Margaret Mikkelsen is a character actress and audiobook narrator based in Memphis, Tennessee, who trained at the Luna Stage Conservatory for five years. Originally from the Midwest, she specializes in bringing extraordinary depth to stories about ordinary women facing tough challenges. Roles include the troubled alcoholic Evy in Neil Simon's The Gingerbread Lady, and the torn nun Sister James in John Patrick Shanley's powerful Doubt. 

Theater

The Aftermath / Emerald Theatre Company (September 2022) Ruth (lead) Also directed.

Steel Magnolias / Bartlett Performing Arts Center (May 2020)
M’Lynn (lead) Canceled due to covid-19

Stories That Make Me Look Bad/ Playhouse on the Square
Self-written solo performance

The Gingerbread Lady / Nutley Little Theatre
Evy Meara (lead)

Doubt: a parable / The Strollers
Sister James (supporting)

Ignorance or Bliss? / Kicking and Swearing Festival, Hamilton Stage
Lori (lead)

Motherhood Out Loud/ InterACT Theatre Productions
Stepmother (supporting)

Broadway Bound / Nutley Little Theatre
Blanche (supporting)

Free/Grove Street Theater
Darlene (lead)

The Early Stages/Grove Street Theater
Diane (supporting)

Film

Audiobook Narration

Holier Than Thou/ Christopher Carver
Mom

72 Days / Dylan Lepre
Kassandra

Forbidden Fruit: An Alabama Abortion Story/ LJ Richey
Nurse Anna

Sunken Cities Capers Books 1-4 by Jeffrey A. Ballard

Gross Misbehavior and Wickedness: A Notorious Divorce in Early Twentieth-Century America by Jean Elson

Acting Can Be Murder by John Gaspard

Dying to Audition by John Gaspard

Fast, Cheap & Written that Way: Screenwriters on Writing for Low-Budget Movies by John Gaspard

True Evil by Julia Derek
(as Margo Michaels)

Television

Bluff City Law / NBC Universal
Fire in a Crowded Theater/Mark Polish
Rachel’s second chair