Some voiceover just…
fills…
space.
And some makes people stop and actually listen.

I'm Marisha Tapera — a voice actor based in the DC area, working across commercial, audio drama, corporate and brand content, medical/pharmaceutical, audiobooks, gaming, and promo.

I bring warmth and attention to every collaboration. And I offer engaged, intelligent reads, the kind that earn trust quickly and hold attention without effort.

Credits include Delta Airlines, Comcast, Harper, Boehringer Ingelheim, Fidelity, Workday, Random House, National Academies, Prevnar, LEGO, Marriott, Ameriprise, Slitherine Games, and dozens more worldwide.

Let's make something worth hearing.

Featured work

Cognitive Effects of Schizophrenia
Winner at MAGICA Advertising Festival

LeasePlan brand documentary (excerpt)

CLEVERºFRANKE brand video

Marriott Bonvoy campaign

Viator tag

Cintas mnemonic (singing)

Columbia Threadneedle ad

Ameriprise campaign

S’virda in Stargate Timekeepers (game)

Peter Frampton concert promo

Self app campaign

Tufts Medicine campaign

**Best Narration winner, MAGICA Advertising Festival 2024**

2017 Voice Arts Award winner — **Voice Arts Award winner, Outstanding Narration Demo Reel, Best Voiceover**

2019 Voice Arts Award nominee — **Voice Arts Award nominee, Audiobook Narration – Self-help, Health & Wellness, Best Voiceover**

One Voice Awards USA 2025 nominee, Audio Drama Best Performance, Female

See studio specs and fiction credits

SEE MARISHA'S Résumé

Commercial demo by Jordan Reynolds • Corporate/e-learning demo by Anne Ganguzza • Documentary/in-show narration demo by JMC Demos/Thom Pinto • Interactive demo by Guy Cunningham/Big Mouth Voices • Political demo by Sound Nectar Studios

Credits and Clients

Marisha’s credits include works from Merck, American Express, Slitherine Games, Hachette Audio, Marriott Bonvoy, Ameriprise, Penguin Random House Audio, Electronic Arts, Schwab, Lowe’s, Estee Lauder, USAID, HarperAudio, Maryland Department of Health, WellWo, Schneider Electric, MedStar Health, City of New York, Quilted Northern, Biogen, Fidelis, EnglishAnyone.com, World Bank, American Honda, Computer History Museum, and Georgetown University, among many others.

I've hired Marisha multiple times to voice short films I directed for local nonprofit organizations. She really served as my go-to narrator whenever the creative demanded a warm, smooth, or soothing voice. She always hit her lines the first time, was receptive to direction, and was super easy to work with. Definitely would hire again.

—Steve Dorst, documentary filmmaker, director and producer

Marisha is a pleasure to work with. She takes direction excellently, and her pacing and delivery were perfect!

—Sean Daeley, voice actor and producer

Marisha Tapera did an amazing job as the producer and narrator, able to easily switch between scenes of suspense, scenes of action, and scenes of dialogue. … Marisha's voice is really clear and has a rich quality that makes it pleasant to listen to, and her performance was so good that I laughed at parts which brought out the humour, and felt my neck hairs prickle at the emotional highpoints.

—Karl Drinkwater, author

We love your voice, you are very professional and working with you is fantastic. You make it all very simple.

—Susana Acua, producer

Tapera…infuses a spirit of [camaraderie] among the NeoG shipmates that would be the envy of any crew.

—AudioFile review of HarperAudio’s “A Pale Light in the Black”

Studio

Studiobricks One soundproof booth • Neumann TLM 102 microphone • UA Apollo Twin Duo interface • Focal Listen pro closed-back headphones • Mac Studio • MacBook Air • Twisted Wave/Adobe Audition DAW • Source-Connect 4 and Standard • ipDTL/Skype/Zoom/others on request • cloud and external file backups • Studio audio sample available on request

Narrative projects, audio drama, and film

IMDb

Fiction podcast narration credits:

Quarantine Theater Presents:

My Side of the Mountain #3;

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea #2;

Going Postal #4

Obsidian Podcast Kilimanjaro series: Bodies of Matter

Selected scripted podcast credits:

1944 the Podcast: “Jimmy”

Seminar episode 94, Chrysalis: “Mother”

Obsidian Podcast Off the Grid: “Narrator/AI”

Wuthering Heights: “Ellen”

Morpheus One: “President Magdelena Tobago”

Amber and the Hidden City podcast: “The Margara”

Jane Eyre: “Martha Abbott”

Apollyon: “Reese Williams” (One Voice Award–Nominated Role)

You Said: (film, voice): “Mom”

Vast Horizon series finale: “Dr. Nasha Okoro”

Rebel Girls app Sleep Story Julia Butterfly Hill: “Luna”

Rebel Girls app What About Anxiety? “Dr. Sarah Bellum”

Significant Deal: “Lauren Watts/Talisha Turner”

Dark Dice Shores of the Silver Thrum : “Eudaw Quit”

Click for more of Marisha's audiobook work, like Four Hundred Souls ed. by Kendi and Blain — **Selected Audiobook Credits**
Trusted by major publishers — Penguin Random House, Hachette, and HarperAudio/Harper Voyager — for directed, high-stakes ensemble narration alongside top-tier voices including Scott Brick, Bahni Turpin, and Hilary Huber, as well as solo lead narration across literary and genre fiction.
***Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition*** — Schomburg Center / Penguin Classics. Ensemble narration of the anthology that earned a starred review from *Library Journal*.
***Four Hundred Souls*** — Penguin Random House Audio. Audie Award–nominated ensemble production.
***Culprits: The Heist Was Just the Beginning*** — full-cast indie crime anthology (Polis Books) with Scott Brick, Hilary Huber, Ramon de Ocampo, and others. The source anthology was later adapted into the Disney+/Hulu series *Culprits*.
**K.B. Wagers' NeoG series** — Harper Voyager. Four-book space opera with deep, organic diversity woven through a sprawling character cast.
Short fiction & children's narration for Pinna, Listening Library, and Rebel Girls. **Find more of Marisha’s audiobook work on Libro.fm**

Contact

Direct: info@marishavoice.com

Representation

Vox Inc.
Tom Lawless
assistant@voxusa.net
323‑951‑4500

Go Voices
Josh Miller
Laura Adducci
info@GoVoices.com
303-623-2723

BigMouth Voices
Sarah McLeod
hello@bigmouthvoices.com
+64 21 411 228

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