Linda Jackson

2004 District Judge

Linda Jackson is the Managing Director of Connecticut Opera with over 25 years of experience working in the performing arts, 20 of them in the field of opera. In August 2001 she was appointed the General Director of Berkshire Opera Company when the company's President & CEO, Sanford Fisher stepped down for health reasons. From 1998 until moving to the Berkshires she served as the Executive Director for artist and stage director Robert Wilson's Byrd Hoffman Foundation, a foundation which supports the Watermill Center, a cultural arts center being established in Southampton, New York; during the 1997-98 season she worked as the Artistic Administrator for Opera Pacific; in 1997 traveled to 63 U.S. cities as the Company Manager for the New York City Opera National Company production of La Boheme; from 1994-96 she was the General Manager for 651, An Arts Center at the Brooklyn Academy of Music presenting an international series of artists and producing The Outcast, an opera by composer Noa Ain; spent from 1981 to 1994 at the Chautauqua Opera in the following capacities: General Director (1988-1994), Managing Director (1985-87), Production Manager (1983-84) and Production Stage Manager (1981-82); served as Production Manager for Texas Opera Theater, the touring arm of Houston Grand Opera, from 1984-87; Production Stage Manager for Greater Miami Opera 1981-1984; Stage Manager for Houston Grand Opera from 1977-1980. Prior to beginning her career in Opera, Miss Jackson worked with several Off-Off Broadway companies including Jean Erdman's Theater of the Open Eye. She holds a degree in English and Theater Arts from Douglass College at Rutgers University.

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