Oliver Wyman

Oliver Wyman, a native New Yorker, has appeared on stage as well as in film, and television.  He is one of the founders of New York City's Collective Unconscious theater, and his performances include the award-winning “reality play” Charlie Victor Romeo and A.R. McElhinney's cult classic film A Chronicle of Corpses.  He also lent his voice to several episodes of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
 
Oliver's work as a narrator has won many awards, including Audie awards for his reading of Lance Armstrong's autobiography, It's Not About the Bike, and Thomas L. Friedman's The World is Flat.  He also read James Frey's A Million Little Pieces, Tim Dorsey's Atomic Lobster, and David Weber's By Schism Rent Asunder.  Oliver was named a 2008 Best Voice in Nonfiction & Culture by AudioFile Magainze.

 


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