Linda serves as Core Faculty and Head of Voice & Speech for The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles. Her film and TV credits are extensive and include American Pie, The Scorpion King, Sonny, That’s Life (CBS), The Hughleys (UPN), and For the People (Lifetime). Besides individual voice and dialect coaching, she has numerous production theatre coaching credits, which include Streetcar Named Desire (South Coast Rep), The Crimson Thread (Pasadena Playhouse), Arms and the Man (A Noise Within), Old Times (El Portal Center for the Arts), The Nibroc Trilogy (Actor’s Co-Op), and Susannah (Opera Pacific). Brennan has presented at the ATHE (The American Theatre in Higher Education) yearly conferences on various topics, including Take the Valley Out of the Girl! She is a member of VASTA (Voice and Speech Trainer’s Association). Her article, T’s and Sympathy: Adventures in the Hollywood Dialect, Tradeappears in the VASTA Journal, Essays on Voice and Speech. Linda is a member of SAG/AFTRA and the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- PhD, Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute;
- MFA, Acting, Brandeis University; MA, Psychology, Antioch University;
- BA, Theatre, California State University;
- AA, The American Academy of Dramatic Arts;
- Alba Emoting certified;
- Studied with Rocco Dal Vera, Catherine Fitzmaurice, Kristin Linklater and others;
- Extensive coaching credits
Theater, Voice and Speech, Psychology
- THE 3900 Do You Hear What I Hear? What Our Voices Reveal