Linda Roethke

Linda Roethke

(she/her/hers)

Costume Designer, Oklahoma!

In six seasons at OSF: Richard II, Into the Woods, King Lear, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, All’s Well That Ends Well

Other theatres: Regional: Hand to God, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Geller Girls, The Underpants (Alliance Theatre); Richard III (The Public Theater); The Game’s Afoot (Cleveland Play House); Gem of the Ocean, Water by the Spoonful, The Dead, Orlando (Court Theatre); Stage Kiss, The Clean House (Goodman Theatre); Visiting Edna, Mary Page Marlowe, Motherf***er with the Hat, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Intimate Apparel (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George (Kansas City Repertory Theatre); Miss Saigon (Paramount Theatre). Cincinnati Playhouse, 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: Co-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); Connecticut Circle nomination (A Little Night Music, Connecticut Repertory Theatre.

Education: MFA, University of Iowa.