Lindel Hart’s interest in acting extends back into his childhood. He performed in his first musical (Leave it to Jane) at Fairmont State College in Fairmont, West Virginia, at the end of his sophomore year in high school. It wasn’t long before he was seeking out other opportunities to do theatre, landing roles in a community theatre production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and his senior class play, South Pacific.
He attended Carnegie Mellon University as a voice major and later pursued theatrical, as well as musical, endeavors. One of his favorite odd credits is Godzilla the Musical, an original (and illegal) adaptation of the Godzilla saga, which had a short run in Pittsburgh. It’s unclear if it was ever performed again. Lindel also developed his own experimental performance art pieces and collaborated on dance-theatre works with choreographer Mary Miller. Their adaptation of Charlotte Perkins-Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper was one of many critically lauded works for which Lindel contributed the script.
When Lindel moved to New York City in 1993, he quickly landed a spot as a go-go dancer in Penny Arcade‘s long-running one-woman show Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! After a year of performances at the famed Village Gate, Penny took the show on the road, and Lindel is pleased to have been part of the show in NYC and for various tours to Europe, first to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and then to London, Dublin, Cork, and the Vienna Festival.
at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 1993
Lindel took a break from performing that lasted more than a decade, but he returned to the stage in 2011 in a production of The Drowsy Chaperone and has continued to perform ever since. He has been in more traditional musicals and plays, as well as innovative immersive theatrical experiences, in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts.
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