The Audie Award for Audio Drama is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in performance, production, and content for an audiodrama released in a given year. Originally the award was given as the Audie Award for Theatrical Production in 1999; in 2000 and 2001 the award was given as the Audie Award for Theatrical Performance. The award was not given in 2002.
Winners are listed first each year and highlighted in green.
| Year of Release | Audio Drama | Author | Cast | Audio Drama Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999[1] | (1984) | , Amy Irving, and Harris Yulin | L.A. Theatre Works | |
| (1999) | (adapted by John Vreeke) | Full cast | NYS Theatre Institute/Family Classic Audio Books | |
| All My Sons (1946) | Julie Harris, James Farentino, and Arye Gross | L.A. Theatre Works |
| Year of Release | Audio Drama | Author | Cast | Audio Drama Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000[2] | 25th Anniversary (1999) | HighBridge Audio | ||
| (1996) | , David Dukes, Kurt Deutsch, and Matt McGrath | L.A. Theatre Works | ||
| Pretty Fire (1995) | L.A. Theatre Works | |||
| 2001[3] | Agnes of God (1979) | , Emily Bergl, and Harriet Harris | L.A. Theatre Works | |
| Neat (2000) | L.A. Theatre Works | |||
| Table Manners (1973) | , Ken Danziger, Martin Jarvis, Jane Leeves, Christopher Neame, and Carolyn Seymour | L.A. Theatre Works | ||
| 2002[4] | No award presented | |||
| 2003[5] | The Guys (2002) | and Bill Irwin | Random House Audio | |
| Billy Budd, Sailor (1924; written 1892) | (Dramatized by Philip Glassborow and Paul McCusker) | Full cast | Focus on the Family | |
| Hedda Gabler (1891) | , Michael Maloney, Philip Voss, Emma Fielding, and full cast | Naxos Audiobooks | ||
| King Lear (1606) | , Alec McCowen, Kenneth Branagh, and full cast | Naxos Audiobooks | ||
| The Silver Chair (1953) | (dramatized by Paul McCusker) | Full cast | Focus on the Family | |
| 2004[6] | (2003) | Full cast | The Audio Partners | |
| (1950–1956) | (dramatized by Paul McCusker) | Full cast | Focus on the Family | |
| At Home in Mitford (1996) | (dramatized by Paul McCusker) | Full cast | Tyndale Audio | |
| Father Gilbert Mysteries (Series 2) (2004) | Full cast | Focus on the Family | ||
| On the Waterfront (1954) | Full cast | L.A. Theatre Works | ||
| 2005[7] | Buddha Boy (2003) | and the Full Cast Family | Full Cast Audio | |
| Anne of Green Gables (1908) | (dramatized by Chris Fabry) | Full cast | Tyndale Audio | |
| Going to St. Ives (1996) | and Caroline Goodall | L.A. Theatre Works | ||
| (1985) | (adapted by Michael O'Brien) | BTC Audiobooks/Goose Lane Editions | ||
| (1964) | (adapted by James W. Nichol) | BTC Audiobooks/Goose Lane Editions | ||
| 2006[8] | (2005) | (adapted by Arthur Conan Doyle, William Gillette and Yuri Rasovsky) | , Kristoffer Tabori, and full cast | Blackstone Audio |
| At the Back of the North Wind (1871) | (adapted by Murray Watts and Philip Glassborow) | Full cast | Tyndale House | |
| (2000) | (adapted by Michael O'Brien) | Full cast | BTC Audiobooks/Goose Lane Editions | |
| Frozen (1998) | , Jeffrey Donovan, and Laila Robins | L.A. Theatre Works | ||
| (1971) | (dramatized by Dave Arnold) | Full cast | Tyndale House | |
| 2007[9] | Dramatic Eyewitness Accounts from the Luke Reports (2006) | Full cast | Tyndale/Focus on the Family | |
| Airborn (2004) | and full cast | Full Cast Audio | ||
| (2004) | and Brad Strickland | and full cast | Full Cast Audio | |
| Nightmares on Congress Street (Part V) (2006) | , Edgar Allan Poe, Alex Irvine, Michael Duffy, Ray Bradbury, Hugh B. Cave, and H. P. Lovecraft | Full cast | Tantor Media | |
| (1891) | (dramatized by Nick McCarty) | and full cast | BBC Audiobooks America | |
