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“Getting and Spending”
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Linda Purl was born in Connecticut and raised in Japan, becoming the only foreigner to train at the Toho Geino Academy. At the Imperial Theatre in Tokyo, she played the role of Louis in ‘The King and I’ (in Japanese), Bet in ‘Oliver’ and the role of Helen in ‘The Miracle Worker’.

She then went to England to study under Marguerite Beale, before returning to the United States to study at the Lee Strasberg Institute, and later with Robert Lewis.

Linda has received six Dramalogue Best Actress Awards and two Dramalogue Awards as Best Producer. She has received two Robby Awards for Best Actress and is a three time nominee of the Los Angeles Drama Critic’s Award for Best Actress. She is the recipient of the Connecticut Critics’ Award for Outstanding Performance in a Play for her work in The Baby Dance. She is Founding Festival Director of the California International Theatre Festival.

Linda’s stage credits include:

Broadway
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Getting and Spending

Off Broadway
The Baby Dance (with Stephanie Zimbalist)

Off-Off-Broadway
Hallelujah, Hallelujah!

Regional work

Cleveland Playhouse
The Glass Menagerie

Actors Theatre of Louisville (Humana Festival)
“Dinner With Friends” (Original production of the Pulitzer Prize winning play)

Old Globe Theatre
Getting and Spending

Long Wharf Theatre
The Road To Mecca (with Miss Julie Harris), The Baby Dance

Sacramento Music Circus
Grease

San Bernardino Civic Light Opera
On a Clear Day

With Robert Foxworth in “Nora”
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Lobero Theatre
John Brown’s Body

Williamstown Theatre Festival
Nora (with Michael York), All the Way Home (with Miss Kim Hunter), The Three Penny Opera (with Betty Buckley), The Baby Dance (with Stephanie Zimbalist)

Pasadena Playhouse
The Baby Dance (with Stephanie Zimbalist)

Mark Taper Forum Rep
The Real Thing, Hedda Gabler

L.A. Public Theatre
Beyond Therapy, Romeo and Juliet, A Doll’s House

South Coast Repertory
The Man Who Could See Through Time

Globe Theatre
The Merchant of Venice

Sacramento Music Theatre
Grease

Olney Theatre
Fallen Angels

Boulder Theater
Love Letters with Desi Arnaz, Jr.

Berkshire Theatre Festival
Tusitala (with Miss Julie Harris)