Linda Gates biography

Linda Gates 

At Writers Theatre: The Chosen, Bus Stop, The Uneasy Chair, To The Green Fields Beyond, The Doctor's Dilemma, Our Town, Benefactors

Gates other Chicago vocal coaching credits include Lost Land, The Violet Hour, Homebody/ Kabul, David Copperfield, The Ballad Of Utile Jo, Closer, Orson's Shadow, Hysteria, The Glass Menagerie, The Man Who Came To Dinner (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), Love's Labor's  Lost (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Pericles, The Rose Tatoo, A Christmas Carol, Black Star Line (Goodman Theatre), Aren't We All, Money, The Secret Rapture, Hapgood, The Road To Mecca, Heartbreak House (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company), Desire Under The Elms (Court Theatre). She was English Diction Coach for The Lyric Opera of Chicago and Chicago Opera Theatre. Broadway credits include Macbeth with Nicol Williamson. Off-Broadway credits include Dionysus In 69 and Makbeth (The Performance Group). Regional credits include American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut, Yale Repertory Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. She is Head of Voice in the Department of Theatre at Northwestern University and the author of Voice For Performance. 

[Bio as of March 2006]