Linda Emond
Encyclopedia
Linda Emond is an American stage
, film
and television
actress.
in Seattle.
Emond appeared in the Broadway
productions of the musical 1776
(1997) as Abigail Adams and in Yasmina Reza
's play Life x 3 (2003), for which she received a nomination for the 2003 Tony Award
as Best Featured Actress in a Play. She has been cast as Linda Loman in the Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman, announced for Spring 2012 with Philip Seymour Hoffman
.
Emond debuted on the New York stage in the Off-Broadway
play Nine Armenians in 1996 at the Manhattan Theatre Club
for which she received a Drama Desk Award
nomination. She was cast as the character "Elaine" in the Craig Lucas
play The Dying Gaul at the Vineyard Theater in 1998.
She has performed in Tony Kushner
's Homebody/Kabul in three separate productions, the first at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2001, receiving a nomination for a Drama Desk Award
, Outstanding Featured Actress and winning the Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Actress and 2002 Obie Award
for Performance. Emond also appeared in the same play at the Mark Taper Forum
, Los Angeles and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
in 2004. She played the role of Queen Hermione in The Winter's Tale at the Public Theater
production of Shakespeare in the Park in July 2010. Emond appeared in the play The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures
, which opened Off-Broadway in the Spring of 2011.
In regional theatre, Emond has performed at Steppenwolf Theatre Company
in Chicago in David Hare's The Secret Rapture in 1990 and at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
, Massachusetts in The Cherry Orchard (2004) and A.R. Gurney's Far East
(1998).
Emond's film and television roles include Simone Beck
in 2009s Julie & Julia
, Georgia O’Keeffe (2009) a made-for-television film for Lifetime, and as Abigail Adams in American Experience: John and Abigail Adams for PBS. In 2009 she played the role of Mary Ann McCray in the Hallmark Hall of Fame
television presentation of A Dog Named Christmas
. She has also appeared in the Law and Order television series and the series The Good Wife.
Emond has also been a reader for audiobooks,, including recent recordings of 206 Bones by Kathy Reichs
and Another Thing to Fall by Laura Lippman
.
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
, film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
and television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
actress.
Training and career
Emond graduated with an MFA from the Professional Actor Training Program at the University of WashingtonUniversity of Washington
University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
in Seattle.
Emond appeared in the Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
productions of the musical 1776
1776 (musical)
1776 is a musical with music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and a book by Peter Stone. The story is based on the events surrounding the signing of the Declaration of Independence...
(1997) as Abigail Adams and in Yasmina Reza
Yasmina Reza
Yasmina Reza is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter. Her parents were both of Jewish origin, her father Iranian, her mother Hungarian.-Career:...
's play Life x 3 (2003), for which she received a nomination for the 2003 Tony Award
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
as Best Featured Actress in a Play. She has been cast as Linda Loman in the Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman, announced for Spring 2012 with Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman is an American actor and director. Hoffman began acting in television in 1991, and the following year started to appear in films...
.
Emond debuted on the New York stage in the Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway theater is a term for a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, and for a specific production of a play, musical or revue that appears in such a venue, and which adheres to related trade union and other contracts...
play Nine Armenians in 1996 at the Manhattan Theatre Club
Manhattan Theatre Club
Manhattan Theatre Club is a theater company located in New York City. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, Manhattan Theatre Club has grown since its founding in 1970 from an Off-Off Broadway showcase into one of the country’s most acclaimed...
for which she received a Drama Desk Award
Drama Desk Award
The Drama Desk Awards, which are given annually in a number of categories, are the only major New York theater honors for which productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway compete against each other in the same category...
nomination. She was cast as the character "Elaine" in the Craig Lucas
Craig Lucas
Craig Lucas is an American playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, musical actor, and film director.-Biography:...
play The Dying Gaul at the Vineyard Theater in 1998.
She has performed in Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner
Anthony Robert "Tony" Kushner is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, and co-authored with Eric Roth the screenplay for the 2005 film, Munich.-Life and career:Kushner was born...
