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

“Always amazing… Mesmerizing work… Her songs more than hold their own with the big names.” - TalkinBroadway

"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 is also a member of Actors’ Equity and veteran musical theatre actor with a long list of principal roles at nationally recognized theatres including The 5th Avenue Theatre, Village Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, and Theatre Under the Stars. As a writer, Angie’s awards and credits include an Academy of American Poets Prize; original songs and music for productions at Seattle Children’s Theatre, Sandbox Radio, 14/48 Theatre Fest, and Seattle LGBT Film Festival; and the feature film screenplays for cult-hit satire Gory Gory Hallelujah and family comedy Ira Finkelstein’s Christmas. Both films showcased songs written by Angie and featured her in a principal acting role; both films garnered festival prizes followed by international distribution. Angie’s most recent accomplishment as a writer-performer is her just-released third record with the Love Markets: Ship of Light, a vessel carrying luminous songs about risk, hope, longing, misadventure, monsters stomping things, and billionaires in space. LISTEN HERE

Angie’s favorite productions as a musical theatre actor have included multiple local, regional, and touring productions of Cabaret (Sally Bowles, Fraulein Kost), two different stints as Molly in Unsinkable Molly Brown, and over two hundred performances as Hattie in Allison Gregory & Steven Dietz’s beloved Go, Dog. Go! She’s had a soft spot for 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, Village); 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 (Village), which gave her 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. And she’s always keen to play any role where she gets to play an instrument, whether accompanying herself on accordion as a Nazi prostitute in Cabaret (5th Avenue, TUTS, regional tour) or punishing the piano Jerry Lee Lewis-style as beehived housewife and unlikely rocker Vi Petty in Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (5th Avenue).

Angie’s work 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. Inspired by the artists of Weimar Berlin, the Love Markets’ debut album World of Your Dreams lured fans down red-lit alleys with its potent brew of political bite and gleeful escapism, managing to include both a risque 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 The Love Markets’ just-released third record, Ship of Light, Angie takes listeners on an epic musical journey of love and revolution, shining a light on our dark and stormy waters and keeping an eye out for the shape of hopeful shores. Ship of Light was released May 29, 2025 and is available alongside The Love Markets’ other records 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).