| 2008[10] [11] | Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls (2007) | , Simon Templeman, Moira Quirk, Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres, Robertson Dean, and W. Morgan Sheppard | Blackstone Audio | |
| Princess Academy (2005) | Full Cast Audio | |||
| Radio Theatre: Amazing Grace (2007) | and Dave Arnold | , David Oyelowo, Chris Larkin, Donald Sinden, Martin Jarvis, Laura-Michelle Kelly, and full cast | Focus on the Family/Tyndale House | |
| (1954) | Full Cast Audio | |||
| Vienna Prelude (2000) | Sean Barrett | Family Audio Library | ||
| 2009[12] [13] | (8th or 9th century B.C.) | Homer (dramatized by Simon Armitage) | , Amanda Redman, and full cast | BBC Audiobooks America |
| Jack's Last Call (2008) | and full cast | SueMedia Productions | ||
| Secret Order (2008) | , Will McCormack, Angela Goethals, and Richard Schiff | L.A. Theatre Works | ||
| Sun Moon Stars Rain (2006) | Full Cast Audio | |||
| Tales from the Perilous Realm | (adapted by Brian Sibley) | and full cast | BBC Audiobooks America | |
| Year of Release | Audio Drama | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Audio Drama Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010[14] [15] | (1982) | (producer)[16] | , Richard Dreyfuss, Gary Sinise, and full cast | Thomas Nelson |
| Focus on the Family Radio Theatre: C. S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters (1942) | (adapted by Paul McCusker) | and full cast | Tyndale Audio | |
| Little Dorrit (1857) | (dramatized by Doug Lucie) | Full cast | BBC Audiobooks America | |
| (1930) | (dramatized by Yuri Rasovsky) | , Sandra Oh, and Edward Herrmann | Blackstone Audio | |
| (1959) | , James Gleason, Lily Rabe, David Strathairn, and Shannon Cochran | L.A. Theatre Works | ||
| 2011[17] | Saint Joan (1923) | , Edward Herrmann, Kristoffer Tabori, and full cast | Blackstone Audio | |
| , Brian Cox, and Jeff Perry | L.A. Theatre Works | |||
| (1895) | , Charles Busch, Neil Dickson, Jill Gascoine, James Marsters, Christopher Neame, and Matthew Wolf | L.A. Theatre Works | ||
| (2006) | , Ezra Knight, and Tom Stechschulte | Recorded Books | ||
| Vengeance (2008) | , Stephanie Zimbalist, and Don Leslie | Griffyn Ink | ||
| 2012[18] [19] | (1944–1994) | Full cast | L.A. Theatre Works | |
| (1967) | , Terry Johnson, and Calder Willingham (adapted by Buck Henry) | , Matthew Rhys, and full cast | L.A. Theatre Works | |
| (1919) | (adapted by Yuri Rasovsky) | and full cast | Blackstone Audio | |
| We're Alive | Full cast | Blackstone Audio | ||
| 2013[20] | Swordspoint (1989) | , Dion Graham, Katherine Kellgren, Robert Fass, Nick Sullivan, Simon Jones, Sam Guncler, and Anne Bobby | SueMedia Productions (for Neil Gaiman Presents/ACX) | |
| Die, Snow White! Die, Damn You | (2012) | , Simon Helberg, Kate Burton, and full cast | Blackstone Audio | |
| I, Claudius (2010) | (adapted by Robin Brooks) | , Tom Goodman-Hill, and full cast | AudioGO | |
| (2012) | and the Colonial Radio Players | Brilliance Audio | ||
| Titanium Rain (Series 1) (2008) | and Kat Rocha | , Elizabeth Knowelden, Carrington Macduffie, and full cast | The Audiocomics Company | |
| Trouble on His Wings (1939) | , Bob Caso, R. F. Daley, Jim Meskimen, and Matt Scott | Galaxy Press | ||
| 2014[21] | Oliver Twist (1838) | (adapted by Paul McCusker) | , Henry Goodman, Lee Boardman, Geoffrey Palmer, Roy Hudd, Finty Williams, and a full cast | Tyndale Audio |
| (2002) | and Delia Sherman | et al. | SueMedia Productions (for Neil Gaiman Presents/Audible) | |
| Hollywood Said No! (2013) | and David Cross | , David Cross, and full cast | Hachette Audio | |
| Marvel Civil War (2012) | , Richard Cutting, Tim Getman, James Keegan, Kimberly Gilbert, and full cast | GraphicAudio | ||
| Screaming with the Cannibals (2003) | Mountain Whispers Audiobooks | |||
| (1897) | (adapted by M. J. Elliott) | Colonial Radio Players | Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air | |
