Dan Zitt is Senior Vice President of Content Production for Penguin Random House Audio, and he has spent his entire 27-year career in the audiobook industry. Dan has been the creative catalyst for over 2,000 audio productions, collaborating with people like Barack and Michelle Obama, Bill Clinton, Bono, the Beastie Boys, Dolly Parton, Rick Rubin, and other notable celebrities, public figures, and award-winning actors. More than 20 of his recordings have been nominated for Grammy Awards, with former President Bill Clinton’s autobiography My Life, Carrie Fisher’s The Princess Diarist, and Michelle Obama’s memoir Becoming all winning the award for Best Spoken Word Album.

He is also the founder of Penguin Random House Audio’s casting website, Ahab Talent. This site was developed to create opportunity for actors and creators around the world, expanding access to underrepresented and BIPOC communities of actors hoping to break into the audiobook industry.