Linda Sherbert

Linda Sherbert has helped to develop Atlanta voices for the American theater since 1997, when she began teaching playwriting. In 2003, she became a Teaching Artist at the Alliance Theatre, launching the Education Department’s dramatic writing classes. In 2013, she added screenwriting. Scripts nurtured in her classes have been seen in Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and New York. Linda is a produced playwright and a director. She is the former Producing Director of the 14th Street Playhouse, where she managed its three theaters and directed presentations such as Tony winner Heather Headley’s one-woman show. Linda has served on the President’s Council of the Woodruff Arts Center. She has taught theater and/or writing courses at the University of Georgia, Kennesaw State University, and Emory University. She had a residency at the O’Neill Theater Center. She has studied under screenwriting experts in Hollywood. She earned an MFA at Catholic University in Washington, D.C.