Linda Roethke

Linda Roethke

Costume Designer, King Lear

In three seasons at OSF: As You Like It, Julius Caesar, All’s Well That Ends Well. 

Other theatres: Regional: The Game’s Afoot (Cleveland Play House); The Dead, Orlando (Court Theatre); Stage Kiss, The Clean House (Goodman Theatre); Motherf**ker with the Hat, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Intimate Apparel (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Managing Maxine (Alliance Theatre). Cincinnati Playhouse, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Arden Theatre Company, Center Stage, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, American Players Theatre.

Other credits: Teaching: Director of the MFA Design Program at Northwestern University, where she teaches costume design. 

Awards: Jeff Award (An Ideal Husband, Court Theatre); Suzi Bass nomination (The Underpants, Alliance Theatre). 

Education: MFA, University of Iowa.