Cynthia
Farrell

Singer | Narrator | Voice-Over Actor

Cynthia Farrell

Singer | Narrator | Voice-Over Actor

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ynthia Farrell has been a musical theater singer and recording artist all of her life. She has been performing off-Broadway since coming to New York to receive her BFA from NYU’s musical theater department. She has also created an award-winning career in audiobook narration, commercial voiceover and video game voiceover- she has developed a fan base for playing “Catalina” in the Grand Theft Auto game series. In her audiobook narration, she is known for her portrayal of strong female characters, and uses an always engaged, uniquely human delivery of language that is enhanced by her clear, strong, mellifluous singer’s tone and diction. Her voice work is in both English and Spanish, as she grew up speaking both languages- it has given her a unique niche as she doesn’t have an accent in either language. Cynthia has a large body of audiobook work ranging: Romance, Fantasy, Science-Fiction, Young Adult, Motivational & general non-fiction, and Crime drama. In addition to narrating for retail publishers and producers, she has recorded over 150 books for The Library of Congress, not listed here.

Cynthia Farrell has been a musical theater singer and recording artist all of her life. She has been performing off-Broadway since coming to New York to receive her BFA from NYU’s musical theater department. She has also created an award-winning career in audiobook narration, commercial voiceover and video game voiceover- she has developed a fan base for playing “Catalina” in the Grand Theft Auto game series. In her audiobook narration, she is known for her portrayal of strong female characters, and uses an always engaged, uniquely human delivery of language that is enhanced by her clear, strong, mellifluous singer’s tone and diction. Her voice work is in both English and Spanish, as she grew up speaking both languages- it has given her a unique niche as she doesn’t have an accent in either language. Cynthia has a large body of audiobook work ranging: Romance, Fantasy, Science-Fiction, Young Adult, Motivational & general non-fiction, and Crime drama. In addition to narrating for retail publishers and producers, she has recorded over 150 books for The Library of Congress, not listed here.

QUEEN OF BONES

Narrator Cynthia Farrell’s mellifluous and confident rendering of Cuban speech patterns alternating with perfectly colloquial American ones gives the listener a delicious sense of having been transplanted to Havana, a treat you couldn’t get from the page alone. In Dovalpage’s atmospheric tale, Juan Chiong returns home 20 years after barely surviving his escape to Florida on a raft. He misses his old flame, Elsa, and has no idea that his best friend, Victor, is now Victoria, host of a prominent drag club. This is not the Cuba that Juan left behind…

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As a singer, Cynthia has also spent a part of her career working in her hometown of Los Angeles working with music legends such as Stevie Nicks and producer and now president of Blue Note Records’ Don Was.

Cynthia grew up listening to her father work with Chaka Khan, Stevie Wonder, and others in a time of funk and R&B, and learned how to record early on in his recording studio. Her father, Bob Farrell, just retired from his position as conductor and keyboard player for The Temptations. While she never met him, Cynthia’s grandfather was Roger Leonard, Hollywood director/producer of the great pieces of film Rin Tin Tin, Naked City and Route 66. Cynthia is working on a new album coming out in 2020 of original songs. Please visit this site for updates as to shows and releases.

D.A.W. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile October 2019, Portland, Maine

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B.G. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine.

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Featured Spotlight: ©AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

Talking with Cynthia Farrell
Mexican-American narrator and singer Cynthia Farrell says, “Artists are special people. Audiobooks give us an arena to move other people. I hope that my listeners are taken on an emotional and intellectual ride that is like no other–a ride of the mind and heart without the visuals.”

Farrell began narrating seven years ago when an agent asked her to narrate M.A. Lawson’s thriller ROSARITO BEACH. “They needed someone who spoke both English and Spanish,” she says. At the time, Farrell loved to read but was not an audiobook listener. Happily, years of experience as a Broadway singer and doing commercial voice-overs helped prepare her. Since then, she’s narrated more than 150 audiobooks, both commercial titles as well as titles for the Library of Congress’s National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled.

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Cynthia is represented by

Innovative Artists

(212) 253-6900

Commercial VO:

Allan Duncan

Allan.Duncan@IANY.Com (English & Spanish)

Debra Sherry (English)

Debra.Sherry@IANY.Com

Audiobooks/Promo:

Shari Hoffman

Shari.Hoffman@IANY.Com

On Camera:

Mickey Shera

Mickey.Shera@IANY.Com

Upcoming Shows

PRISM

Thursday, January 9th | 7:00 PM

For tickets: The Triad NYC
158 West 72nd Street
New York, NY 10024

Carlos Cuevas, Keyboard
Michael O’Brien, Bass

This show is Cynthia Farrell’s fourth cabaret show, this time produced by accomplished songwriter and cabaret scene player Tom Toce. Prisms is about the way the days and events of our lives are truly seen by the perspectives we have at any given moment. Which color of the prism we chose to look through at any given time, dictates the “color”, or way in which we approach any situation, relationship, or emotion.

In essence, life is about perspective really, much less about actual fact or incident- in our view. The songs in the show represent varying perspectives of life and relationship when viewed through a particular prism- there are different ages among us collaborators in our show- a prism is created there. There are many life events in Cynthia’s life, that lead to her view today, tomorrow, five minutes from now, that when viewed through another part of her “prism” will look and feel differently.

The show will paint pictures that we can all identify with, some fictional, some non-fiction from Cynthia and Tom’s lives, that take the audience on an exciting, profound sometimes funny ride that leave people wondering about fact and fiction and perspective, we hope, in their own lives.

Material ranges from stunning songs written by Tom, some recorded by iconic singers in the cabaret and theater world, to 60’s folk pop, theater songs, 80’s pop, and even a latin number. Fernanda Douglas will be the musical director and pianist and virtuoso Sean Harkness joins on guitar bringing the show to a dynamic level that is unmatched.

As a recording artist Cynthia is working on an original music album and is represented by Glen Parrish, at Azoff, Geary, Paul, Smith Management in L.A.

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