Linda has been a theatre-maker for over four decades in Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane. Linda’s onstage theatre credits cover major roles in drama, comedy and music theatre since the 1970s. As a professional director, her 2013 production of A Tender Thing (Full Circle Theatre/Brisbane Powerhouse) gained three Queensland Matilda Award nominations including best independent production. She has also been a sought-after director of community theatre with her bold adaptation of Sheridan’s The School for Scandal (Adelaide Repertory Theatre) winning the 2006 Adelaide Critics Circle Coopers Award for best production.

Originally graduating from Sydney’s Conservatorium of Music, she has sustained a long interest in arts pedagogy and applied arts in the community. She was artistic director of The Art of Living, Mobilong Prison Arts Festival (2006), funded by Arts SA/Richard Llewellyn Trust, where she developed the original work with prisoners: Voices of Restoration featuring ABC’s Charles Southwood, and the prison production of Suitcase Stories. She then began a theatre program for incarcerated women in Queensland culminating in public performances of the devised works Home Again (2012) and Her Name is Alice (2013), and was Research Fellow for a national research project mapping performing arts in Australian prisons.

In addition to her theatre work, Linda is also a respected psychologist, her professional skills and experience falling uniquely at the intersection of theatre, psychology, music and education.