Mara Finerty
Voice Actor
Confident ~ Sophisticated ~ Inviting
Commercial Narration Animation
Orpheo US - CDC Museum Audio Tours
Hello Robin - Hamburg, Germany
Copenhagen Business School - Denmark
3232 Music - San Francisco
Voquent - London, England
Matt Willard Design - Cambridge, England
Learning Ally - Princeton, New Jersey
Bloomberg News - Weekend Edition Narration
Sizzle Reel for Capgemini/Invent
Germany4Ukraine Project - PolitikAward Reel
Clients and Portfolio
Video Narration for 3232 Music
Del Sol Quartet - Angel Island Chamber Concert Series
Click here to view my acting resume
About Me
I truly love voice work - I consider it to be the purest form of acting: shaping sound and words to convey ideas, emotions and images. I believe the voice goes straight to a person’s heart and soul.
A San Francisco native, I now live in the Sonoma Valley with my rescue husky mix, Scout, (the Official Mara Finerty Voices Studio Assistant) and work out of my broadcast-quality recording studio in the small town of Kenwood. I enjoy the challenge of bringing voiceover scripts to life with creativity, confidence and professionalism. I’m quick, versatile and adept in many genres and styles, make strong acting choices, take direction exceptionally well and improvise with ease. Editing, mastering and processing are all done onsite.
I began my career as a singer, studied opera and classical voice and added theater, doing my first play at 11, and film acting while in my very early teens. Voices and accents - I’ve got lots!
After twenty years performing in the SF Bay Area, at the Edinburgh Fringe, and appearing in two companies of Les Miserables, including the national tour, I transitioned to the business world, as an HR executive, employment attorney and executive coach in the financial services, biotech, tech and non-profit sectors. My business experience, combined with my acting and singing training, all lends itself to my voiceover work, both in terms of being able to bring intelligence, clarity and empathy to a wide variety of scripts and projects, and in being the ultimate professional, getting the work done on time, to your spec and impeccably produced .
I would love to work with you on your next project - I’d be happy to provide you a complimentary sample or audition for your project. Please feel free to drop me a line through the form on this site, directly at mara@marafinertyvoices.com or give a call at 415-307-9299.
I look forward to meeting you and working on your next VO project!
Mr. Scout, the Official Greeter and Studio Assistant at Mara Finerty Voices
He makes sure the recording is done right and on time and always keeps things entertaining in the studio!
“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! ”
“Fantastic work! Great communication and fast delivery.”
“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!
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“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....”
“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.
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.”
San Francisco
Cal Grant
Cal@JETalent.com
Representation
Minneapolis
Amy Oppegaard
Amy@Wehmann.com
Studio and Recording Capabilities
I record and edit in my Studiobricks VO One Plus broadcast-quality studio, soundproofed and treated for optimal recording results to provide clients with professional, high quality audio files, on time and at a competitive rate.
I use Rode and Roswell mic, SSL2 interface, Twisted Wave DAW on a MacBook Pro.
My studio is equipped for remote sessions with Source-Connect Standard, Skype, Google Meet and Zoom.
Offering VO Services for:
Commercials
Corporate and Documentary Narration
Museum and Audio Tours
Animation and Toys
eLearning/Explainers
Live Announce/VOG
Audiobooks
VO and Acting Training:
Private Coaching with Jeff Howell, Mary Lynn Wissner, Carol Monda, Sally Clawson and Tom Chantler
Voice One: Jim Edgar, Pamela Lorence, Melissa Hutchinson, Jeff Howell, Bob Bergen, Terry Borland, Gavin Hammon, Ned Locke
B.A. Dramatic Arts - U.C. Berkeley
Acting training at American Conservatory Theater and Berkeley Repertory Theater
Accents and Character Voices:
American Neutral
Authentic Irish
British - various - RP and Scots
Slavic/Russian
American Regional: Various Southern, Eastern and Western drawls, NY/Bronx/Brooklyn
Characters: lots of ‘em, just ask!
