LINDA BUCHANAN has designed environments for hundreds of productions at theatres throughout the country and abroad. Her work has been seen in Chicago at Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf, Court Theatre, the Paramount, and others. Buchanan has designed regionally for Arena Stage, the Alley Theatre, Indiana Rep, Cleveland Playhouse, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Kansas City Rep, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Rep, Seattle Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Syracuse Stage, Yale Rep, Resident Ensemble Theatre, and others. Buchanan received the Merritt Award for Design and Collaboration; Joseph Jefferson Awards for House (Goodman), Black Snow (Goodman), and I Hate Hamlet (Royal George); a Helen Hayes Award for Dancing at Lughnasa (Arena Stage); and a Syracuse Area League of Theatre Award for Peter Pan. Upcoming work includes The Elephant Man (Resident Ensemble Players), The Tavern (Utah Shakespeare Festival) and the opera Lucio Silla for the Buxton Festival, UK. She is Head of Scene Design and Associate Dean at The Theatre School at DePaul University.
Bio as of 2/2017