| 2015[22] | (1902) | (adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright) | , Wilson Bethel, Seamus Dever, Sarah Drew, Henri Lubatti, James Marsters, Christopher Neame, Moira Quirk, and Darren Richardson | L.A. Theatre Works |
| Anne Manx and the Blood Chase (2014) | , Moira Kelly, Patricia Tallman, and a full cast | Radio Repertory Company of America | ||
| (2006) | , Kimberly Gilbert, David Jourdan, and full cast | GraphicAudio | ||
| Swords of Riverside (2014) | and Delia Sherman | , Barbara Rosenblat, Katherine Kellgren, Dion Graham, Simon Jones, et al. | SueMedia Productions (for Neil Gaiman/ACX) | |
| Under Drake's Flag (1883) | (adapted by John Fornof)[23] | Heirloom Audio Productions | ||
| 2016[24] | The Jungle Book: The Mowgli Stories (1894) | (adapted by Bev Doyle and Richard Kurti) | , Richard E. Grant, Colin Salmon, Tim McInnerny, Bernard Cribbins, Celia Imrie, and Martin Shaw | Audible |
| Amok (2007) | Full cast | Audible Studios | ||
| Christmas Eve, 1914 (2014) | Full cast | Audible Studios | ||
| (2013) | , Lara Pulver, Niamh Walsh, Adjoa Andoh, Peter Forbes, John Sessions, and Michael Maloney | HarperAudio | ||
| (2014) | and full cast | Audible | ||
| 2017[25] | In the Embers (2015) | and Jerry Stearns | , Edwin Strout, Dean Johnson, Jacquie Maddix, and full cast | Great Northern Audio Theatre/Blackstone Audio |
| (2014) | (adapted by Dirk Maggs) | , Corey Johnson, Matthew Lewis, Kathryn Drysdale, Laurel Lefkow, Andrea Deck, and Mac McDonald | Audible | |
| "Death and the Queen", (2016) | , Catherine Tate, Alice Krige, Blake Ritson, Beth Chalmers, and Alan Cox | Big Finish Productions | ||
| "Only the Monstrous", Doctor Who: The War Doctor (2015) | , Jacqueline Pearce, Carolyn Seymour, and Lucy Briggs-Owen | Big Finish Productions | ||
| (2009) | and Larry Powell | L.A. Theatre Works | ||
| 2018[26] | Brother Francis: The Barefoot Saint of Assisi (2016) | , Owen Teale, Geoffrey Palmer, and full cast | Augustine Institute | |
| Cicero (2018) | and George Naylor | Big Finish Productions | ||
| (2017) | Blackstone Publishing | |||
| Treasure Island (1882) | (adapted by Marty Ross) | , Daniel Mays, Catherine Tate, Owen Teale, and Gerran Howell | Audible Studios | |
| (2017) | , Hugo Armstrong, Seamus Dever, Matthew Floyd Miller, James Morrison, David Selby, Rich Sommer, Josh Stamberg, Nick Toren, John Vickery, and Jules Willcox | L.A. Theatre Works | ||
| 2019[27] | (1897) | (adapted by Nicholas Briggs) | and Lucy Briggs-Owen | Big Finish Productions |
| Alien Sea of Sorrows (2014) | (adapted by Dirk Maggs) | , Stockard Channing, Tony Gardner, Lorelei King, Laurel Lefkow, and full cast | Audible Studios | |
| Disgraced (2012) | , Behzad Dabu, Hari Dhillon, Sameerah Luqmaan-Harris, and Emily Swallow | L.A. Theatre Works | ||
| Emma (1815) | (adapted by Anna Lea) | , Isabella Inchbald, Joanne Froggatt, Joseph Millson, Morgana Robinson, and full cast | Audible Studios | |
| Girls & Boys (2018) | Audible | |||
| Steal the Stars (2018) | Full cast | Macmillan Audio |
| Year of Release | Audio Drama | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Audio Drama Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020[28] | Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes | , Nathan Lane, Susan Brown, Denise Gough, and full cast | Penguin Random House Audio | |
| (2015) | Audible Originals | |||
| Birthday Suit (2019) | , Sebastian York, January LaVoy, Julia Whelan, R. C. Bray, Shane East, Joe Arden, Erin Mallon, Dion Graham, Savannah Peachwood, Jason Clarke, and Robin Miles | Lauren Blakely Books | ||
| Have a Nice Day (2018) | and Quinton Peeples | , Annette Bening, Dick Cavett, Auliʻi Cravalho, Billy Crystal, Rachel Dratch, Darrell Hammond, Christopher Jackson, Kevin Kline, Robin Thede, and full cast | Audible Originals | |
