Lindel Hart has been writing and performing since he was a child. He sang and acted throughout high school before majoring in vocal performance at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and studying filmmaking at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. He worked as a freelance writer and contributed feature articles and arts reviews for In Pittsburgh and The New Art Examiner. In addition, he served as on-air film critic for WQED-FM’s weekly program, Sunday Arts Magazine, for several years. He directed and produced a short documentary film, Intimate Conversations, which has been shown in a variety of film festivals and exhibitions in the US and Europe, most notably the Cork Film Festival (Ireland) and the Leningrad International Non-Feature Film Festival (Soviet Union).
As a performer, Lindel has appeared in a wide variety of music and theatre productions, from singing backup vocals for Paul Anka to go-go dancing in Penny Arcade’s Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! to Ping Chong’s The Angels of Swedenborg.
His credits include traditional musicals and plays (The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Rocky Horror Show, Rope), experimental, experiential and site-specific immersive theatre (Godzilla the Musical, Deus Ex Machina, Sam’s Place, Before You Became Improbable, Stagehand, A Happening).
Lindel has also co-created dance/theatre pieces (The Yellow Wallpaper, Sowelu) and written short and full-length plays, fiction, poetry, and a currently unproduced screenplay.
Eggtooth Productions commissioned him to write and perform (as The Creature) a new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which premiered in an abandoned bank building in Greenfield, Massachusetts, in 2014 before being mounted at the Springfield (Massachusetts) Museums and the Academy of Music Theatre (Northampton, Massachusetts) and traveling to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Scotland) for a two-week run in 2015.
He is currently co-writing with Nicolette Blount the book of Savage, a new musical inspired by the life of Native American sharpshooter and vaudeville and silent film performer, Wanda Savage. The music from Savage was presented in concert at the New York Musical Festival in 2019. Songs from Savage were presented at 54 Below in New York City in September 2022 and more performances there are on the horizon!
