About
Emily Woo Zeller, SAG-AFTRA, rep. SBV Talent
Emily Woo Zeller is the voice of Panam Palmer in CYBERPUNK 2077. Other recent interactive credits include STARFIELD and THE LAST OF US PART 2. In the STAR WARS cannon, she is Dr. Aphra in the audio drama DR. APHRA and narrated in FROM A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.
Audiofile Magazine has given Emily the prestigious GOLDEN VOICE distinction for her work in audiobooks. In 15 years of audiobook narration, Emily has worked with all major publishers as well as with independent authors producing an audiobook for the first time. Together with Gabra Zackman, she has a production company (LoveBytesOriginals.com) that creates episodic, short-form audio romance and erotica stories with heart, heat, and humor.
She has narrated for Sci-Fi/Fantasy powerhouses such as Cixin Liu and Jeff Vandermeer and has been listed in the Best Audiobooks of the Year in 2021, 2018, 2015, and 2013 for her work on SIX CRIMSON CRANES by Elizabeth Lim, THE POPPY WAR by R.F. Kuang, THE LIFE-CHANGING MAGIC OF TIDYING UP by Marie Kondo, and GULP by Mary Roach. Other notable audio books include the LOVEBOAT, TAIPEI series by Abigail Wen, THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, NINTH STEP STATION by Fran Wilde, Malka Older, Curtis C. Chen, and Jacqueline Koyanagi, and THE HEROINE COMPLEX series by Sarah Kuhn.
Awards include:
2020 Independent Audiobook Awards Best Female Narrator and Best Nonfiction for KINTSUGI by Celine Santini
2019 SOVAS Voice Arts Award for REFLECTION by Elizabeth Lim
2018 AUDIE for FIRE ROAD by Kim Phuc Phan Thi, Ashley Wiersma
2015 SOVAS Voice Arts Award for THE LIFE-CHANGING MAGIC OF TIDYING UP by Marie Kondo
Over 25 Earphones Awards, with most recent including THE WATER OUTLAWS by S.L. Huang and THE DRAGON’S PROMISE by Elizabeth Lim.
2009 Tristen Award for Best Actress as Sally Bowles in CABARET, and the 2006 Roselyn E. Schneider Prize for Creative Achievement.
Her wide range of voiceover work has included extensive dubbing for film and television in Southeast Asia. Emily’s lifelong theater and dance work includes performance with Ellis Wood Dance, Dutch Kills Theater, FACT/SF, Facing East Dance and Music, Oracle Theater, and physical theater collective Lampazo Group. Emily holds a degree from the University of California, Berkeley in Dance and Performance Studies, with a minor in Nutritional Sciences. She is a certified yoga teacher and is passionate about wellness, mental health, and women’s health.
Emily is a coach on Narrator.Life and is also available for private voiceover coaching.
Emily Woo Zeller 
Best new/current female voice actor. Best.
Thanks for bringing Panam to life. She’s my crush in Cyberpunk.
I loved your character Panam in Cyberpunk. I hate that the story and more importantly the story line with Panam is over. Sighs… lol
Wow!!!!
Dear Ms Zeller, I just finished listening to your recording of Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen. I am an avid audiobook fan filling the 2 hour drive in my daily commute. Your recitation of Queen Lili’s memoirs is exquisite! It’s as if I were listening to that brilliant gentle woman herself! Through your voice I can see her calm and quiet manner yet fierce in her passion for her ancestral homeland. I just wanted to thank you so very much for this excellent recording! You did her a great honor!
You are a fantastic reader. Thank you
There’s NO denying Emily’s career is extensive and incredible. Just look at her resume’! Wow!
I may have heard her voice in a hundred different films and/or games and never realized it. I will say this, and I hope not to offend in any way, but as a straight male, I find her voice incredibly sexy. I’m no pervert. I despise pornography. But she has a voice for phone sex. REALLY! I absolutely loved Panam Palmer. Visually speaking, (as a fictional animated character) she is super sexy! As a character, if she were a real person, she is definitely the kind of woman I’d have fallen head over heels for. She’s strong, opinionated, has great moral direction, loyal, honest, and she’s a complete badass. What “man’s man wouldn’t want a gal like that as his love interest? Really. Now add Emily’s voice over the physical frame of Panam. You have a sexy gal with a perfectly complimentary voice to match, and voilà! The perfect woman! Bam! If only women today had the same beauty and strength of character to match….one could only dream…
you really put some anxiety in Panam. I love it so much!
Hello! I saw your coaching profile on narrator.life and wanted to inquired about potentially working with you as a coach. Please let me know if this is possible. Thank you very much.
Hi Griffin – Thanks for contacting me. I am available for coaching and we can discuss details in email. My email is emilywzeller@gmail.com. Please send me a message there and let me know what kind of experience you have with acting and voiceover and what you’re looking for at this point. My rate for private coaching is $150/hr, with some discount if you wanted to book a package of lessons.