Nicole Marcks
Los Angeles, California
Nicole Marks did improv in high school but took a detour for some years and went the classical actor route. Upon graduating from Juilliard’s Drama Division, Nicole played in gritty way off Broadway theaters and regionally, including Hudson Valley Shakespeare, St. Louis Rep Theatre, Indiana Rep and Portland Center Stage. Nicole moved to LA and re-fell in love with improv in the late nineties. She trained at The Groundlings while performing with a long form, genre specific improv troupe called Those Meddling Kids (TMK). Nicole studied, performed and taught at the now defunct but always awesome Bang Comedy Theater. Working in film and tv when she could, she developed the character of Famke Roumstead through an improv exercise with TMK. She made her performance debut as a sexologist in her one person show produced by the LAGLC and directed by Sue Hamilton for the LIT series called Sex Life: My Journey Through Booty. Famke went on to play at Bang for a year in an hour long show called Famke’s Monthly. She’s a much beloved $expert and life and death coach. Nicole moved to Park City in 2012 to raise her kiddo and continue to act and improvise. She plays with local groups Laughing Stock, Quick Wits and is a founding member and player in troupes Hot Toddy and Park City Improv. Nicole helps train medical students and Lawyers with patient/witness skills as well as people in the corporate environment through her applied improv company Triple I Creative with husband, Tom Shannon and fellow PC Improv performer, Nate Sears. Famke Roumstead gives live $exiners and is soon launching a web series.
2019 Workshop: “No Improvisor is an Island: Navigating the adventure of solo improvised play”
In this workshop long time improviser and creator of Famke Roumstead, Nicole Marcks, takes players on the intimate journey of how to improvise alone onstage. Marcks translates into workable skills for solo performance the improv methodologies of group mind, making your partner look good and ‘yes and’. This workshop will help harness fear into a positive lifeline where everything becomes your partner including yourself!
