Our Talent

Ms. Chilton is a New York-based Actor/Playwright/Librettist/Author. As a professional narrator/voiceover artist, she has narrated dozens of audiobooks with leading audiobook publishers including Audible.com, Recorded Books, Penguin Random House, HarperAudio, Simon & Schuster Audio, Brilliance Audio, Hatchette, among others. She is the recipient of 2020 AUDIE Award for Non-Fiction Narration for GRACE WILL LEAD US HOME: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness by Jennifer Berry Hawes; Audiofile Earphones Awards for her performance of THE MARCH AGAINST FEAR by Ann Bausum and I’VE GOT A HOME IN GLORY LAND by Karolyn Smardz Frost. She is also an accomplished voiceover artist; a veteran client of Innovative Artists Agency- New York. Her voice can be heard on numerous national network television, radio and internet advertising campaigns.

Recent audiobook narration includes: THE PROPHETS by Robert Jones, Jr.; WASTE: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret by Catherine Coleman Flowers; A KNOCK AT MIDNIGHT: A Story of Hope, Justice and Freedom by Brittany K. Barnett; CRITICAL RACE THEORY (3rd Edition) by Richard Delgado; RACECRAFT: The Soul of Inequality in America Life by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields; LIGHTING THE FIRES OF FREEDOM: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement by Dr. Janet Dewart Bell: INVISIBLE: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster by Stephen L. Carter, MOST BLESSED OF THE PATRIARCHS: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination by Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf, THE FIREBRAND AND THE FIRST LADY: Portrait of a Friendship Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott, BILLIE HOLIDAY: The Musician And The Myth by John Szwed, and award-winning title THE NEW JIM CROW by Michelle Alexander.

She is author of the critically-acclaimed biography HAZEL SCOTT: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist (University of Michigan Press). Her narration of this work, published by Recorded Books, also received outstanding reviews from AudioFile Magazine that stated: “Chilton’s clam, eloquent tone replicates Scott’s 1940s musical style. This performance invokes the memories of smoked-filled jazz clubs and the Hollywood glam of the era.”

Ms. Chilton holds a M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from New York University/Tisch School of the Arts. She is a member of SAG/AFTRA, Actors Equity Association (AEA), Association of the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), New York Women in Film & Television (NYWFT), The Toni Morrison Society, and The Dramatists Guild.
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