Biography and Resume

Of her recent theatre work much has been in the States: Playing such roles as Beth in Otherwise Engaged by Simon Gray at the Asolo Theatre in Sarasota Florida, Triptych by Edna O Brien playing the role of Clarissa opposite the Emmy award winning actress Susan Clark for the Nomad Theatre Company in The Matrix Theatre on Melrose, Los Angeles, and 8 playing Dr. Nancy Cott, at The Borgnine Theatre in California. A play by Dustin Lance Black retelling the historical trial that overturned proposition 8 preventing marriage equality for the gay community in America.

Other theatre roles have included Miss Fischer in A Picasso for Stageworks in Tampa, Scotland Road, for the Sugden Theatre in Naples, Florida, and The Turn of The Screw in which she played the Governess – originally performed at The Tampa Bay Performing Arts Centre and then transferred to the UK performing at Berkeley Castle and finally The New End Theatre, Hampstead. She played Medea at the Dublin Arts Centre in Medea opposite Geoff Minogue, and Phaedra in Hippolytus for the UK touring company Theatre Melange. Shakespeare includes Olivia in Twelfth Night (Sierre Madre Theatre Company, California,) Lady Macbeth (Macbeth) and Gertrude, twice, in Hamlet, at The Met Theatre in LA and in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – also in LA. She is currently a member of the LA Opera at The Dorothy Chandler Theatre in LA having appeared as The Queen Of Austria with Placido Domingo in Nabbucco, and a dancer in Rigoletto.

Linda’s UK television work includes roles in Wycliffe, Casualty, A Mind to Kill, Nuts and Bolts, A Trail of Guilt and for BBC Children’s TV Mud and Return of The Psammead. She has also appeared in a guest lead role (Detective Inspector Evans) on the soap Fair City in Ireland. American television includes Call 911, I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant, LA Paranormal, and Heroes: The Takezo Kenzei Sword. Film work includes leads in The Last One, Chapped Lips, Hollywood Confidential, and Masterless.

Linda trained in voice at The Royal Central School of London (University of London) under the mentorship of David Carey. Combined with her degree in drama and education from Homerton College, Cambridge University, and a one year post graduate acting training at The Drama Studio in Ealing, London, Linda was able to teach acting, classical performance, radio technique, voice, public speaking, text analysis and accents at numerous universities and drama schools around the world: These have included Cal State Fullerton, New York Film Academy, Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, London. She has been part of The Rodenburg Agency in Voice and trained with Barbara Houseman, Cicely Berry and Mark Meylan. She is trained in Laban, Alexander work, and the work of Augusto Boal, Etienne Decroux, and Stanislavsky, Brecht and Meisner.

Linda has always had a passion for Classical Theatre: she started her professional career at the age of sixteen when she was cast as Titania in Midsummer Night’s Dream with The Young Shakespeare Theatre Company in Stratford. After having trained in the first folio technique with Patrick Tucker and specialized in classical acting at The Drama Studio she has been teaching and performing Shakespeare ever since.

Linda moved to the States in 2011 performing at The Asolo Theatre in Sarasota, The Tampa Bay Performing Arts, The Long Beach Shakespeare Company as well as with Stageworks in Florida where she won best actress in Tampa. She was picked up by an agent and invited to LA to work on the tv series: Heroes Evolutions: The Sword Saint playing Professor Karen Chamberlin. Still maintaining a connection with Europe and Scandinavia she went on to tour her one woman shows there: The Little Mermaid and The Yellow Wallpaper.

When not working as an actress Linda works as a Voice Coach in LA coaching classical text and accents, particularly the Royal accents, in films such as Lifetime’s William and Kate, in which she also played the voices of all six female reporters in the film.

Having spent two years working with Theatre Melange – an intercultural explorative physical theatre company based in the UK, Linda combined her vocal training with her knowledge of physical movement based on numerous methodologies such as that developed by Michael Chekhov and Rudolph Laban. She specializes in working with the breath and the body, to access a variety of vocal and emotional expression in performance as well as teaching a solid technique to strengthen the voice and connect to the authentic vocal sound of the individual. She has written five short books on Amazon about the voice (The Easy Voice Book Series) and her latest book Stand and Deliver is currently with a publisher and due for release in 2025.

Linda has a Masters Degree in Spiritual Psychology with an emphasize in Consciousness Health and Healing from The University of Santa Monica. This has enabled her to work at a deeper level with her voice and speech clients, especially those who have specific vocal issues following ill health or psychological trauma. During covid Linda researched and worked with patients suffering from aphasia, dyslexia, parkinsons and stroke victims and now has clients whom she regularly supports in reclaiming their ability to express themselves and communicate effectively after medical illnesses. She has also worked with politicians, ministers and business professionals in effective communication, presentation and public speaking.

Linda is an accomplished television and theatre director:- She was
recently nominated as best director for her production of Echoes by Henry Naylor at the Hollywood Fringe. She has directed numerous Shakespeare productions, plays, musicals and opera – both professionally and within the education system. Her opera production of Amahl ran for two Christmases at The Hollywood United Methodist Church performing to sold out houses. Linda was also the ‘hidden’ director on many of the Noel Edmunds Gotcha’s for the BBC’s Noel’s House Party that ran for years on Saturday evenings in the UK to much acclaim. Recently, Linda’s play:- ‘Who was Harriet Brown?’ has been commissioned in Sweden and will be touring Europe, the US and the UK in 2025.

Linda also has a Masters Degree in Film Production from The University of South Wales and has produced one movie: ‘Dawn of the Dead’ and two tv episodes, ‘Yucky Da’ and ‘Haupt Air’.

Linda believes it is important to develop confidence and communication skills with her clients and to create hope and educational opportunities for young people worldwide. Her charity International Mother Earth Foundation, as well as providing clean water systems and building homes and schools, has developed drama educational programs in numerous countries such as Uganda, China, Peru, Fiji and Italy. In these countries Linda has trained local teachers to integrate performance skills into the main curriculum to develop opportunity and leadership skills in their students.

Linda has had the opportunity to work with the best, studying with Pinter, Tom Stoppard, and attending lectures by directors Spielberg and Jane Campion. She has worked alongside actors such as Patricia Hodge, Nigel Havers, Placido Domingo, Susan Clark, (Theatre), directors such as Sam Mendes and Robin Gammil, and film actors such as Richard Riele, Vernon Wells, Joe Estevez, Russell Tovey and Jimmy Williams (TV/Film). To name a few.

It is Linda’s intention to continue working with inspired groups of artists, to collaborate, perform and educate through the medium of performance and the works of great writers and musicians.

In her spare time Linda volunteers at a wildlife sanctuary in Los Angeles where she oversees the enrichment program of 27 lions and tigers.