Linda Roethke

Alliance Theatre credits include The Geller GirlsManaging Maxine, The Underpants, and Shadowlands. Other national credits include Into the Woods, King Lear, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, and All’s Well That Ends Well, and the upcoming Richard II at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Sunday in the Park with George (Kansas City Rep), Miss Saigon (Paramount Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Milwaukee Rep); Richard III (The Public); The Game’s Afoot (Cleveland Play House); Gem of the Ocean, The Good BookWater by the Spoonful, The Dead, Orlando (Court Theatre); Stage Kiss, The Clean House (Goodman Theatre); Motherf**ker With the Hat, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Intimate Apparel (Steppenwolf Theatre Company). She’s also designed at Cincinnati Playhouse, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Arden Theatre Company, Center Stage, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, and American Players Theatre. Linda is a professor at Northwestern University, where she teaches costume design. Linda was recently selected to exhibit as part of Costume Design at the Turn of the Century in Moscow. Her awards include a Jeff for An Ideal Husband at Court Theatre and Suzi Bass nominations (The Geller Girls and The Underpants, Alliance Theatre), Connecticut Circle nomination (A Little Night Music, Connecticut Rep). She received her MFA from the University of Iowa. 

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