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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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