Linda Jones is an NYC actor with a "cracked wit" and a passion for words and language. She works in new plays, old plays, film and television, and every few months dons a cocktail dress, cradles a martini and belts out ballads in a cabaret act in venues around NYC. A leading lady by type, she's also been known to play old women, teenage girls, men, boys, fairies, gods and pirates. (There was an Energenius in there too - guess what that is and she will buy you a drink and sing you a song.) With dozens of premieres under her belt (New York, West Coast, US and World), she loves nothing more than to work on new plays by exceptional writers. She also does classics. She spent several years as a lead artist with Crowded Fire, an award-winning, nationally recognized San Francisco theatre company, where she was happily named by one reviewer as, "...an indispensable actor of exceptional power, nuance and range." (Brad Rosenstein, SF Bay Guardian).

Award-winning work includes Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing and Charles Mee's Trojan Women: A Love Story. And generous critics have called her "nuanced," (EDGE NYC), "deep" (NY Cool), "fierce" (OnOffOff), "sharp and hilarious" (New Theatre Corps), "ever-versatile" (Backstage West), "excellent" (SF Bay Guardian), "magical" (Contra Costa Times), "inspired, touching and comic" (SF Chronicle), "mesmerizing" (Sacramento News & Review), "completely focused and faultless... hilarious" (Sacramento Press-Tribune), "[an actor with] a quality of inner light - rare, radiant and indefinable" (Ithaca Journal).

Born and bred Concord, Massachusetts (she learned to swim in Walden Pond!), her escapades have taken her across the country, with years spent in upstate NY (she is honored to hold a BFA in Acting from Ithaca College), Chicago and San Francisco. It was only a few years back that she hopped in her little convertible, waved good-bye to California, and drove cross-country, Johnny Cash's 'Ring of Fire' blaring from the speakers as she crossed the Nevada desert. And, though she looks back fondly - she's glad to be a New Yorker.

She is a proud member of Actors Equity and Screen Actors Guild. In addition to performing, she also coaches voice, speech and dialects for actors, and works at Edge Studio coaching voiceover in NYC. (For more coaching info, click ▸here.)

Other details? She prefers her whisky neat and her coffee black. She loves dive bars and diners, thunderstorms and snow days. And road trips. And though she tried being a blonde for a few years, she discovered she actually has more fun as a brunette. She has been known to run marathons - three to be exact - and she's looking forward to running her fourth. Maybe this year...

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