Audiobook Producer

Allison Light is passionate about all things audio, with experience producing audiobooks, audio dramas, radio news stories, live talk shows, and podcasts.

She is a Senior Producer with Simon & Schuster Audio, where she oversees S&S’s foray into audio-exclusive releases, producing and directing audio dramas complete with full casts and robust sound design as well as traditional front-list titles.

Here are some highlights:

Audio Originals:

• That Friend by Sabrina Brier

• Know Your Newlywed by Hillary Nussbaum and Heather Taylor (Audible Best Romance Listens of 2024) read by Tyler Posey and Mary Mouser

• New Nigeria County by Clare Brown

• One of Our Own by Lucinda Berry (Spotify Best Mystery and Best Narration of 2024) read by A.J. Cook and Tessa Albertson

• The Honeymoon Crashers by Christina Lauren (Audible Best Romance Listens of 2023) read by Harry Shum Jr. and Jessica Marie Garcia

Traditional audiobooks:

• The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford (NYT Bestseller, Audie Nominee)

• Pretty Boys are Poisonous by Megan Fox

• Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker read by Aunjanue Ellis with Alice Walker

• A Billion Years by Mike Rinder

• The World Deserves My Children by Natasha Leggero

• Everything’s Fine by Cecilia Rabess, read by Denée Benton

• Machiavelli for Women by NPR’s Stacey Vanek Smith (2022 Audie Award Winner, Business/Personal Development)

• Smile by playwright Sarah Ruhl

• Fearless and Boulevard of Dreams by Mandy Gonzalez

• Cuba by Ada Ferrer, read by Alma Cuervo

• Soñemos Juntos by Pope Francis (Spanish), read by Cástulo Guerra