ABOUT MARIA

Maria Pendolino is an award-winning professional female voiceover actor. Maria has been a professional working actor for more than fifteen years, Maria’s vocal style is real, conversational, authentic, natural, friendly, relatable and sassy. Trained in musical theatre, film, television and voice, Maria’s delivery is youthful and on-trend – perfect to represent and speak to Millennials and Generation X. Accolades include winning the 2017 and 2018 Voice Arts Award for Best Voiceover Performance in the e-learning and consumer sales video categories. She was also nominated in the radio imaging category. Maria was also awarded the 40 Under 40 Award in 2020 by Business First Biz Journals. In 2020, she was nominated for a German Computer Game Award as part of the Prim Adventure Game team.

MARIA’S PROFESSIONAL STUDIO

Maria maintains a professional, broadcast-quality home studio. Her studio is equipped with state of the art audio equipment and offers all of the standard remote connectivity options including Source Connect, ISDN, ipDTL, Zoom, Google Hangouts and Phone Patch. Her studio technology includes:

• StudioBricks OnePlus Booth
• Neumann TLM-103 Microphone
• Sennheiser MKH-416 Shotgun Microphone
• Audient id14 Interface
• MacPro Editing Suite
• Mogami Gold Microphone Cables

MARIA’S PROJECTS

A national voice, Maria specializes in commercials for TV, radio and the web, corporate narration & e-learning/training narration, explainer and product videos, promos, in-show narration, character voices for animation and video games, telephone systems, radio imaging and more.

CELEBRITY REFERENCES

While not an impressionist, Maria is frequently called on to provide reads that voice match celebrity trends – reads in the style of women like Scarlett Johansson, Anna Kendrick, Tiny Fey, Emma Stone, Jennifer Lawrence, Mila Kunis, Melissa McCarthy, Janeane Garofalo, Ellie Kemper, Amy Poehler, Kate McKinnon and more.

VOICEOVER INITIATIVES

In 2019, Maria launched MillennialVoiceover.com – an initiative aimed at helping companies “speak millennial” and reach the coveted millennial purchasing demographic. Maria is also a seasoned political voiceover talent voicing creative for campaigns, candidates and mission-driven groups. She is currently listed at Blue Wave Voiceover.

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

Maria is a proud member of the Buffalo-Niagara Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), the Buffalo chapter of the American Advertising Federation (AAF) and World-Voices (WoVO).

FUN FACTS

Two fun facts about Maria: 1) She was on an episode of HGTV’s flagship series “House Hunters” with her husband Eric. The episode is called “Battle For A Basement In Buffalo.” 2) She came in second in the “Fastest Talking New Yorker Contest” at Madison Square Garden.

OTHER ACTING ENDEAVORS

Maria is also an accomplished on-camera actor and musical theatre performance. Check out some of Maria’s credits on IMDB here.