Vocal Descriptors:
Authentic, Youthful, Confident, Warm, Friendly, Relatable
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Accents/Dialects: Thai, Chinese
Contact Sura Siu: sura@surasiu.com
Sura Siu – Tell a story, bring some light into the world.
Sura is a multi-nominated, award-winning narrator and voiceover talent. As a multi-lingual, second generation Asian American, Sura is committed to giving voice to diverse and marginalized narratives. She has not only worked with major publishing houses like Penguin Random House and Scholastic Audio, Sura’s voice has also represented major brands like Capital One, Starbucks, Trident, Swarovski, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble and many more.
In the political voiceover sphere, Sura has voiced campaigns that promote women’s rights, health and freedom, topics that she has extremely passionate about. Sura provides a relatable read that gives forth elements of a confident, youthful, trust that will resonate among Millennials and Gen Z audience.
Along with her political, narration and commercial work, Sura’s performances can also be heard in animations for Disney, Netflix and The Cartoon Network.
Sura offers directed recording sessions from her broadcast quality home studio.
Studio DetailsSura maintains a professional studio that is equipped with a double walled WhisperRoom sound isolation booth, Neumann TLM-103 microphone, Sennheiser MK-416 microphone, Universal Apollo Twin interface, Mogami Gold Cables and Adobe Audition Digital Audio Workstation.
Turnaround TimeEastern Standard Time (EST, GMT-5). Sura is a full-time voice talent and can offer a general 24 hour turnaround time and is readily available after normal business operating hours and for anything urgent or rush as needed.
Connection DetailsSura maintains a professional studio studio that is equipped with a Double Walled WhisperRoom sound isolation booth, Nuemann TLM-103 microphone, , Sennheiser MK-416 microphone, Universal Audio Apollo Twin interface and Adobe Audition digital workstation. She is available for live remote directed sessions via SourceConnect, ipDTL, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Session Link Pro, Skype and Zoom.
Sura Siu is a full-time, Asian American, bilingual, female voiceover talent from The Bronx, New York. While her parents are from Thailand, she is of blended Asian heritage (Thai, Chinese, Vietnamese and Japanese). Sura studied Thai classical drama and dance for over 15 years, spending her summers training at Silprakorn University in Bangkok Thailand. In college she studied electronic and technical design which led her to finding success as a consultant in the corporate tech environment.
As her career and family grew, Sura moved to New Jersey to accommodate her growing family’s needs. Despite a flourishing career in the corporate space, Sura’s love for performance led her back to training in acting once more and she enrolled for classes at HB Studio, in New York city. Fueled with purpose and determination, Sura set out to train with voiceover coaches in diverse genres – from audiobooks, commercial, corporate narration, medical narration to animation and video games.
At home, she transformed her home office into a professional voice studio, which houses a double walled WhisperRoom sound isolation booth. Sura also worked with several highly regarded sound engineers in the voiceover industry to ensure she not only had the best microphones and audio interfaces, but also the sound absorption and dampening to produce professional broadcast quality audio.
Sura always brings a compassionate empathy to her reads that perfectly balances with a blend of youthful trust, for a believable, authentic, conversational feel that clients and consumers are looking for. She has voiced for brands such as Spotify, Benevity, Accenture, Starbucks, Pfizer, Takeda, Dawn, Capital One, Volvo and HP.
Besides commercial work, Sura is also a multi nominated, multi award-winning audiobook narrator. She loves to breathes life into diverse characters from several genres, be it fantasy or contemporary coming-of-age stories. She has worked with publishers such as Simon and Schuster, Harper Collins, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, Hachette, and Blackstone.
When not in the studio recording, Sura enjoys yoga, Pilates, biking, reading, playing video games, watching animation and spending time with her family. (Especially, around a delicious meal!)