Linda McDaniel
The Director
Melancholy Play
Written by: Sarah Ruhl
Directed by: Linda McDaniel
UC Irvine / Budget: $420
Choreographer: Taylor Clark
Stage Manager: Eden Shook
Technical Director: Colt McGuire
Lighting: Mac McDermott
Costume: Bell Hernandez
Scenic: Rojin Bolandbakht
Sound: Elizabeth Villasenor
Fight and intimacy direction:
by Linda McDaniel
No Exit
Written by: Jean Paul Sartre
Directed by: Linda McDaniel
UC Irvine / Budget: $150
Stage Management: Peyton Pierce,
Scenic: Siyin Yan
Lighting: Ethan Pante
Sound: Linda McDaniel
Costume: Vera Price
Fight and intimacy direction:
by Linda McDaniel
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The Collaboratory
Various Shows - 6yrs.
Directed by: Linda McDaniel
Southern CA / Budget: $0-150
Non-Profit Children's "Edu-tainment" company and Segerstrom Center for the Arts Contractor
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Children's Theatre
Directed by: Linda McDaniel
Southern CA / Budget: 0
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Currently Directing with Acting Academy for Kids. We produce 10 different 30 minute Jr. musicals over the course of 10 weeks, each summer with children ages 4-14.
Men on Boats
Director: Juliette Carillo
Assistant Director: Linda McDaniel
I was in charge of...
"Boat-ography!"
I tracked how the 'boats' would behave in water and tried
to recreate their movements with the actors.
Bald Soprano
Director: Mihai Minatua
Assistant Director: Linda McDaniel
I was in charge of...
the diction in this absurdist Ionesco classic. Helping actors make sense out of senseless dialogue.
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Twelfth Night
Director: Tom Bruno
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I played Feste and was the Musical Director / Assistant Director.
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I selected approachable contemporary music to accompany this classic romantic comedy. I also rehearsed with actors that were approaching Shakespeare for the first time.
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Resume
Beyond Prison Walls Various Incarcerated Writers UC Irvine Drama Emergent Series Melancholy Play Sarah Ruhl UC Irvine Drama Directing Honors Thesis
No Exit Jean Paul Sartre UC Irvine Drama Directors Concept Project
30 Various Jr. Musicals Various Acting Academy for Kids
The Shape of Things Neil Labute Tweatricals (Online)
An Unexpected Holiday Linda McDaniel The Collaboratory
Collaboration! Rachel Baumsten The Collaboratory
The Cost of Cool Daniel Condor The Collaboratory
The Goat or Who Is Sylvia Edward Albee Stella Adler, Los Angeles
Vagina Monologues Eve Ensler Stella Adler, Los Angeles
The Diary of Adam and Eve Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick Stella Adler, Los Angeles
Dancing with the Devil Brooke A. Berman Stella Adler, Los Angeles
The Lover Harold Pinter Stella Adler, Los Angeles
Assistant Director
Gloria (Dir. Andrew Borba) UC Irvine, Main Stage Penelope, A Lesson in Drowning. (Dir. Angela Cruz). Long Beach Shakespeare Company
Men on Boats (Dir. Juliette Carrillo) UC Irvine, Main Stage
The Bald Soprano (Dir. Mihai Maniutiu) UC Irvine, Main Stage
Countess of Escarbagness (Dir. Angela Cruz) UC Irvine Grad Director’s Project
Twelfth Night (Dir. Tom Bruno) Orange Coast College Rep
Education
B.A. in Drama, UC Irvine.
- Honors in Directing
- N.Y. Satellite Musical Theater Program
- UROP Grant Recipient
- Illuminations Grant Recipient
- Creative Connections Teaching Artist
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I.D.C. - Intimacy Directors and Coordinators Certificate of Completion
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Academy of Theatrical Combat - Hand to Hand, Broadsword, Tumbling
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Stella Adler Academy of Acting L.A. - 2 year certification
References
Juliette Carrillo Head of Directing, UCI juliette.carrillo@uci.edu Melyssa Zive Regional Director of ROWI Teens MZive@rowiteen.com
Stephen Zygo Owner of Acting Academy for Kids sjzygo@gmail.com
Tom Bruno Theatre Department Chair, OCC tbruno@occ.cccd.edu Rachel Baumsten Founder/Artistic Director collaboratoryshows@gmail.com
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