Marika
Engelhardt
Actress-Writer
Recently starred in Fever Dreams by Jeffrey Lieber at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival.
Reviews here and here
Broadway World
"Marika Engelhardt is the heart and soul of the production, with her manic need for sexual fulfillment coupled, inevitably, with grief and guilt at what she has done to both of the men in her life."
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The Hollywood Reporter
"Engelhardt deserves special mention as Carolyn’s deliciously unhinged mother, who is driven to tragicomic extremes of sexual and sartorial behavior by the loss of a daughter she half loves and half envies."
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Entertainment Tonight Online top performances of Tribeca
"...it's Marika Engelhardt -- a working actress seen in episodes of Easy, Empire and Chicago Med -- who really shines as a distraught music teacher and mother of the missing teen. Her performance is both funny and painful to watch."
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Raised between Oregon, Germany, and France, Marika has always been fascinated by different cultures and characters. After studying English at Lewis and Clark College and teaching English for a year in Paris, she received her MFA in acting at DePaul University. She is an actress, teacher, and writer. Acting credits include Law and Order SVU, NCIS, Empire, The Chi, Easy on Netflix, and recurring roles on Amazon's Patriot and the new Amazon series Paper Girls. Her starring role in the feature film Knives and Skin, which premiered at the the Berlin and Tribeca film festivals, was singled out as one of the "Top Ten Performances of Tribeca 2019" by Entertainment Tonight. She is an adjunct Professor at the DePaul Theatre School and an her essay, "And What if Lolita Had a Pen", was recently published by Expat Press.
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Agent
Stewart Talent Chicago
Sam Samuelson
The Wrigley Building
400 N. Michigan Avenue. Suite 700
Chicago, IL 60611
312 943 3131
Manager
The Boothe Group
Stevie Boothe
917 397 2869