Linda Bisesti

Linda Bisesti is an actress, director, and acting teacher who earned a graduate acting degree from the Boston University School for the Arts and trained as a Designated Linklater Teacher under Kristin Linklater. She performed and directed Shakespeare and led the Southern California Shakespeare Festival as its artistic director. At Cal Poly Pomona she headed the acting program and coached voice and directed, and she taught voice in the MFA program at California State University, Long Beach, and was on the faculty at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She was a guest lecturer and artist at the Gaiety School of Theatre in Dublin, the American Shakespeare Center, and the Actors Center in London. Her feature films screened at festivals including Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca, Slamdance, and the American Film Institute. Her stage credits include the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company, the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, and Shear Madness in Boston, and she won a Backstage West Award for Best Comic Performance.