Linda Manning is a published and produced playwright, award winning screenwriter, and actor. Most recently her solo show, "Perfect Love", premiered at the United Solo Festival in NYC 2018 directed by Obie, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award winner Gretchen Cryer and has also been performed at Dixon Place and the Poor Mouth Theatre Company. She has written five full length plays: "Bite the Apple" (2019 Finalist for the Kentucky Women Writers Prize); "There Is No You and Me" (Finalist - New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest 2017); "GUY" (semi-finalist for the O'Neill National Playwriting Conference 2007); "DO SOMETHING WITH YOURSELF! The Life of Charlotte Brontë" produced by The Invisible Theatre, NYC and published by Smith and Kraus; adaptation of "The Fall of the House of Usher" produced by The Invisible Theatre, NYC. Her short film, "Ghost Ride", that she co-wrote and starred in premiered at the 2017 Manhattan Film Festival and at the New York Short Film Festival. Her screenplay "Charlotte" was in the second round of competition for the 2016 Sundance Screenwriters Lab. Her screenplay "Learning to Drive" won the Grand Prize in the StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest. Linda has acted in numerous independent films and theater productions in New York and regionally. LindaSManning.com
Linda has worked as a teaching artist for Red Bull Theatre, Hour Children, Horace Mann School, and in NYC public schools. She has also taught master classes in screenwriting through the Bronx Council on the Arts. Linda has a Masters Degree from Trinity Rep Conservatory in Providence, Rhode Island, and a Bachelors from the University of Colorado.
Linda has been a resident of Riverdale for twenty years and has been actively involved in the community through volunteer work at her children's schools and other community events. In the spring of 2010 Linda began producing and hosting a regular jazz series in Riverdale. LindasJazzNights.com.
