JD Jackson (actor)
JD Jackson is an American audiobook narrator, actor, and theater professor. Jackson has won 26 Earphone Awards and 1 Audie Award. In 2020, AudioFile named him a Golden Voice Narrator and two years later Booklist named him a Voice of Choice Narrator.
Biography
Jackson received a Bachelor of Arts in Drama and Speech Communications from Dillard University in 1997. In 2000, he received a Master of Fine Arts in Theater Performance from Temple University.Awards and honors
Honors
In 2020, AudioFile inducted Jackson into their Golden Voice Hall of Fame.He also narrated two Pulitzer Prize-winning audiobooks, The Tradition by Jericho Brown and The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, as well as Carnegie Medal winner, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib.
| Year | Title | Honor | Ref. |
| 2005 | Battle of Jericho by Sharon M. Draper | Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults | |
| 2011 | Just Another Hero by Sharon Draper | AudioFile Best of Young Adult | |
| 2012 | Cemetery Road by Gar Anthony Haywood | AudioFile Best of Mystery & Suspense | |
| 2012 | Ghetto Cowboy by G. Neri | Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults | |
| 2012 | Ghetto Cowboy by G. Neri | Notable Children's Recordings | |
| 2012 | What It Was by George Pelecanos | AudioFile Best of Mystery & Suspense | |
| 2013 | Crow by Barbara Wright | AudioFile Best of Children | |
| 2013 | Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary by Walter Dean Myers | AudioFile Best of Young Adult | |
| 2014 | Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles America's First Black Paratroopers by Tanya Lee Stone | Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults | |
| 2014 | Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles America's First Black Paratroopers by Tanya Lee Stone | Notable Children's Recordings | |
| 2014 | Revolution by Deborah Wiles | Booklist Editors' Choice: Audio for Youth | |
| 2014 | Revolution by Deborah Wiles | Booklist Editor's Top of the List | |
| 2015 | Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad by Eric Foner | AudioFile Best of History | |
| 2015 | The Great War: Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War by Tanya Lee Stone, Marcus Sedgwick, David Almond, Timothée de Fombelle, A.L. Kennedy, Ursula Dubosarsky, Michael Morpurgo, John Boyne, Tracy Chevalier, Sheena Wilkinson, and Adèle Geras | School Library Journal | |
| 2015 | A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Lewis | Notable Children's Videos | |
| 2015 | The Madman of Piney Woods | Notable Children's Recordings | |
| 2015 | Revolution by Deborah Wiles | Notable Children's Recordings | |
| 2017 | Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke | AudioFile Best of Mystery & Suspense | |
| 2017 | Sting Like a Bee: Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971 by Leigh Montville | AudioFile Best of Biography & History | |
| 2019 | Heaven, My Home | AudioFile Best of Mystery & Suspense | |
| 2019 | Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds | AudioFile Best of Children & Family Listening | |
| 2020 | A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump by Lonnie G. Bunch III | AudioFile Best of Nonfiction & Culture | |
| 2020 | When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed | Booklist Editors' Choice: Youth Audio | |
| 2021 | The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones | Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Audio | |
| 2021 | Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain | AudioFile Best of History & Biography | |
| 2021 | His Truth is Marching On '' | AudioFile Best of History & Biography | |
| 2021 | Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds | Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults | |
| 2021 | The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Official Transcript,edited by Mark L. Levine, George C. McNamee, and Daniel Greenberg | Listen List | |
| 2021 | When Stars Are Scattered'' by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed | Notable Children's Recordings |