The Historicals on the High Seas Cruise Crew
Joel Froomkin
Host and Creator
Joel is an Audie nominated, thirteen-time Earphones Award-Winning narrator of over 500 titles, with over 60,000 five-star Audible reviews. Historical Fiction and Classics are his greatest love – he has narrated for Lyndsay Sands, Amy Jarecki, Sheri Cobb South among others as well as titles by Dickens, Agatha Christie, Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilkie Collins and William Makepeace Thackaray.
He was the recipient of the 2020 Best Male Narrator Award at the Independent Audio Book Awards and the 2020 Best Humor Narration recipient at the Society of Voice Arts Awards (in addition to his five other SOVAS nominations). He is the recipient of two Audiobook Reviewer awards and was named the first member of the Narrator Hall of Fame and All-Time Favorite Narrator in the Goodreads M/M Reader’s Choice Awards. He also narrates LGBTQ material under the name Joel Leslie. Raised in the UK with American parents – and a popular dialect coach - he is able to switch between authentic British and American narration which has become his unique trademark. www.joelfroomkinaudio.com
Rich Najuch
Producer, Creator, and Travel Arrangements
Rich is the one you will be emailing, phoning, or texting with! All cruise and conference bookings will be handled by him.
Rich is an Accredited Cruise Counselor, a member of the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), and a registered cruise travel agent. Recently Rich produced the wildly successful Rainbow Readers Cruise for authors and readers, as well as Audiobooks at Sea, an audiobook narrator workshop at sea.
He is familiar with planning and executing events through his work as Executive Producer at The New Huntington Theater for 10 years, as Executive Assistant to the Dean of Columbia Business School, and a lifetime in the theater. When not booking cruise adventures, Rich is usually working at a sewing or embroidery machine.
www.cruisingwithrich.com