Lindsay Halladay, AKA The Lindz, has been writing and performing her original material since a young age as an outlet for a difficult adolescence. Her roots grew out of the Rutgers University poetry phenom, Verbal Mayhem, and quickly began touring the nation as a founding member of the group Mayhem Poets teaching poetry to students of all levels. With subject matter ranging from cereal to sex appeal, rhythm to arrhythmias, books, bombs, race relations and everything in- between, her work is a silly, insightful, nostalgic, and downright riotous combo of old skool soul, hip-hop and poetic storytelling. The Lindz has been touted nationwide as the voice of a new generation.
This Poetess and her insatiably contagious spoken word, gained momentum at NYC slam hotspots: The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Bowery Poetry Club, and Bar 13 in NYC, but after slam success, craved new non- competitive forms for her work. She has been featured at venues across the country including The Arnoff Center for the Arts, Capital Center for the Arts, NJPAC, countless universities and colleges, the Tony-Award winning Crossroads Theater, where she won an Emerging Artist’s Award and the multi-award winning West Hollywood Book Fair. The Lindz is featured in the award-winning hip-hop documentary Graffiti Verite, NBC’s “Your LA”, Stevie Wonder’s 102.3FM Spoken Word Wednesday’s and Ziddio’s Facebook Diaries airing on Comcast On-Demand.
She has performed sold-out shows for The LA Women’s Theater Festival for several years running. And in 2008 alone, The Lindz partnered with Declare Yourself, a non-partisan voting initiative founded by Norman Lear; contributed her poem “Three Words” to the indie film Hittin’ the Bricks, and was nominated for the Future Aesthetics Artist Regrant (FAAR) through The Ford Foundation and The Hip- Hop Theater Festival.
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