Macy Rodman — Acting | Biography, Movies & Career

Biography

Macy Rodman (born 1989) is an American singer-songwriter, comedian, podcaster, and performance artist. Rodman's style combines punk and rock with 90s inspired club-pop beats, eliciting comparisons to Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Sinéad O'Connor, Björk, Sia, Portishead, Madonna, Liz Phair, and Courtney Love. She has released three studio albums, The Lake (2017), Endless Kindness (2019), and Unbelievable Animals (2021).

Rodman was born in Juneau, Alaska in 1989 and moved to New York City at age 18 in 2008 to go to the Parsons School of Design. She later dropped out. Rodman is a transgender woman and started her transition shortly after moving to the city. She lives in Brooklyn, New York and was married in November 2024.

Rodman became involved in the Brooklyn drag scene after moving to New York through DJing and performing. She then began to host a weekly alternative drag show called Bathsalts. In 2014, Rodman designed the wigs, make up, and costumes for Femme Fatale Theatre's production of Oscar Wilde's Vera; or, The Nihilists. Rodman was featured on the cover of My Comrade, an underground magazine covering drag in June 2022.

Rodman released her debut EP, Help, in 2016. Her first two albums, The Lake and Endless Kindness, were released in 2017 and 2019 respectively, on Sweat Equity. She released two remix EPs, called Neovaginal Dilation Expansion Packs, in 2020 for her songs "Berlin" and "Vaseline". Rodman signed to Shamir's Accidental Popstar Records in 2021, and released her third studio album, Unbelievable Animals, the same year. Rodman wrote the songs for the album during the COVID-19 lockdown. The album consists of twelve songs written in the span of a month deals with heartbreak and pandemic anxiety and combines "radio-rock shine with dirt-punk roots, like the energy in a '90s nightclub", with "a dash of Ray of Light-esque experimental pop and Chromatica-style club bangers." In 2022, she produced Ysak's single "Crossroads." On March 4, 2022, Rodman released an EP of Unbelievable Animals remixes called Uncontrollable Flammables, featuring remixes from Ariel Zetina, False Witness, Veronica Electronica, Michete, Yufi, Jim Cannon, Penelopi, So Drove, and M Zavos. In 2023, she remixed Softee's song "Isn't Enough," and in 2024 she performed at Doll Invasion on Fire Island.

Rodman hosts the improvisational comedy podcast Nymphowars with Theda Hammel. In 2023, she appeared in Cole Escola's short film Our Home Out West.

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