audiobooks in 2020, a recognition she earned again in 2021 for Redemptor. By 2022, both AudioFile and Literary Hub acknowledged her narration of Nightcrawling among the year's top fiction audiobooks.

Awards for Abbott-Pratt's work

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

Narrations

Audiobooks narrated by Abbott-Pratt

Year	Title	Author	Additional narrator(s)
2019	Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname, 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	Template:Sortname
	Like Sisters on the Homefront	Template:Sortname
	One Night in Georgia	Template:Sortname
2020	All the Things We Never Knew	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
	Burn	Template:Sortname
	Grown	Template:Sortname
	Legendborn	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de Ocampo, Gary Bennett, Raphael Corkhill, Barrie Kreinik, Natasha Soudek, Nikki Massoud, Ines del Castillo, and Vikas Adam
	Raybearer	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname, Brittany Pressley, Shayna Small, January LaVoy, Adenrele Ojo, and Janina Edwards

Year	Title	Author	Additional narrator(s)

|- |- | rowspan="10" |2021 |"Blackout" |"Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon" |"Dion Graham, Imani Parks, Jordan Cobb, Shayna Small, A.J Beckles, Bahni Turpin" |- |"Caul Baby" |"Morgan Jerkins" | |- |"For All Time" |"Shanna Miles" |"Landon Woodson" |- |"How It Ends" |"Rachel Howzell Hall" | |- |"The Other Black Girl" |"Zakiya Dalila Harris" |"Aja Naomi King, Heather Alicia Simms, Bahni Turpin" |- |"Redemptor" |"Jordan Ifueko" | |- |"Revival Season" |"Monica West" | |- |"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, Aden Hakimi" |}

Year	Title	Author	Additional narrator(s)

|- |- | rowspan="10" |2022 |"Because Claudette" |"Tracey Baptiste" | |- |"Blood Like Fate" |"Liselle Sambury" | |- |"Bloodmarked" |"Tracy Deonn" | |- |"Love Radio" |"Ebony LaDelle" |"JaQwan J. Kelly" |- |"Nightcrawling" |"Leila Mottley" | |- |"Quantum Girl Theory" |"Erin Kate Ryan" |"Saskia Maarleveld, P. J. Ochlan" |- |"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, Karla Mosley" |- |"Stories from the Tenants Downstairs" |"Sidik Fofana" |"Nile Bullock, Sidik Fofana, Dominic Hoffman, DePre Owens, André Santana, Bahni Turpin, Jade Wheeler" |- |"Whiteout" |"Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon" |"Danielle Shemaiah, Nic Stone, Shayna Small, Bahni Turpin, Alaska Jackson, Kevin R. Free, James Fouhey, Korey Jackson" |- |"Yonder" |"Jabari Asim" |"Lamarr Gulley, JD Jackson, Adam Lazarre-White, Imani Jade Powers, Janina Edwards" |}

Year	Title	Author	Additional narrator(s)

|- |- | rowspan="7" |2023 |'Blood Debts' |'Terry J. Benton-Walker' |'Zeno Robinson, Bahni Turpin, Torian Brackett' |- |'The Davenports' |'Krystal Marquis' | |- |'The House is on Fire' |'Rachel Beanland' |'Andi Arndt, Michael Crouch, Ruffin Prentiss III' |- |'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, Nicky Endres' |- |'Lone Women' |'Victor LaValle' | |- |'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, Vaneh Assadourian' |- |'Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophesy' |'Angie Thomas' | |}

Filmography

Complete list of Abbott-Pratt's screen credits

Year	Title	Format	Character	Additional Information
2007	Why Did I Get Married?	Film	College Student #3
2013	Grand Theft Auto V	Video game	Local Population (voice)
2015	American Odyssey	Television	Margaret	Appeared in 1 episode
2015	Orange Is the New Black	Television	Ultrasound Technician	Featured in 1 episode
2015	Show Me a Hero	Television	Woman	Participated in 2 episodes
2016	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Television	Latanya Franks Marisa	Appeared across 2 episodes
2017	Blindspot	Television	Charly Evon	Single episode appearance
2018	Instinct	Television	Ashley	One episode role
2016-2018	Luke Cage	Television	Etta Lucas	Featured in 2 episodes
2019	The Good Fight	Television	Monique Cromley	Single episode appearance
2020	FBI: Most Wanted	Television	Michelle Carter	One episode role
2020	The Annex	Television	Joniece
2021	Evil	Television	Ashley	Appeared in 1 episode
2022	Dynasty	Television	Nurse Julia	Single episode role

External links

• Official website
• IMDb profile