Melissa Exelberth

Audio Description Performer

Biography

After some years working in TV and motion picture production, post and distribution – in multiple countries – I discovered I was better at telling stories than I was at producing them. So began the transition from behind the scenes to the VO booth. Learned Spanish, forgot French. Returned home to NYC where, for a while – while ramping up my VO work – I edited TV commercials, reported on traffic from 500 feet in the air, anchored news and told stories for radio and podcasts – before podcasts became a thing – trading in a small video edit suite for a smaller radio booth, an even smaller cabin of a 2-seater plane, with the doors held on with duct tape, because…who needs doors?  And now I stand in a small padded booth and tell stories to people who aren’t there.  In English and Spanish. Some of those stories can be found on Smithsonian Channel and some of their production partners; on multiple streaming services such as HBO Max, Netflix, Disney+ and others; as well as for organizations such as NATO, NOAA and NASA, the Nobel Museum, Daimler AG, One World Trade Center, IBM, AstraZeneca, just to name a few of the thousands of projects I’ve worked on over the years. I narrate TV documentaries, corporate brand anthems/image films and audio description for TV and film; tell stories for museums, corporations, scientific and medical institutions and others and voice commercials and other projects. The witch stole my broom in Oz, The Great and Powerful. I have a massive collection of cowboy boots. And I’m an unapologetic native New Yorker. Smart. Powerful. Quietly confident.® Connecting your audience to your content. Anthem reads to evil queens, medical to Nahuatl, science to natural history, entertainment to education, and from crime…to the divine ®

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Hear Melissa Exelberth on The ADNA Presents

  • The ADNA Presents Know Your Narrator Series: Melissa Exelberth

    Sep 21, 2021 · 16 min

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