Unity | Podium Audio

By: Elly Bangs

Performed by: Adenrele Ojo, James Fouhey, Karen Chilton, Kevin Kenerly, Steven Brand

Released: February 22, 2022

Language: English

Format: Multi-cast

Duration: 10 hr, 58 min

Danae is not only herself. She is concealing a connection to a grieving collective inside of her body.
But while she labors as a tech servant in the dangerous underwater enclave of Bloom City, her fractured self cannot mend. In a desperate escape, Danae and her lover, Naoto, hire the enigmatic ex-mercenary Alexei to guide them out of the imploding city.
But for Danae to reunify, the three new fugitives will have to flee across the otherworldly beauty of the post-apocalyptic Southwest. Meanwhile, Danae’s warlord enemy, the Duke, and a strange new foe, the Borrower, already seek them at any price.
Evoking the gritty cyberpunk of Mad Max and the fluid idealism of Sense8, Unity is a spectacular new re-envisioning of humanity. Breakout author Elly Bangs has created an expressive, philosophical science-fiction thriller that expands upon consciousness itself.

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Adenrele Ojo

**Adenrele Ojo **is a multi-AUDIE Award winner, has received several Earphone Awards and was one of Audiofile’s Best Voices of the Year 2015. She is a wearer of many creative hats: actress, audiobook narrator, producer and photographer.  Adenrele is a professional actor and has performed in such plays as: August Wilson’s **_Jitney _**and **_Joe Turner’s Come and Gone _**(nominated for an **L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Featured Actress**)**_ _**and **_The Ballad of Emmett Till_** (winner of the **2010 L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Award & the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Best Ensemble) **both at The Fountain Theatre. Some of her film credits include **_Family_**, **_ELEVATE_ **and** **Lifetime’s **_Within_**; and her very own, **_Bathroom Vanities_**, a don’t-judge-a-book-by-it’s-cover comedy about one woman’s unforgettable experience in a ladies’ bathroom, which she starred, co-wrote and produced.  Ojo's many audiobooks include:** Stacey Abrams’s, **While Justice Sleeps**, **The Premonition** by Michael Lewis, **The Queen: Aretha Franklin** by Mikal Gilmore,** The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America **by Marcus J. Moore, **In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of Alice Walker’s Masterpiece** by Salamishah Tillet, **The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois (An Oprah’s Book Club Novel) **by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, **Billions and Billions **by Carl Sagan, **Black Futures** by Kimberly Drew & Jenna Wortham **and the multi-cast titles, Four Hundred Souls **edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain **and The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story **by Nikole Hannah-Jones**. ** **When she is not recording, you can sometimes find her directing authors, celebrity actors and other audiobook narrators.

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James Fouhey

James is an Earphone, IPPY, and Audie award winning narrator who has recorded more than 400 audiobooks across a wide variety of genres. These include everything from beloved children’s series like _Pete the Cat_, to important works of non-fiction such as _American Prison_, to voicing a romantic role in _Run, Rose, Run_ alongside Dolly Parton in her recent collaboration with James Patterson_. _He is also the voice of Geoff Thomasen in the award winning sci-fi audio drama, "MarsFall" which has received millions of downloads. James' regional and Off-Broadway theatre credits most notably include originating the role of Cedric in _Off-Broadway's Puffs: Or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic_ (New World Stages). His theatrical education includes a BFA from Boston University and classical training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.

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Karen Chilton

KAREN CHILTON is a New York-based Actor/Playwright/Librettist. An award-winning narrator/voiceover artist whose voice can be heard on dozens of audiobooks as well as tv/radio commercial campaigns, she is the recipient of the 2020 AUDIE Award for Non-Fiction Narration for GRACE WILL LEAD US HOME: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness by Jennifer Berry Hawes. In 2021, she received Audiofile Earphones Awards for her performances of THE PROPHETS by Robert Jones, Jr., THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DUBOIS by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers (Audible’s Best Audiobooks of 2021 list), EARTHA & KITT by Kitt Shapiro an Patricia Weiss Levy (Audiofile’s Best Audiobook 2021-Memoir), LEAVING BREEZY STREET by Brenda Myers- Powell, and MAKE GOOD THE PROMISES edited by Kinshasha Holman Conwill. Additionally, her narration of Annette Gordon-Reed’s ON JUNETEENTH made Audible’s Best Audiobooks of 2021 list. She is author of the critically-acclaimed biography HAZEL SCOTT: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist (University of Michigan Press); the audiobook version is narrated by the author. She holds a M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from NYU-Tisch School of the Arts. She is a member of SAG/AFTRA, Actors Equity Association (AEA), Association of the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), New York Women in Film & Television (NYWFT), and The Dramatists Guild. [www.KARENCHILTON.COM](www.KARENCHILTON.COM)

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Kevin Kenerly

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Steven Brand

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