's Homebody/Kabul in three separate productions, the first at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2001, receiving a nomination for a Drama Desk Award
Drama Desk Award
The Drama Desk Awards, which are given annually in a number of categories, are the only major New York theater honors for which productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway compete against each other in the same category...
, Outstanding Featured Actress and winning the Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Actress and 2002 Obie Award
Obie Award
The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City...
for Performance. Emond also appeared in the same play at the Mark Taper Forum
Mark Taper Forum
The Mark Taper Forum is a 739 seat thrust stage at the Los Angeles Music Center built by Welton Becket and Associates on the Bunker Hill section of downtown Los Angeles...
, Los Angeles and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Brooklyn Academy of Music is a major performing arts venue in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, United States, known as a center for progressive and avant garde performance....
in 2004. She played the role of Queen Hermione in The Winter's Tale at the Public Theater
Public Theater
The Public Theater is a New York City arts organization founded as The Shakespeare Workshop in 1954 by Joseph Papp, with the intention of showcasing the works of up-and-coming playwrights and performers. It is headquartered at 425 Lafayette Street in the former Astor Library in the East Village...
production of Shakespeare in the Park in July 2010. Emond appeared in the play The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures
The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures
The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures is a 2009 play by American playwright Tony Kushner. The world premiere was directed by Michael Greif at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, opening on May 15, 2009 in previews and running through June 28...
, which opened Off-Broadway in the Spring of 2011.
In regional theatre, Emond has performed at Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a Tony Award-winning Chicago theatre company founded in 1974 by Gary Sinise, Terry Kinney and Jeff Perry in the basement of a church in Highland Park, Illinois. It has since relocated to Chicago's Halsted Street, in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. Its name comes from...
in Chicago in David Hare's The Secret Rapture in 1990 and at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
Williamstown Theatre Festival
The Williamstown Theatre Festival is a regional summer stock theatre on the campus of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, founded in 1954 by Williams College news director, Ralph Renzi, and drama program chairman, David C. Bryant. The theatre was conceived as a way to use the Adams...
, Massachusetts in The Cherry Orchard (2004) and A.R. Gurney's Far East
Far East (play)
Far East is a play by American playwright A.R. Gurney.-Productions:Far East was first produced at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Massachusetts in July 1998. It premiered Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater in January 1999...
(1998).
Emond's film and television roles include Simone Beck
Simone Beck
Simone "Simca" Beck was a French cookbook author and cooking teacher who, along with colleagues Julia Child and Louisette Bertholle, played a significant role in the introduction of French cooking technique and recipes into American kitchens.-Biography:Except for a few years spent learning...
in 2009s Julie & Julia
Julie & Julia
Julie & Julia is a 2009 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Nora Ephron starring Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci, Amy Adams, and Chris Messina...
, Georgia O’Keeffe (2009) a made-for-television film for Lifetime, and as Abigail Adams in American Experience: John and Abigail Adams for PBS. In 2009 she played the role of Mary Ann McCray in the Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The second longest-running television program in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2011...
television presentation of A Dog Named Christmas
A Dog Named Christmas
A Dog Named Christmas is a 2009 American television film that debuted on CBS as a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie on November 29, 2009. The film was produced by Brent Shields, directed by Peter Werner and written by Jenny Wingfield, who based the script from a novel of the same name by Greg...
. She has also appeared in the Law and Order television series and the series The Good Wife.
Emond has also been a reader for audiobooks,, including recent recordings of 206 Bones by Kathy Reichs
Kathy Reichs
Kathleen Joan Toelle "Kathy" Reichs is an American crime writer, forensic anthropologist and academic . She is a professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, but is currently on indefinite leave...
and Another Thing to Fall by Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman is an American author of detective fiction.-Biography:Lippmann was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the daughter of Theo Lippman Jr., a well known and respected writer at the Baltimore Sun, and Madeline Lippman, a retired school librarian for the...
.