Lindsey Newell

About Me

Well, hey there! Nice of you to drop by. I’m Lindsey Newell, your average Jack of All Trades, Master of All, LA-based actor. ... I know everybody says they can do it all, but I can actually do it all. (Except sports. Which I don’t count. So there!)

Aside from my main squeeze Acting, I write. Under my belt I have two live cabaret shows. (People laughed. So that’s a good sign, right?) I did stand up one time. But it wasn’t so much me telling jokes as it was me telling the story of my wedding afterparty which was itself a massive joke complete with cops and a crazy drunk girl. And then this one time - in 2014 - when the world wasn’t so ridiculous, I created an entire 10 episode webseries.

It’s surprising that I mentioned writing before singing since I came out of the womb wailing, haven’t stopped since, and have an equally fond love of doing just that. (Full disclosure, I’m that person. You know the one that is always singing something - gibberish or otherwise - especially if I’m not at all mindful of the people around me and the fact that they - unlike me - might really enjoy a little silence every now and then. Anyway. I sing. A lot. At least I know myself, right?) I have the great fortune to be part of a professional singing group, The Satin Dollz, traveling around the state and country performing music of the 1940s, and sometimes 20s. As we moved to more online content due to quarantine, I picked up the Ukulele and have been learning and performing new music to sing while accompanying myself on the Uke every Thursday since mid-March for my Satin Dollz baking live stream show, “Baking With Olivia”.

As a regular human, I enjoy staying active. I love to hike (Stough Canyon in Burbank is my favorite) and do yoga (down the street at Brand Park in Glendale is super peaceful) and dance in my kitchen when the right tune is playing on my stereo. I enjoy baking (hence the baking show) and cooking. And when I really want to escape it all, we head out to the beach or go camping for a weekend, though tragically those trips aren’t as frequent as I like. What I do frequently do with my spare time is watch reruns of The Golden Girls and The Office.

I’m the second of four prodigies of two liberal musicians (Conductor and Soprano) who live and work in a small town in Oklahoma. (You can imagine, yeah?) While more on the Sports Ball-rural side of the fence, Enid has a community theatre, dance schools, and music programs. These were my sanity and saving grace growing up. They nurtured my creativity and kept me active and engaged in everything artistic. It led me to attend summer intensives at the North Carolina School of the Arts and Oklahoma Arts Institute in acting as a teenager, obtain a BFA in acting from The University Of Oklahoma, and continue to pursue art and expression as a career in film, tv, theatre, and music. My parents exhibited to us four kids how to live a life with passion. Passion for the people you love, the art you create, and the job you do. If there’s one thing about me that people can agree on it’s that I’m passionate. Some men say that I’m intense or I’m insane. You want to be bored? I want to be entertained! So let me do my own thang! Oh yeah, I love Hamilton. … A Lot.

That’s me in a nutshell. A mighty big nutshell. But as nutshell sized as I’m going to get. You can get to know me more by following me on Instagram @lindseynewell29 and my Satin Dollz persona @satindoll_oliviaidol