Michelle Reiss

Hi there! I’m Michelle Reiss (pronounced like the peanut butter cup), and I’m a professional voice actor. It’s my job to sound good so that you look good (y’know, for hiring me). I’m based in Las Vegas, Nevada, which is simultaneously a very cool and very hot place to live. I’m available to record from my broadcast-quality home studio here in Vegas, and I’m a drive away from LA. I've trained extensively in voice over at The Voice Actors Studio, where I’ve also served as a studio engineer for 5+ years, operating the sound board and recording workshop audio. In university I studied music, creative writing, and psychology, which means I’m awesome at finding the melodies in scripts, picking copy apart, and reading minds (just kidding on the last one). ​My soul is old, but my voice is young. I’ve been told by voice over coaches that my natural sound is “contemporary” and that I have a “millennial superpower,” which is a great power that I use with great responsibility. I’m a young millennial and talk like one, but my vocal age also dips down into Gen Z. And for character work, I can sound like kids–both girls and boys! Growing up, my dad always called my mom a cartoon (lovingly), so one day as an adult when someone called me “animated,” I knew I had finally become my mother. Character-heavy genres of VO, like animation and video games, are my favorites. That being said, I’m always ready to get into character no matter what genre of voice over I’m doing, from commercial to telephony and everything in between. Years ago after hearing the same voices over and over in my favorite video games and eventually putting names to those voices, I finally had the life-changing thought: “Wow, being a voice actor would be SO cool…” I never dreamed that when I moved from Virginia to Las Vegas that I would serendipitously land a few minutes away from a voice over training studio. Suddenly my voice acting pipe dream became a reality, and now here we are! When I’m not in the booth, you can catch me being a nerd-of-all-trades: watching D&D actual play shows, singing along to musicals, and of course my old standby, playing video games. My favorite games are RPGs and choice-based games where your decisions drive the narrative. I’m always on the lookout for a great narrative, including the one I’m writing with my own life. When we work together, I’ll help tell your story, with all the beautiful flavor that comes from my story.