Membership

We’re building the world’s largest group of professional narrators

PANA is the world’s premier non-profit organization exclusively established for professional audiobook narrators. PANA was founded by professional audiobook narrators in 2021 and has over 500 members today. PANA programming is led by a board of professional audiobook narrators who are experts in the industry.

If you are a professional audiobook narrator, become a member and join a community dedicated to the development and support of human narration.

Why should I become a member?

  • Grow with professional free and subsidized educational classes, workshops, and resources.
  • Enjoy free and subsidized narrator-only events.
  • Be part of exclusive casting director meetups.
  • Find a community of professional narrators in your local area and worldwide.
  • Benefit from social, emotional, and professional support.
  • Help raise the public awareness of human narrators with listeners and authors.
  • Be part of the solution with DEI efforts across the audiobook industry.
  • Develop valuable skills and experiences as a volunteer.
  • Bring your vision for the narrator community to life.

Membership FAQs

The difference is in the title: the Audio Publishers Association is a trade association that advocates for and supports publishers. We very much appreciate the APA, and we’re very grateful for their extensive offerings supporting narrators! However, PANA is the only trade association exclusively for professional audiobook narrators. We focus on advocating for human narrators in the public and industry consciousness, being the change we want to see in the audiobook industry regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion, and providing numerous opportunities for education, support, and fun for our members’ health and careers. Member dues directly support these activities and initiatives.

As a 501(c)(3) trade association, PANA has legal limits to what it can and should do for members, including the recognition that audiobook contract standards, negotiation, verbiage, and enforcement is the exclusive domain of SAG/AFTRA, the actors’ union. In contrast, PANA’s purpose is to educate its members to improve their skills and/or certification, to educate and exemplify to the industry diversity, equity, and inclusion practices, and to educate the public on the value of human narrators. If you have questions or concerns regarding the above matters, union member or no, please email SAG/AFTRA’s Jane Love, Richard Larkin, and Andrea Henderson directly.

While we are huge supporters of the SAG/AFTRA union and its work for all narrators, we welcome both union and nonunion members of the narrator community to join us!

PANA dues go towards PANA activities and initiatives! This includes subsidized education classes / workshops / seminars, numerous social and support groups, advocacy for the human narrator in industry and public consciousness, and so much more.

Absolutely! We currently have members from Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia working on our committees and benefiting from our educational, social, and advocacy programs.

More questions about joining PANA?

Our Executive Director, Maria Medina EdD, would love to answer them! Please reach out at executivedirector@pronarrators.org