Artist Bio

(Bio as of May 2011)

Linda Roethke most recently collaborated with the Goodman on Stage Kiss during the 2010/2011 Season. Ms. Roethke’s other Goodman design credits include The Clean House, Schoolgirl Figure and A Pirate’s Lullaby. Her other Chicago credits include Orlando, Arcadia, The Romance Cycle, The Dead, The Little Foxes, Hay Fever, An Ideal Husband (Jeff Award), Old Times and On the Verge at Court Theatre; and Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Intimate Apparel and I Never Sang for My Father at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Regionally, she designed Julius Caesar and All’s Well That Ends Well at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Managing Maxine and The Underpants at the Alliance Theatre; and productions at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Northlight Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, American Players Theatre, the Utah Shakespearean Festival, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Arden Theatre Company, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Drury Lane theaters and American Players Theatre. Ms. Roethke is a professor of theater at Northwestern University.