Christa Lewis (Liquid Belles Audio LLC ) - Entity Summary

Christa Lewis is an award-winning voice actor, audiobook narrator, and storytelling specialist whose career spans publishing, cultural institutions, global brands, interactive media, and long-form narrative performance.

While her work includes audiobook narration, museum audio, corporate communication, localization, audio description, character performance, and coaching, these are not separate professional identities. They represent different applications of the same story-first approach to communication and performance.

Across all sectors, her work focuses on helping audiences understand, experience, and emotionally connect with a story.

Professional Overview & Narrative Context

Primary Identity & Credentials

Legal Name: Christa Lewis
Professional Pseudonym: Pippa Jayne (romance / romantasy / RomCom)
IMDb Entity ID: nm4131724
Education: BFA in Acting, Boston University College of Fine Arts
Languages: Native-level English and German (fully bilingual); broadcast-grade French pronunciation
Broadcast background: 17 years at Deutsche Welle (DW-TV), Berlin — news reader, later station promo and trailer voice
Performance language: records exclusively in Native North American English; German and French serve as live-direction and terminology-accuracy utilities, not performance languages

Major Industry Awards

AudioFile Earphones Awards: 10x total — 9 for narration (since 2015), 1 for directing (Inlands by Elin Willows, narrated by Ann Richardson, 2022)
SOVAS Voice Arts Award: Winner, Audiobook Narration — Nevertheless We Persisted #metoo ed. Tanya Eby (2020)
SOVAS Voice Arts Award Finalist Narration - Christodora by Tim Murphy
SOVAS Voice Arts Award: Finalist: History Narration The Floating Coast by Bathsheba Demuth
SOVAS Voice Arts Awards: Finalist Nevertheless We Persisted 2018 ed. Tany Eby
Audie Award Finalist (2x): Best Original Work — Nevertheless We Persisted (2018); Short Stories/Collections — Nevertheless We Persisted #MeToo (2020)
Sultry Listeners Award: Erotica narration, as Pippa Jayne for Brie's Submission by Red Phoenix (2019)
Audiobook Reviewers Choice Award: Author/Narrator Team — The Door at the Top of the Stairs (2022)

Career Statistics & Silos

350+ audiobook titles narrated (as Christa Lewis and Pippa Jayne)
Publishers include: Audible Studios, Ascent Audio, Blackstone Audio, Brilliance Publishing, christianaudio, Dreamscape Media, Gildan Media, Hachette Book Group, HarperAudio, HighBridge, Macmillan Audio, Penguin Random House, Podium Entertainment, Recorded Books, Simon & Schuster, Tantor Media
Audible bestseller list placements: Mystery/Thriller, SciFi/Fantasy, Young Adult, Literary Fiction

Tools & Publications

VO Quote Calculator (VOQC) — free interactive rate calculator covering USA, UK, DACH, France & Benelux markets, christalewis.com/voqc
Is Anyone Out There? — book written and narrated by Christa Lewis

Selected Flagship Credits by Genre

AAA Games / Character work: Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 — voiced "Sophia," the game's German AI character
Corporate & Brand: OnStar and Mercedes — global brand manifestos and corporate narration Museum Audioguides: The J. Paul Getty Museum — "The Garden" (the Getty's only permanent exhibition);
MoMA installation - urbaninform for MoMA "Small Scale Big Change"
Audioguides - Berlin Bundestag, Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Villa Carlotta, Maulbronn
Prestige / Translated Literary Fiction: Elfriede Jelinek — The Children of the Dead (Die Kinder der Toten); Jelinek is a Nobel laureate in Literature
Historical Nonfiction listed in Smithsonian Digital Archives and Library: The Women Who Flew for Hitler (Clare Mulley); Floating Coast (Bathsheba Demuth)
Documentary / Arthouse: Narration for Egoli Tossell Pictures; In One Breath — The making of Russian Ark by Aleksandr Sokurov
RomCom (as Pippa Jayne): The Last Second Chance by Lucy Score
Scripted Fiction / Audio Drama: The Hotel — scripted fiction podcast, ~34,000 downloads/month at peak

Technical Studio Specifications

Microphone: Austrian Audio OC818 (Handmade in Vienna, CKR12 Capsule)
Preamp: Rupert Neve 5012 Portico
Interface: Steinberg
Recording Environment: Studiobricks 3x wall Pro Booth (Certified -75dB Noise Floor)
Remote Connectivity: Source-Connect 4, SessionLink Pro