Lindsey Markel

Recent voiceover work

I can narrate your ad, book, video: lindseymarkel@gmail.com

 

Innovation at Illinois

University of Illinois

Saints Row (2022)

Barb / Character voices

Homecoming at Illinois

University of Illinois

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Acting work

I love scenes that shift every night. I love being in heated familiar arguments and clear-eyed monologues and quiet scenes where barely anyone speaks and loud mayhem with slamming doors. I love quick changes barely offstage and when stage lights look like sunlight and I love the sound of the audience quieting when the play begins and I love all of it, all of it. 

Film acting

Recent onstage acting

2022

  • Paul in 10 out of 12 by Anne Washburn / Parkland Theatre (Feb. 2022)

2020

  • Marjorie in The Moors by Jen Silverman / Station Theatre

2019

  • Pony in The Realistic Joneses by Will Eno / Station Theatre

  • Nina in Stupid Fucking Bird by Aaron Posner / Station Theatre

  • Emmy Helmer in A Doll’s House, Part 2 by Lucas Hnath / Station Theatre

2018

  • Grace Kiefaber in Interior: Panic by Tennessee Williams (staged reading) / Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis

  • Karen Weston in August: Osage County by Tracy Letts / Station Theatre

2016

  • Aimee in The Night Alive by Conor McPherson / Station Theatre

  • Director, The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord by Scott Carter / Station Theatre

2014

  • Alex in A Kid Like Jake by Daniel Pearle / Station Theatre

  • Nina in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang / Station Theatre

Writing

I write a newsletter about creative growth and staying tender.

I've written non-fiction about 90s LiveJournal in The Toast and about loving a sibling with drug addiction in The Rumpus. I've written fiction published in places like Little Fiction, WhiskeyPaper, Sundog Lit, and Hobart.

I have an MFA from Lesley University and I first studied fiction at an Iowa Writers Workshop summer residency.

Essays

Short stories

* Nominated for 2013 storySouth Million Writers Award
** Wigleaf’s Top 50 for 2014 longlist
*** Nominated for a Pushcart Prize

Hi hi hi

I was born in 1983. I grew up with my parents and little brother on a corn and soybean farm in rural Illinois. 

I loved reading in the grass and watching the trees. I was a member of a small theatre where kids learned to put on theatre by doing Shakespeare and ancient Greek plays. I loved the internet. I loved driving fast in the country with the windows down and all the gravel dust swirling in.

I still love all the same things. I still get onstage to do Shakespeare. Still stay up late to read. Still roll down all the windows. 

I make good Spotify playlists every month if you want to listen. 

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