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Kathryn Ann "Kate" Fleming (6 October 1965 - 14
December 2006)[1]
was an American
award-winning audio book narrator and producer.
She was the owner and executive producer at Cedar House Audio,
an audio production
company specializing in spoken word that is located in Seattle, Washington, United States. Her
most noted work is the voice of Daisy in Mario Tennis.
Fleming died when a flash flood trapped her inside her Madison Valley basement studio during the
Hanukkah Eve Wind Storm of
2006. She is survived by her partner of nine years, Charlene
Strong.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
Fleming was born in Arlington,
Virginia. She grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and graduated from the College of
William and Mary in 1987 (Bachelor of Arts, Religion). Fleming studied at the Actors Theatre of
Louisville, Kentucky
and was an alumna of the 1987/1988 Apprentice Company.[8] After a
stint as a professional actor, she branched into audio
books in the mid-1990s. Fleming recorded well over 200 titles,
many under the stage
name Anna Fields.[9]
In 2004, Fleming won the Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction for her
performance of Ruth
Ozeki's All Over Creation. In a 1 July 2005 interview
with the William & Mary Alumni Association, Fleming noted
several of her favorite narration projects:[10]
References
- ^ Rourke, Mary (2006-12-24). "Kate Fleming, 41; Narrator
was a star in the audio book world". The Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-fleming24dec24,0,6257138.story?coll=la-home-obituaries. Retrieved
2007-01-26.
- ^ Nalder, Eric; Vanessa Ho (2006-12-15). "Flash flood killed Madison
Valley woman". The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/296094_fleming15ww.html. Retrieved
2006-12-16.
- ^ Green, Sara Jean; Sharon Pian Chan, Nancy
Bartley, and Sanjay Bhatt (2006-12-16). "Audiobook star killed in
basement flood". The Seattle Times. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003480664_stormdead16m.html. Retrieved
2006-12-16.
- ^ Rowe, Claudia (2006-12-18). "Kate Fleming, 1965-2006:
Actress a star in the world of audio books". The Seattle
Post-Intelligencer. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/296299_flemingobit18.html. Retrieved
2006-12-18.
- ^ Nalder, Eric (2006-12-16). "Halted drainpipe project
continues to soak neighborhood". The Seattle
Post-Intelligencer. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/296210_flemingside16.html. Retrieved
2006-12-18.
- ^ Nalder, Eric; Claudia Rowe (2006-12-19). "Fleming's neighbors long
complained about drains". The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/296439_drains19.html. Retrieved
2006-12-19.
- ^ Nalder, Eric (2006-12-22). "High volume of water, trouble
calls fed tragedy". The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/296898_drains22.html. Retrieved
2006-12-22.
- ^
"Apprentice/Intern Alumni
Directory". Actors Theatre of Louisville. http://www.actorstheatre.org/about_alumni.htm. Retrieved
2006-12-16.
- ^
Holley, Joe; Jane Horwitz (2006-12-20).
"Actress, Voice-Over Artist
Kate Fleming, 41; Drowned in Studio During Seattle Flooding".
The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/19/AR2006121901590.html. Retrieved
2006-12-22.
- ^
"Alumni Q&A: Kate Fleming
'87". The William & Mary Alumni Association.
2005-07-01. http://services.wmalumni.com/cgi-any/newspages.dll/pages?pagegroup=alumni&htmlfile=newspages3_alumni.htm&record=244. Retrieved
2006-12-16.
External
links
- Cedar House Audio
- AudioFile magazine Golden
Voices profile
- An obituary on the lesbian
site AfterEllen.com
- Book World Loses Narrator Kate
Fleming December 19, 2006 on National Public Radio; Two
minutes and 52 seconds. (Windows Media Player, RealPlayer).
- Add your voice to the chorus
calling for equality and dignity, Guest column by Charlene
Strong, Seattle Times, August 9, 2007
- In tragedy's wake, an unlikely
activist is born, Seattle Gay News, November 16, 2007
- "for my wife" movie
trailer"
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