Mara Finerty

Voice Actor

Confident ~ Sophisticated ~ Inviting

Smooth with a hint of smoke….

Clients include….

Hello Robin - Hamburg, Germany

Capgemini Invent @ Germany - Munich

Orpheo US - CDC Museum Audio Tour

Voquent - London, England/Glasgow, Scotland

Matt Willard Design, Cambridge, England

Learning Ally - Princeton, New Jersey

Video Narration for Capgemini/Invent Germany4Ukraine Project - PolitikAward Reel

Available on Audible here


Audiobooks

Audiobook Demos

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About Mara Finerty

Mara Finerty is an award-winning actor, singer and voice actor. Her work has included two companies of Les Miserables, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and has varied from Britten operas, to cabaret theatre and musicals, to leading roles in Shakespeare and Sondheim musicals.

She is the ultimate professional and through her extensive acting, VO and vocal training, is able to shape her voice to bring voiceover scripts to life, with creativity, confidence and high quality.  She’s quick, makes strong acting choices and takes direction exceptionally well, able to turn on a dime and improvise with ease.

Her vocal age range is wide, from 28 - 60, and even wider with character work - her voice has been described as confident, warm, witty and inviting – that smooth Scotch whisky with a hint of smoke.  Kind of like her favorite Scotch, The Balvenie.

Mara began her career as a singer and added acting onstage and in film while in her early teens.  She trained at The American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, and has coached with some of the best coaches in the voiceover world.    

After the National Tour of Les Miserables, Mara transitioned to the business world, as an HR executive, employment attorney and executive coach in Fortune 100 companies in the financial services, biotech, tech and non-profit sectors.

Her executive, coaching and legal experience has given her a keen ability to bring intelligence, life and empathy to a wide variety of scripts and projects – she excels in narration work and has narrated several corporate strategy and culture videos for multinational clients in the U.S. and Europe.

She has added audiobooks to her work portfolio and has narrated books for Audible, Learning Ally and others.   

Mara relishes the challenge of voicing something new or different in her work and would love to work with you on your next project!

Mara’s focus upon providing quality work and exceeding client expectations is second to none. She is a true VO professional who would be an asset to any project. When you need an intelligent voice to bring strong empathy and detailed focus to your project, look no further!
— Jim Edgar - Just Ask Jim VO
Fantastic work! Great communication and fast delivery.
— Hello Robin – Hamburg, Germany
Mara was very professional and accommodating as our recording session was not confirmed until last minute. The client was really happy with the outcome and greatly appreciated Mara’s flexibility due to difference in time-zones. Would be happy to recommend Mara for any future voiceover bookings!
— Lauren Bailey – Voquent
As an avid audiobook listener, I’m very picky about the narrators I choose for the books that I write and publish. When I wrote Bloom, it was a labor of love and finding the right narrator to accurately convey the message and the meaning of all of the things that my main character went through was very important to me. Mara did a wonderful job of bringing the characters to life and bringing out the correct tone and emotion that I intended when I wrote the book. I’m so pleased with her performance of Bloom and would love to work with her again if the opportunity arises in the future.
— Rebecca Benston (Robin Stone), Author & Publisher
At Orpheo we produce dozens of audio tours across our global offices every year in over 100 languages. We worked with Mara creating a long tour for the Center for Disease Control
Museum in Atlanta.
Mara proved to be a delight to work with. She listened carefully to the client’s needs paying
particular attention to difficult words and phrases. The result was feedback that needed only minor changes over a 2.5 hour tour.
Ms. Finerty carefully analyzed each paragraph asking questions before spending time
recording resulting in much less downtime. She was always on time and produced a
wonderful product that both we and the CDC Museum are proud of.
At all times she was prompt, diligent, accurate and an overall joy to work with.
— Myron Baer - Orpheo USA/Canada

San Francisco

Cal Grant

Cal@JETalent.com

Representation

Minneapolis 

Amy Oppegaard

Amy@Wehmann.com

Offering VO Services for:

  • Commercial

  • Corporate Narration

  • Museum and Audio Tours

  • Animation and Toys

  • Documentary Narration

  • eLearning/Explainers

  • Live Announce/VOG

  • Audiobooks

  • Guided Meditation

VO and Acting Training:

  • Voice One with Sally Clawson, Jim Edgar, Pam Lorence, Melissa Hutchinson, Jeff Howell, Bob Bergen, Terry Borland, Steve Pogatch, Gavin Hammon, Ned Locke, Jonathan Saul

  • VO Atlanta: Promos with Jeff Howell and Harry Dunn, Audiobooks with Hillary Huber

  • Private Coaching: Mary Lynn Wissner, Jeff Howell, Sally Clawson, Tom Chantler and Carol Monda

  • B.A. Dramatic Arts, U.C. Berkeley (Go Bears!)

  • American Conservatory Theater

  • Berkeley Repertory Theater

  • Member of AEA

  • SAG-AFTRA - E (Must Join)

Voice Print

  • Warm

  • Confident

  • Classy

  • Sexy

  • Witty

  • Inteliigent

  • Sophisticated

  • Approachable

  • Inviting

Age Range

  • 28 - 60

Accents and Character Voices

  • American Neutral

  • Authentic Irish

  • American Regional: Various Southern, Eastern and Western drawls, NY/Bronx/Brooklyn

  • Characters: ditzy female, young girl, Valley Girl, evil woman, caricature Russian, sexy-smooth villain, AI voice, quirky/peppy female.

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Studio and Recording Capabilities

Mic

Rode NT1

Condenser Mic

Rode NTG1

Shotgun Mic

Interface

SSL 2

DAW

Twisted Wave

Hardware

MacBook Pro 2021

I record and edit in my Studiobricks VO One Plus broadcast-quality studio, soundproofed and treated for optimal recording results, using 24bit 48k resolution to provide clients with professional, high quality audio files that meet client specs, on time and at a competitive rate.

My studio is equipped to do remote direction sessions with SourceConnect Standard, Skype and Zoom.

Recording Booth

Studiobricks One Plus

VO Edition Booth

Remote Direction

Source-Connect

Zoom

Skype

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