Linda Cookson

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I am a graduate of the International Film and Television School Full TIme course. I trained primarily under Craig McMahon in acting for camera and scene study ( still training ). I also trained with Katrina Milosevic, Damien Walsh Howling, Eve Moray, Simone Buchanan, Damian Walshe Howling, Damian Bodie, Orpheus Pledger, Tyler Coppin, Ross Daniels,.Skills worked on were American Dialect, creativity and imagination, Laban, Pracrical Aesrhetics, Strasburg, Stella Adler, Ivana Chubbick. Genre studied were television soaps, children's television, police drama, social drama, period drama - Shakespeare and Cjekov. I am also a graduate of The Journey ( Actors' Centre Australia ) where I trained under Dean Carey, Angela Punch Mcgregor, Tanya Gerstle ( under my middle name of Racheal ), Kevin Jackson. Here I studied Laban, voice and body and theatre technique. I also studied at Ensemble Studios under Hayes Gordon. I have studied the Stanislavsky method also. I have also kept my training going by completing short courses at the Victorian College Of The Arts. I have performed in productions. In 2023 I played Coral in Away for Theatreworks in a Theatre works produced production and received excellent reviews (directed by Steven Mitchell Wright). I was also in Exiles for Bloomsday at 45 Downstairs directed by Carl Whiteside with good reviews in the role of Brigid. I was also in Toto's Song playin the role of Toto at Theatreworks for the Radical Acts Festival and for She Writes. Gasworks - Domestic Warfare) for which I received excellent reviewsand King In Exile in whicjh I was an Ensemble member. The Malthouse, La Mama( great reviews in Arts Hub and Theatre People) Carlton Courthouse, Melbourne Writers' Theatre ( for which I received excellent reviews in The Age ) Cromwell Street Theatre, Belvoir Street Theatre, Independent Theatre and Bay Street Theatre. Film / Television work includes American Television series Preacher playing the role of Sheila against Ruth Negga and Joe Guilgun. I was also the singing lady in the A.B.C. series Fires. In 2022, I was in Brian Patto's Snowblind playing the role of Joan. I had a role in Andrea Joshua Asnicar Bodies In The Water S.C.P. shorts. I was also in Visual Eyes Productions where I was the lead in Shotlister the movie directed by Mark Lamprell ( My Mother Frank ), Meggar Beggar Productions In addition, I have completed two roles with Durkin Street Productions in which I played the older role against James Freshville from Animal Kingdom and the mother In another film again with James Freshville and the mother of Denis Akdeniz (Tomorrow When the War Began)