"Angie Louise is a singer, songwriter, actress, and comedienne with fearsome chops." - City Arts Magazine

"A keen, clear, satirical eye... Ironic and idealistic... Substantial talent and invention." - DVDTalk.com

"A dynamic actor, handling comedy and near-tragedy with equal dexterity." - Seattle Times

"Sensational... Shows an emotional range most performers shy away from... Her instrument takes flight and you are mesmerized by her presence." - Seattle Gay News

Angie’s Bio

Singer, actor, writer and composer Angie Louise has been creating and performing in her chosen city of Seattle since the 1990s. She is best known for her work as longtime frontwoman and songwriter for Weimar Berlin-inspired rock band The Love Markets (“Irresistible” - Seattle Magazine) and its three critically acclaimed record releases: World of Your Dreams, Beauty Factory, and 2025’s Ship of Light. She’s also a member of Actors’ Equity with a long list of mainstage principal credits at nationally recognized theatres, including The 5th Avenue Theatre, Village Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, and Theatre Under the Stars. And as a writer, she’s served as both screenwriter and songwriter on the award-winning feature films Gory Gory Hallelujah and Ira Finkelstein’s Christmas, composed songs and music for Seattle Children’s Theatre’s “radically transformed” 2020 production of Snow White, and been a past winner of the Academy of American Poets Prize.

Favorite theatrical roles for Angie include a few she’s gotten to revisit and repeat: Sally Bowles and Fraulein Kost in Cabaret, Molly in Unsinkable Molly Brown, Hattie in Allison Gregory & Steven Dietz’s beloved Go, Dog. Go! She’s also loved playing characters who are performers themselves, preferably washed-up ones: stripper Miss Electra in Gypsy (5th Avenue, alongside Judy Kaye); real-life vaudeville singer Elsie Campbell in Bootlegger (original cast); rock star Jesse Dove in Citizen Ruth (Balagan Theatre workshop directed by Tony nominee Dan Knechtges); best of all, long-suffering magician’s assistant The Incomparable Rosalie in the seldom-produced Carnival, which gave Angie the chance to get cut in half by a magician, ride around onstage in a cart pulled by a pony, and share scenes with dogs, rabbits, and boa constrictors. She’s also loved any role where she gets to play an instrument, whether that’s accompanying herself on accordion as a Nazi prostitute in Cabaret (5th Avenue, TUTS, regional tour) or punishing the piano Jerry Lee Lewis-style as the beehived housewife and unlikely rocker Vi Petty in Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (5th Avenue).

Angie’s work as a singer-songwriter with The Love Markets brings her performer world and her writer world together, letting her dream up stories and imagine characters’ worlds as a writer and then interpret and inhabit them through the direct physical and emotional medium of musical performance. The Love Markets’ debut release World of Your Dreams managed to contain both a risque, double-entendre-stuffed ode to wiener schnitzel and a soaring elegy for the dead. Follow-up record Beauty Factory investigated the machinery of modern life, armed with rollicking grooves and a seductively sinister opening lyric ("Step up, miss! Here in the factory, the gates are always open... Don’t resist! To be made whole again, you’ll first need to be broken”). On May 29, 2025, the Love Markets released their third and most ambitious record, Ship of Light, taking listeners on an epic musical journey full of love, revolution, monsters stomping things, joyrides, beatdowns, small-town heroines, high school vampires, and billionaires in space. On June 28, Angie and the band performed Ship of Light live at a record release celebration at The Royal Room. The Love Markets’ music is available at all major online music retailers and streaming platforms. LISTEN HERE

Awards for Angie’s Work

Writing: Academy of American Poets Prize; Quinn Fellowship for Poetry; two-time Trelease Fiction Award; Illini Poetry Prize; Pape Award.

Performance: Backstage West Critic's Choice, Best Actress in a Musical (Carnival, Village Theatre). Radio V/O: Best Local Commercial.

Film: Best Feature (Fantasy) at Shockerfest (LA) and Bravest Film Award from Gus Van Sant at BendFilm (Gory Gory Hallelujah, screenwriter, actor, songwriter); Best Comedy at Newport Beach Film Festival and Best of the Fest at SIFF (Ira Finkelstein’s Christmas, co-screenwriter, actor, songwriter); Best Short at Women In Film Awards (Circus of Infinity, co-screenwriter, actor, songwriter).