Linda Gillum

Artistic Associate Since 2001

Birthplace
Tulsa, OK

Productions with Remy Bumppo
Violet in Man and Superman, Patient Griselda/Nell/Janine in Top Girls, Linda Seton in Holiday, Frainkie in Some Americans Abroad, Julia in A Delicate Balance, Margot Tatham in Aren?t We All, Elmire in Tartuffe, Mabel Cantwell in The Best Man, Annie in The Real Thing , Director of An Immigrant Class (thinkTank), Abby Drake in Fiction, Catherine/Bertha in Bronte, Anna in Old Times.  Linda also served as Assistant Director for On the Verge.

Favorite Credits
The Real Thing and Holiday with Remy Bumppo and Serenading Louie with Roadworks Productions as an actor, and The Skriker with Defiant Theatre as a director.

Other Theater Credits
A Red Orchid, Court, Defiant, Lyric Opera, Mercury, Northlight, Roadworks, ShawChicago, Steppenwolf and Theatre at the Center as an actor and Chicago Dramatists, Defiant, Famous Door, Illinois Repertory Theatre, Next, Noble Fool, St. Croix Festival and Timber Lake Playhouse as a director. Member and Media Relations Manager of Defiant Theatre Company (R.I.P.).  She also teaches acting at Acting Studio Chicago and Remy Bumppo Theatre and is an adjunct at the University of Illinois in Chicago and The Theatre School at DePaul University.  Linda is also a speech consultant for corporate executives.

Film
Bruised Orange, Casting About and The Haunting Hour

Television
"Prison Break", "Early Edition"

Awards
After Dark Award--Outstanding Ensemble--The Best Man 2006
After Dark Award--Outstanding Ensemble-- A Delicate Balance 2005
After Dark Award--Outstanding Production-- Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage 2002
After Dark Award--Outstanding Ensemble-- Cleansed 2001

Latest News
Next season Linda will appear in Les Liaisons Dangereuses.