Linda Hardy
BA Brock , MA University of Toronto
Assistant Professor
lhardy@finearts.uvic.ca
Acting, Directing

Linda Hardy received her professional training at The Goodman School of Drama and The Art Institute of Chicago.  She specializes in acting, voice, speech, and directing, with particular interests in Shakespearean production and Asian Theatre. 

In the past decade she has directed seven plays for the Phoenix Theatre, including the first Asian Orion production, Fantastic, as well as Romeo and Juliet, The Seagull and Amigo’s Blue Guitar.  Linda was a member of the New Globe Theatre Actors’ Workshop in London, England, in 1995; a creative consultant  for Maya Box Theatre in Bangkok in ‘96; and, an Artist in Residence for the 80^th anniversary of Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok in ‘97, where she directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 

In 2000, she directed Twelfth Night at Millsaps College, in Jackson, Mississippi, and  2001 found her at the Poesie Sommer Festivel in Beinwil am See, Switzerland, where she conducted Master Classes and directed The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s  Heroines.  In 2003, she directed the première of Les Belles Soeurs in Thailand.  Linda is now preparing for an artistic residency at the Sichuan Conservatory in Chengdu, China, to begin in 2007.

One of the founders The New Bastion Theatre Company in 1989, a fully professional regional theatre in Victoria that employed 80-90 theatre artists per year, Linda is currently serving as dramaturge for Peter Such’s Sunderland and learning Mandarin.