Linda Alper

AEA Member
Linda Alper

Co-adapter, Great Expectations

OSF adaptations with Penny Metropulos: Tracy’s Tiger, The Comedy of Errors and The Three Musketeers, with additional productions at Denver Center Theatre Company, The Acting Company, Santa Cruz Shakespeare Festival, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Stamford Shakespeare Festival, UK. Adaptations with Beatrice Basso: translation/adaptations of Eduardo DeFilippo’s Saturday, Sunday, Monday; Napoli Milionaria! (OSF, American Conservatory Theater, Virginia Repertory Theatre). Other OSF credits: Acting: 23 seasons, more than 50 roles. 

Regional: Intiman Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, ACT–Seattle, Cincinnati Playhouse, Portland Shakespeare Project and others. Resident Artist at Artists Repertory Theatre, where she has appeared in The Price, Tribes, The Quality of Life, Superior Donuts, as Lynn Fontanne in Ten Chimneys and Madame Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard

Awards: Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship, Garland-Dramalogue award for Best Actress (Wit, OSF), National Science Grant for a Visiting Artist to Taiwan, Visiting Artist Residency at the American Academy in Rome, Fulbright Travel Grant to Beijing, Fulbright Senior Scholar (Taiwan) and Fulbright Specialist Grantee (Pakistan). 

Education: BFA, The Juilliard School.