Petrea Burchard is an actor, author, audiobook narrator, and voiceover artist. We met at a writer’s group we both belong to, when Petrea did a presentation on audiobooks. As someone who listens to audiobooks when I have time in-between listening to podcasts, I was already intrigued. But when she said she was the original English voice of Ryoko from Tenchi Muyo, she had me hooked.
Petrea has written two books, has narrated the Westwick Witches mystery series, and has done both stage and screen, among other things. We talk about all of this, and more.
Since I had also started getting into audio (and podcasts) in 2014, I decided I wanted to start a series of interviews with women in the community to discuss what it was like to identify as a woman in the geek community. This is the second of a series of interviews where I take an academic approach.
Sora and I met thanks to the same Facebook Sherlock fan group I met the previous geek girl interview, Supriya Limaye. In fact, I had also interviewed Sora in 2014, while we both were in London at the time. However, Sora asked that I re-interview her since so much time had passed.