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Résumé

Linnea Bond

 

Stats: 5’8”
EMC, SAG-E

Soprano


Location: Philadelphia, PA
Willing to travel

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Theatre (selected)

On Golden Pond (upcoming)          Chelsea                        Jonathan Silver                  Endstation Theatre Company

A Room at the Flamingo Hotel (upcoming) Vivian/Cassandra   Maura Kraus           Azuka Theatre

The Sea Voyage^                               Crocale                         Dan Hodge                        The Philadelphia Artists’ Collective

N.C. Wyeth’s Dream*                       Andrew Wyeth             Mike Durkin                       Renegade Theatre Company

A Doll’s House, Part 2                      Nora (u/s)                      Tracy Brigden                    Arden Theatre Co.

Four People*                                    Olga                                Karie Miller                        The Ohio State Univ.

Romeo and Juliet^              Prince/Friar Laurence/Peter   Allison Bomber                 The Ohio State Univ.

Hearts Like Fists                              Sally                                Tamora Winters                The Know Theatre of Cincinnati

Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake)  Mother       Ben Raanan                        Cincinnati Fringe Festival

Around the World in 80 Days**      Ensemble                    D. Lynn Meyers                  Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati

Tribes                                                 Silvia (u/s)                      Michael Evan Haney         Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati

*Devised  **Musical  ^Classic Text

Additional Projects

  • Assistant Producer - Brian's House Lupin Performance Cooperative

  • Teaching Artist

  • Founder and Actor - Queen City Queer Theatre Collective

Film

Dark Waters                                       Claire (Supporting)             Todd Haynes                       Participant Media

Carol                                                   Hostess (Supporting)         Todd Haynes                        Salt Film Productions

Training & Skills

MFA Acting and Devising                                                                                             The Ohio State University

Acting Apprentice                                                                                                         Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati

B.A. Sociology, cum laude                                                                                            Washington and Lee University

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Other Training: Pig Iron Summer Training (Neutral Mask, Commedia, Clown); Royal Shakespeare Company (Stand Up for Shakespeare/Rehearsal techniques); SITI (Suzuki, Viewpoints, Speaking and Moving); American Conservatory Theatre (Acting, Shakespeare, Viewpoints, Fitzmaurice, et al); Double Edge (Physical Theatre Devising); Abbey Theatre (Acting); Frantic Assembly (Physical Theatre Devising); Richard Crawford (Neutral Mask); Marc Weinblatt (Theatre of the Oppressed)

 

Teaching: Theatre of the Oppressed for high school, collegiate, and post-collegiate groups, Physical Devising for

collegiate; Shakespeare for military veterans; Theatre for elementary students (with PhillyASAP); Improv for Architecture students; Interlochen Summer Camp (Assistant, Acting for the Camera; faculty: Kat Coiro); Arden Summer Camp (Middle School; comedy, improv and clown); Wolf PAC (High; acting)

College full semester courses: Craft of Acting, Stanislavsky, Voice and Movement, and Intro to Theatre

Directing and Coaching: Love Song, PennPlayers at UPenn; Dogged Song, Staged reading, Available Light Theatre; Beyond All Recognition (collaborative direction); Direction of Various Scenes, Vocal Coach (Forbidden Zones)

Producing: Queen City Queer Theatre Collective play reading series (Creator, Founder and Actor)

Writing: Heard, 2015 Cincinnati Fringe Festival; BFF, 2018 Ohio State Univ.

Collaboration: N.C. Wyeth’s Dream, Renegade Company; Beyond All Recognition and Forbidden Zones: The Great War, The Ohio State Univ.

