Understanding another person's world from within.
Selected stage and screen work, production photography, headshot, and acting resume.
I have acted since I was seven years old and trained across stage, screen, voice, movement, clown, and devised work.
Performance is where I encounter a story through another person’s needs, contradictions, and circumstances. It asks me to be specific, emotionally present, collaborative, and responsive to the world around me.
MFA in Acting · University of Southern California · Minneapolis local hire
Linds Esch
Actor · Minneapolis, Minnesota
Alto / mezzo-soprano · stage combat · movement · dialects
Acting Resume
Readable here for quick reference, with the formatted PDF available to download.
Film
- KEVIN
- Lead · USC SDA / Dir. Linds Esch
- While the Grass Grows
- Supporting Lead · USC SDA / Dir. Alex Prout, Ahmed Best
- Psyche
- Supporting · USC SDA / Dir. LeVonte Herbert, Ahmed Best
Commercial
- Best Buy Smart TV
- Employee · Best Buy Inc. / Dir. James Plesser
Theatre · Selected
- The Seagull
- Nina Zarechnaya · The Modern Rep
- Kitty & Georgiana: Christmas at Pemberley
- Mary · Lyric Arts Main Street Stage
- Weekend Warriors
- Jessie · USC
- Buried Child
- Halie · USC
- Wintertime
- Maria · USC
- Three Sisters
- Irina · USC
- Miss Julie: Freedom Summer
- Miss Julie · USC
- As You Like It
- Phoebe / Duchess Frederick · USC
- Romeo & Juliet
- Mercutio · Bard in the Quad
- Sense & Sensibility
- Elinor Dashwood · Oregon State
- Fun Home
- Medium Alison · Oregon Contemporary Theatre
Training
University of Southern California
MFA in Acting
Acting, voice, movement, stage combat, singing, clown, voiceover, writing, and directing.
Oregon State University
Minor in Theatre Arts
Special skills
Directing · Cycling · Rock climbing · Longboarding · Singing
Dialects: Southern American · Minnesotan · RP · Cockney · Italian
Selected performance work
A curated view of stage work across realism, heightened text, comedy, physical performance, and ensemble storytelling.
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Wintertime
Maria
Miss Julie: Freedom Summer
Miss Julie
As You Like It
Phoebe / Duchess Frederick
Weekend Warriors
Jessie
Romeo & Juliet
Mercutio
Commedia dell’Arte
Arlecchino
Fun Home
Medium Alison
The Taming
Katherine
Buried Child
Halie
Sense & Sensibility
Elinor Dashwood
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
Anne de Bourgh
Inherit the Wind
Rachel Brown
One Act
Hopper
James & the Giant Peach
Tour Guide / Old Man / Captain