 Linda
Nell Cooper (playwright / librettist / lyricist), a
graduate of Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA, holds a Masters
of Arts in Humanities from Hollins University and has completed
ABD of her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Linda is
a registered songwriter with BMI in New York City and a member
of The Dramatists Guild of America.
Besides being a winner of the Charles M. Getchell national
award for playwriting, her lyrics for REBEL CRY were
a finalist in the national Lehman Engel Musical Theater Competition
in New York City in the fall of 2002. REBEL CRY was
a national finalist in the 2003 David Mark Cohen Playwriting
Competition sponsored by the Kennedy Center, and APRIL
MORNING was a 2004 semifinalist in the Appalachian Festival
of New Plays. Besides the recently completed musical, MONTE
CRISTO, other plays / musicals she has written include
April Morning, Ribs for Dinner, June
& Judd of the Blue Ridge, Fireflies, Who’s
Your Best Friend, Shenandoah Christmas, Christmas
at the Five & Dime, One Holy Lamb, To
Each His Own, and she is currently working on a treatment
for a play called Twin Ties, a new Christmas musical,
a new patriotic musical review, and a concept for a new musical
based on the Holocaust.
Linda is the Director of Theatre at Liberty University, where
she teaches playwriting, acting, directing, and dramatic literature,
and she directs three mainstage productions a year. Shows
she has directed in her career include: Macbeth,
Steel Magnolias, Oklahoma, Hello Dolly, Guys & Dolls,
Into the Woods, Wait Until Dark, Crazy for You, She Loves
Me, Will Rogers Follies, Big River, Grease, 12 Angry Men,
Godspell, West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Joseph &
the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Scarlet Pimpernel,
Cheaper by the Dozen, Our Town, Once On This Island, Singin’
in the Rain, The Gifts of the Magi, Ragtime, The Man Who Came
to Dinner, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged.
She lives in
Virginia with her husband and their daughter. |
David
Legg (composer / arranger)
