ABOUT

Performer, Creative, Educator, Changemaker — Can One Person Really Do All That?

As a matter of fact, yes! Socks Whitmore (they/them/theirs) is a Los Angeles-based singer, actor, voice over artist, lyricist-composer, writer, producer, and otherwise professional overachiever; in short, they’re a performer, composer, and storyteller rooted in voice and text.

Socks’ creative work as a creative musician and wordsmith spans from live performance to digital media to print, including audio dramas, narrative design for games, poetry, short fiction, op-eds, and more. They have been produced by New Musicals Inc., Overtone Industries, and Feminist Fairytales, and published by Translash Media, the American Composers Forum, Sappho Small Talk blog and Queer Quarterly magazine, among others. They specialize in book, lyrics, and music for original music theater, such as their work on Marrow (Original Vision Selection 2022), We Are Here (New Voices Project winner 2019), and Back to One: A Coming of Self Musical (CalArts 50th Anniversary Alumnx Showcase 2023).

A self-described “professional overachiever,” Socks likes to keep busy—if they’re not on stage, set, or their laptop, they can be found watching bad movies and amassing large amounts of socks. For those who are curious, they hold a BFA Performer-Composer degree from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) with minors in Digital Arts and Creative Writing.

Socks is pictured in a beige tanktop with black pants and blue striped socks with narwhals on them. They are sitting sideways on a stone platform with their left hand on their shoulder and looking to the left of the screen — Photo Credit: Levi Meir Clancy

Socks is pictured in a blue t-shirt, arms outstretched and smiling towards the sky — Photo Credit: Levi Meir Clancy

You can hear their VO skills across the internet in audio dramas (Georgie Romero Is Done For, The Sheridan Tapes, Life with Leo(h)), video games (Detour Bus, Cryptid Crew, Georgia), audiobooks (the Narwhal & Jelly series, This Is Our Rainbow), and over 20 different animated shorts. They’ve originated roles on stage in productions like the immersive show Stardust, the ballet operetta Children Cannot Sleep, and the new musical The Bully Problem, as well as their own original works, and on screen they’re known for their performances in The Magical Christmas Tree and A Color Without Color. On fancier occasions, they’ve performed in renowned spaces such as the Grand Ole Opry, Carnegie Hall, and the Sydney Opera House.

And this person is named… Socks?

It would certainly seem so! Pretty neat, huh? On top of that, Socks is an accessibility advocate and emotional literacy educator who self-identifies as agender/gender nonconforming, pan-demiromantic, asexual, queer, and neurodivergent. If you’re looking for an identity-driven artist, just contact Socks!