I started writing in my late thirties.
First published at forty-one.
Still going strong at 85!
Linda Hutsell-Manning
Author
Plays & Television
Plays
Throughout high school and after we moved back to Cobourg, I performed in a number of plays. Even though I’d given up a professional theatre career, I was still drawn to amateur performing. In 1964, I played Ado Annie in Oklahoma. In 1978, with the newly formed Northumberland Players, I was Mona Kent in Dames at Sea and a Kit Kat girl in Cabaret. Later, with VOS Theatre, I was Vivian in Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii and Mopsy in Christmas Toy Magic. My last role was with Northumberland Players, an older woman in The Vagina Monologues. My love of theatre and this experience gave me the confidence to write my own plays.
Freddykid and Seagull Sam, Northumberland Players, Cobourg & Kawartha Summer Festival
Published by Playwrights Guild of Canada 1978
Merch the Invisible Wizard, Kawartha Summer Festival, 1979
Published by Playwrights Guild of Canada 1979
The Great Zanderthon Takeover, Kawartha Summer Festival, 1984
Published by Playwrights Guild of Canada 1980
Marcie Saves the Circus, winner in New Play Competition, Alleyway, NYC, 2000
A Certain Singing Teacher, VOS Theatre, 2017
Television
TV Ontario The Polka Dot Door, 5 scripts aired from 1981 to 1993.