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Coming Soon: Voices of War: Operation Homecoming, A production of the National Endowment of the Arts, 2006.

Crystal City, Orson Scott Card, Audio Literature/Fantastic Audio, 2005.

AudioFiles Magazine Earphones Award for exceptional audio performance

Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card, Audio Literature/Fantastic Audio, 2003.

AudioFiles Magazine Earphones Award for exceptional audio performance

The Conspiracy Club, Jonathan Kellerman, Random House, 2003.


"David Birney delivers this complex mystery with a subtle intensity that compels the listener's interest. Both story and voice are magnetic."
- AudioFile Magazine June/July 2004

Reversible Errors, by Scott Turow, Random House Audiobooks, 2002.

Shadow of the Hedgemon, Orson Scott Card, 2001.

The Christmas Tree, Julie Salamon, Random House for Christmas, 1996.

Audie Award

"...becomes a special production when read by David Birney...Birney brings an immediacy and compassion to the moving story..."

-Christian Science Monitor
Sole Survivor, Dean Koontz. Random House.
"Actor David Birney reads with a skill that contributes to the suspense, anger hope and wonder of the story, especially the characterization of Joe."
-Library Journal, April 1, 1997

"...in light of the events of the Heaven's Gate cult, David Birney's portrayal of joe Carpenter resonates with Carpenter's anguish over the death of his wife and daughters in the crash. At the same time, his anger and determnination to solve the mystery balance his ever present grief. Birney's years in the theater serve him well."

-Audio File, October 1997
The Fall of a Sparrow, by Robert Hellenga, New Star Media Inc., 1998.
"Birney brings soulful intimacy to Woody's part... a brilliantly effecting narrative."
Poems of Love and Desire: An Anthology of Love Poetry Throughout the Ages. Dove Books. Produced and recorded by David Birney. With David Birney, Lee Remick, Michael York, Robert Stephens, and Jane Lapotaire.
 

Sir Vidia's Shadow,by Paul Theroux, New Star Media Inc., 1998.

"David Birney does a great job."
-Detroit Free Press

"Reader David Birney gives and excellent characterization of V. S. Naaipaul...Sir Vidia...remarkable."

-Arizona Daily Star
Silent Snow, Thayer, New Star Media, 1999
For the Time Being, Annie Dillard, New Star Media, 1999
The Law of Similars, Random House, 1998
Titanic Hearings, New Star Media Inc. 1998
Riptide, by Douglas Prestion and Lincoln Child, Time-Warner Audio Books. 1998
Double Image, by David Morrell, Dove Books, 1998.
"David Birney is stellar in his performance..."
-St. Louis Post Dispatch, July 19, 1998
Short Stories of Paul Theroux, Dove Books, 1997.
Cape Cod, by William Martin.
Night of the Fox, Jack Higgins, (Syndicated) video narrator.
Murder on the Aisle, edited by Mary Higgins Clark.
Beastly Tales, Mystery Writers of America Series.
Murder for Christmas,Mystery Writers Anthology.
Best of the West, Classic stories of the American Frontier.
Last Laughs, Mystery Writers of America Anthology.
Out on The Rim, by Ross Thomas.
Great Cat Mysteries, An Anthology of Feline Capers.
The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint Exupery, recorded for KPFK Radio, Los Angeles.
 

Theatreworks, NPR Playhouse and BBC dramatic recordings.

2000x.  Recently recorded for NPR. Appearing in the "R.U.R" and "A Learned Fable" episodes.

2001 Bradbury Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America
Available for download: Audible.com
The Diary of Anne Frank. 1999
An American Daughter, Wendy Wasserstein, 1998.
Star Wars.
Julius Ceasar, William Shakespeare
Tears of Rage, Doris Baisley
The Extra Man, Richard Greenberg
Murder in the First, Dan Gordon
The White Plague, Karel Kapek