Lena Hall, in limbo and hell

For Lena Hall, limbo was a pre-existing condition.

Like virtually all performing artists, the San Francisco native, best known for her Tony-winning turn as Yitzhak in the Broadway run of Hedwig & The Angry Inch, has had her schedule-including a series of sold-out cabaret shows at placed on indefinite hold by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Concurrently, Hall’s biggest gig ever-a leading role in the TNT television adaptation of Parasite-director Bong Joon Ho’s 2013 sci-fi feature Snowpiercer -has kept her largely out of the public eye since 2017 when the series, co-starring fellow Bay Area actor Daveed Diggs, began shooting.

A full first season was filmed and so well-received by TNT that a second was ordered and began filming before broadcasts ever began. Subsequent scheduling shuffles at the network have led to repeated postponements of the premiere, which is now slated to air on May 31.

“My career has been on hold waiting for this to happen,” Hall explained in a late February phone interview with the Bay Area Reporter. “I’ve already filmed commercials and promotional interviews for the second season and the first hasn’t even aired. Its very strange.”

Short cabaret runs, including a sold out engagement at the Nikko last January, have provided an opportunity for Hall to stay connected with audiences…