Linda Slade
Artistic Director, Founder

Linda graduated from Cambridge University, The Drama Studio and The Central School of Speech and Drama in London. She works as an actor, teacher, voice coach and director.

Linda is the resident director for ModernEyes Theatre Company and is also a freelance director, having worked both in England and the States. Recent productions include My Night with Barbara Payton and Marilyn and Phil, both for First Stage in Hollywood, CA; The Adam and Eve Diaries for Stageworks in Tampa, FL; Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol for The Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine, FL; the British premiere and tour of Goodnight 20th Century Goodnight for The Jasperian Theatre Company in the UK. Within in the drama schools in Britain she has taught acting and voice and has directed musicals and classical plays too numerous to mention!

Most recent acting work includes Triptych, in which she played the mistress opposite Susan Clark at The Matrix Theatre in Los Angeles:

American acting credits include: Beth in Otherwise Engaged (Simon Gray) for The Banyan Theatre Company, Asolo Theatre, Sarasota; The Governess in Turn of the Screw for Stageworks at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center; Mother/June in Wallace Shawn's Aunt Dan and Lemon with Dog and Pony Productions at the Gorilla Theater; the lead in Jeffrey Hatcher's Scotland Road.

European acting credits include: Noel Coward's Present Laugher for Middle Ground Theatre Company; Mrs. Lind in The Doll's House; Phaedra in The Hippolytos Play and Helen in The Love of a Nightingale for Theatre Melange; the title role in Madea for the Arts Theatre, Dublin; Kate in Keeping Body and Soul Together for the Mermaid Theatre, Denmark; Anne Bronte in Reader I Murdered Him for the Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh; Catherine Booth in the British tour of William and Catherine for the Jasperian Theatre Company.

Film and television credits include: Peggy Lance in Hollywood Confidential for Starla Productions, Los Angeles (due for release in 2007); Wycliffe, Casualty, Trail of Guilt, The Chain, Noel's House Party (BBC); Return of the Psammead, Mud (Children's BBC); Fair City (RTE); Mind to Kill (Welsh and English Productions, S4C/Channel 5); Nuts and Bolts (HTV).

Linda has been head of voice and movement for LITES (London International Enterprises) since 1996 and currently works as part time faculty for The California State Fullerton University teaching voice, movement and physical theatre. She has also worked on numerous films and theatrical projects as an advisory voice/dialect coach.