| Puss in Boots: A Musical (2019) | , Harvey Edelman, and Khristine Hvam | , Mark Aldrich, Barrett Leddy, Nick Sullivan, Brian Holden, Al Fallick, Lisa Livesay, Meredith Inglesby, Lynn Norris, John E. Brady, and Johnny Heller | Harper Audio | |
| 2021[29] | (Series 1) | , David K. Barnes, Lisa McMullin, and John Dorney | , Nicola Walker, Hattie Morahan, Rebecca Root, Tom Price, and Tom Baker | Big Finish Productions |
| ATA Girl 2 | and Louise Jameson | , Kate Copeland, Amy Downham, Helen Goldwyn, Holly Jackson Walters, Louise Jameson, Wilf Scolding, and Elinor Lawless | Big Finish Productions | |
| Come Find Me | , Jonathan Davis, Caitlin Kelly, Erin Mallon, and Thérèse Plummer | Erin Mallon | ||
| (script ed. Russell McGee) | Michael Brainard, Greta Lind, Kate Braun, Andrew Bowen, Josh Hogan, Tim Grimm, Peter Spellos, and full cast | WFIU Public Radio | ||
| Frankenstein A Stage Adaptation | , Euriamis Losada, Henry O. Arnold, Kim Bretton, Morgan Davis, Matt Rose, Micah Williams, Brooks Bennett, Austin Olive, and Garris Wimmer | Oasis Audio | ||
| 2022[30] | Sherlock Holmes: The Seamstress of Peckham Rye | , Richard Earl, Lucy Briggs-Owen, India Fisher, James Joyce, Anjella MacKintosh, Glen McCready, and Mark Elstob | Big Finish Productions | |
| Chonburi International Hotel and Butterfly Club | ,Kate Bornstein, Annie Golden, Telly Leung, Jason Tam, Bianca Leigh, Ivory Aquino, Pooya Mohseni, Samy Figaredo, Angelica Ross, Liz Lark Brown, Ita Segev, and Dana Aliya Levinson | Audible Originals | ||
A Black Book Audio Drama | , Aaron Tracy, and Ryan Silbert | , Krysten Ritter, Nathalie Emmanuel, Beau Bridges, and a full cast | Audible Originals | |
| , Alex Jennings, Roger Allam, Paul Rhys, Nicholas Boulton, Paul Hilton, David Suchet, Barnaby Kay, and Lia Williams | BBC Audio/ Penguin Random House UK | |||
| No-No Boy (2010) | , from the novel by John Okada | , Kurt Kanazawa, Emily Kuroda, John Miyasaki, Ken Narasaki, Sharon Omi, Joy Osmanski, Sab Shimono, and Paul Yen | L.A. Theatre Works | |
| 2023[31] | Pipeline (2017) | , Eugene Byrd, Demetrius Grosse, Sharon Lawrence, X Mayo, Uyoata Udi, and Karen Malina White | L.A. Theatre Works | |
| 1984 (1949) | , adapted by Anna Lea | , Rhianne Barreto, Michael Maloney, Clare Corbett, Homer Todiwala, Jonathan Keeble, Rupert Holliday-Evans, Sarah Paul, Simon Shepherd, Theo Solomon, Wayne Forester, Finnigan Morris, Hugo Whysall, Jake Turner, Jo Ashe, Katrina Cooke, Linton Tulloch, Morgan Denman, Bronwen Denman, Muriel Abehsera, and Rob Wilson | Storytel | |
| Clean Sweep | , Christopher Walker, Holly Adams, James Lewis, Karen Novack, Ken Jackson, Nora Achrati, Peter Holdway, Elias Khalil, Ryan Reid, and Alex Hill-Knight | GraphicAudio | ||
| Coraline (2002) | , Pixie Davies, Katherine Kingsley, Julian Clary, Jacqueline Boatswain, Kevin McNally, Adjoa Andoh, Adrian Schiller, Heather Nicol, William Parker, and Nicole Davis | HarperAudio | ||
| Good Omens (1990) | and Terry Pratchett | , Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Katherine Kingsley, Arthur Darvill, Peter Forbes, Gabrielle Glaister, Louis Davison, Pixie Davies, Chris Nelson, Ferdinand Frisby Williams, Adjoa Andoh, Allan Corduner, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, John Hopkins, Lorelei King, Matt Reeves, and Lemn Sissay | HarperAudio | |
| 2024[32] | Third Eye | , Neil Gaiman, and full cast | Audible Originals | |
| None of This Is True (2023) | , Louise Brealey, and a full cast | Simon & Schuster Audio | ||
| Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia | , Tara Lynne Barr, and a full cast | L.A. Theatre Works | ||
| Star Wars: The Battle of Jedha (The High Republic) | , Kristen Sieh, and a full cast | Penguin Random House Audio | ||
| Red Rising (2014) | , John Kielty, and a full cast | Graphic Audio |