 

Dialects: Estuary English, RP, Cockney, German, American Southern, Irish, others with notice

Languages: Spanish, some Kiswahili

Skills: Technical theatre experience (ASM, costume, set, lights op, sound op), Filming and editing experience (AVID), Reads vocal music, Can face-balance a broom

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Linnea Bond is a performance artist, actor, writer, director, and teacher who produces work with intentional social momentum. ​

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Linnea Bond is a Philadelphia-based performance artist, environmental justice organizer, and educator exploring apocalypse and renewal on a personal, interpersonal, and global scale. With her undergraduate degree in Sociology and an MFA in Acting and New Works Creation, her work lives in the intersection of art and activism and has included live proscenium theatre, clown, traditional storytelling, immersive/site specific experiences, protest design, and audio and video creation. She is currently touring The American Revolution with Chicago-based Theatre Unspeakable.

 

Linnea has toured to twelve North American cities performing Heart Ripped Out Twice And So Can You!, her autobiographical comedic solo show about her life-threatening tumors and a devastating break-up, and connecting the pain of heartbreak to the climate crisis. Picked up for a run at Off-Broadway's SoHo Playhouse, the show won Critics’ Pick of the Cincinnati Fringe and artist vote for encore performance, and Producer’s Pick at the Atlanta Fringe, with the Orlando Weekly saying, “If Amy Sedaris and Jane Lynch had a baby who became the world's most intense timeshare salesperson, they still probably wouldn't be half as arresting as Linnea Bond… [A]n achingly funny plea for existence.” At each tour stop, she has partnered with local organizations to connect audiences with environmental justice campaigns after the show. She also presented the work at Penn State Abington with a talkback and writing workshop for students, and taught similar writing and touring workshops at Ohio State and Gonzaga Universities.

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As a solo artist, she also created BFF, a one woman play about a millennial woman and her mannequin best friend traversing post-apocalyptic America. New World Rising!, her immersive ambulatory experience in which a single audience member follows texted and scanned instructions as a new recruit to an eco-terrorist cell, sold out its Philadelphia Fringe Festival premiere in 2021. You Have My Name and Loosey and Goosey Present The Final Show both explore memory loss: the first is an essay performance drawing lines between herself and her grandmother with dementia and the second is an audience participatory piece about creating theatre in a memory-less dystopian future. During the pandemic, she premiered a "live movie" in her apartment, where a single audience member designed their own experience watching the fallout of a life-changing phone call (News).

 

Linnea also devises collaboratively. With A Benefit Cabaret To Save Philadelphia From Climate Change, she brought together five of Philadelphia’s best cabaret and drag performers for a theatrical funding fiasco that turns into an activist teach-in halfway through the show. ​ She collaborated with Lupine Performance Cooperative on Brian’s House, a piece exploring cults and power; with Sohrab Haghverdi on SexPlay, which received a digital premiere; and with Blake Edwards on script development of his one-woman show about objectification in a codependent relationship through the lens of a nude figure study model. She has also worked with Renegade Theatre Company in partnership with the Andrew Wyeth Museum (N.C. Wyeth's Dream) and with Theatre OBLIvION on their verbatim piece exploring the heroin crisis (Siren Songs). With her graduate cohort of Acting/Devising MFAs at Ohio State University, she created a play exploring reintegration challenges and the civilian-military divide in partnership with veterans and their caretakers (Beyond All Recognition).

 

In addition to writing and stage acting, she has also directed and dramaturged, and played small roles in Todd Haynes’ films, Carol and Dark Waters. She has taught elementary through adult students, including three years teaching undergraduate theatre and acting at Ohio State. She also founded and produced a playreading company, Queen City Queer Theatre Collective, which celebrated LGBTQIA stories in Cincinnati for two years through support from a monthly Absolut Vodka grant. In addition to her graduate research, she draws on extensive acting and movement training with such companies as SITI, Pig Iron, the RSC, American Conservatory Theatre, Double Edge, and Frantic Assembly.

 

She played leadership roles in Earth Quaker Action Team’s “Power Local Green Jobs” campaign and the Vanguard SOS campaign, alongside the Yes Men and Sunrise Project. As Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania’s Education Director, she partners with impacted communities to build sustainable solutions and end fossil fuel extraction. Her 20-minute Built To Last documentary was instrumental in securing new funding for the comprehensive repair and sustainability retrofit program benefitting low income homeowners.

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Linnea uses all pronouns (she/he/they).

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