Linda Thornburg
Linda Thornburg as Louise, 1982
Ms. Thornburg is an award-winning writer, director and producer of film, TV, and theatre. Her film adaptation of May Sarton’s iconic lesbian novel, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, has won numerous Audience Best Awards and has screened at festivals around the globe.
Awards for Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing include:
Best Feature, Fire Island Film and Video Festival
Best Lesbian Feature, Brussels Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Best Lesbian Feature, Pikes Peak Lavender Film Festival
Best Debut Feature, Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival
and a Jury Nomination for Best of Festival, Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival.
Ms. Thornburg began her career as a staff director for CBS affiliate WBNS Columbus, OH. She left WBNS to work for the Ohio Historical Society. There Ms. Thornburg wrote and produced an award-winning series of historical minutes for the Bicentennial called "The 17th Star." She also wrote, produced, and directed the documentary, "Oh Dear: A History of Woman Suffrage," which won her an Individual Artist Fellowship in Filmmaking from the Ohio Arts Council, received a Chris Bronze Plaque, and was an American Film Festival Finalist. Her short documentaries, "Everybody's Neighborhood: The South Side Settlement House," and "Another View," a portrait of blind sculptor Ann Gazelle, have also won a number of awards.
Ms. Thornburg’s play "Leap of Faith,” garnered her a second OAC Individual Artist Fellowship in Playwriting, a nomination for a Cable Car Award in San Francisco for Best Gay Theatre, and an Applause Award in Provincetown.
Ms. Thornburg is currently adapting for film her one-woman show, "Good Girls Don't," about growing up queer and clueless in the Midwest in the 5os and 6os. She also is the author and illustrator of a children's picture book, The Cat Doesn't Travel the Usual Path.
Ms. Thornburg has taught various courses in film and television production as well as screenwriting at the Ohio State University, The Evergreen State College, and Columbus College of Art and Design. For more than a decade Ms. Thornburg served as media consultant to the Kentucky Humanities Council Media Panel. She also served as Board Chair of the Columbus Film and Video Festival and as Screenwriting Chair of its Board of Directors. Her work has been supported by the Ohio Humanities Council, The Ohio Arts Council, The Ohio Joint Program in the Arts and Humanities, the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Evergreen Foundation, the Horizon Foundation, the Ohio Bicentennial Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Office of Women's Studies at the Ohio State University, and "Angels" too numerous to mention.
Awards for Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing include:
Best Feature, Fire Island Film and Video Festival
Best Lesbian Feature, Brussels Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Best Lesbian Feature, Pikes Peak Lavender Film Festival
Best Debut Feature, Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival
and a Jury Nomination for Best of Festival, Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival.
Ms. Thornburg began her career as a staff director for CBS affiliate WBNS Columbus, OH. She left WBNS to work for the Ohio Historical Society. There Ms. Thornburg wrote and produced an award-winning series of historical minutes for the Bicentennial called "The 17th Star." She also wrote, produced, and directed the documentary, "Oh Dear: A History of Woman Suffrage," which won her an Individual Artist Fellowship in Filmmaking from the Ohio Arts Council, received a Chris Bronze Plaque, and was an American Film Festival Finalist. Her short documentaries, "Everybody's Neighborhood: The South Side Settlement House," and "Another View," a portrait of blind sculptor Ann Gazelle, have also won a number of awards.
Ms. Thornburg’s play "Leap of Faith,” garnered her a second OAC Individual Artist Fellowship in Playwriting, a nomination for a Cable Car Award in San Francisco for Best Gay Theatre, and an Applause Award in Provincetown.
Ms. Thornburg is currently adapting for film her one-woman show, "Good Girls Don't," about growing up queer and clueless in the Midwest in the 5os and 6os. She also is the author and illustrator of a children's picture book, The Cat Doesn't Travel the Usual Path.
Ms. Thornburg has taught various courses in film and television production as well as screenwriting at the Ohio State University, The Evergreen State College, and Columbus College of Art and Design. For more than a decade Ms. Thornburg served as media consultant to the Kentucky Humanities Council Media Panel. She also served as Board Chair of the Columbus Film and Video Festival and as Screenwriting Chair of its Board of Directors. Her work has been supported by the Ohio Humanities Council, The Ohio Arts Council, The Ohio Joint Program in the Arts and Humanities, the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Evergreen Foundation, the Horizon Foundation, the Ohio Bicentennial Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Office of Women's Studies at the Ohio State University, and "Angels" too numerous to mention.
