Marni was nominated for Best Fiction Audiobook Narrator up against Ethan Hawke and Meryl Streep at the prestigious Audie Awards (like the Oscars of audiobooks) in 2024, and won an Audie in 2025. With hundreds of titles she has narrated available on Audible, Marni wants to change the world by telling raw, emotional stories about complex, flawed, and strong women. 

Marni is also a co-founder of Cincinnati Shakespeare Company (now in its 31st year), as well as a playwright, teacher, children's book illustrator, and acting coach, who lives with her husband, kiddo, dog, fish, snake, and chickens outside Washington, DC.

Created and performed by Marni Penning.

Engineering by John Detty of Detty Studios.

Original music by SZG.

Text adapted from Project Gutenberg.

This podcast has been recorded as a gift to English Teachers everywhere, to give them a free, accessible audio version of Shakespeare's plays that their students can listen to anywhere, at any time. 

Please pass this link along to any teachers you know.

Enjoy!

Marni is a co-founder of Cincinnati Shakespeare Company and has performed in 54 productions of 23 of Shakespeare's plays in her decades-long career, including leading roles at the Shakespeare Theatre and Folger Theatre in Washington, DC, as well as regional theatres across the United States and on stages in England and Scotland. She toured for three years with what is now The American Shakespeare Center, racking up thousands of performances to hundreds of thousands of people.

Marni's favorite Shakespearean roles have been the title role in Hamlet (from which her moniker "The Lady Hamlet" was coined), and multiple turns at Beatrice, Lady Mac, and Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Act Four will be uploaded next week... stay tuned!

Created and performed by Marni Penning.

Engineering by John Detty of Detty Studios.

Original music by SZG.

Text adapted from Project Gutenberg.

This podcast has been recorded as a gift to English Teachers everywhere, to give them a free, accessible audio version of Shakespeare's plays that their students can listen to anywhere, at any time. 

Please pass this link along to any teachers you know.

Enjoy!

Marni is a co-founder of Cincinnati Shakespeare Company and has performed in 54 productions of 23 of Shakespeare's plays in her decades-long career, including leading roles at the Shakespeare Theatre and Folger Theatre in Washington, DC, as well as regional theatres across the United States and on stages in England and Scotland. She toured for three years with what is now The American Shakespeare Center, racking up thousands of performances to hundreds of thousands of people.

Marni's favorite Shakespearean roles have been the title role in Hamlet (from which her moniker "The Lady Hamlet" was coined), and multiple turns at Beatrice, Lady Mac, and Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Act Three will be uploaded next week... stay tuned!

Created and performed by Marni Penning.

Engineering by John Detty of Detty Studios.

Original music by SZG.

Text adapted from Project Gutenberg.

This podcast has been recorded as a gift to English Teachers everywhere, to give them a free, accessible audio version of Shakespeare's plays that their students can listen to anywhere, at any time. 

Please pass this link along to any teachers you know.

Enjoy!

Marni is a co-founder of Cincinnati Shakespeare Company and has performed in 54 productions of 23 of Shakespeare's plays in her decades-long career, including leading roles at the Shakespeare Theatre and Folger Theatre in Washington, DC, as well as regional theatres across the United States and on stages in England and Scotland. She toured for three years with what is now The American Shakespeare Center, racking up thousands of performances to hundreds of thousands of people.

Marni's favorite Shakespearean roles have been the title role in Hamlet (from which her moniker "The Lady Hamlet" was coined), and multiple turns at Beatrice, Lady Mac, and Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Act Two will be uploaded next week... stay tuned!

Created and performed by Marni Penning.

Engineering by John Detty of Detty Studios.

Original music by SZG.

Text adapted from Project Gutenberg.

This podcast has been recorded as a gift to English Teachers everywhere, to give them a free, accessible audio version of Shakespeare's plays that their students can listen to anywhere, at any time. 

Please pass this link along to any teachers you know.

Enjoy!