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Few artists today are as well-rounded as actress, musician, and producer Linda Collins. She leads, for the most part, with her onscreen work as a performer and one of her recent high profile projects is the film Three for the Road. Her starring role in the production is a pivotal part of the project’s success and serving as Executive Producer further highlights her stake in the movie’s success.
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It is far from financial alone. Collins is the sort of artist who doesn’t commit herself to projects in half-measures but, instead, backs something she believes in with the fullness it demands. Her personal work on Three for the Road and the project’s overall excellence has powered the film to numerous awards. The short film garnered an award for Best Ensemble at the Brightside Tavern Film Festival and for Best TV Series-Web-Pilot at 2022’s New York Independent Cinema Awards; Collins and company developed the short film with the hope it would spark into a series and director/writer David Patrick Wilson has already worked up several Season 1 episodes.
Her appearance as Dolly in Mariam Bakashvilli’s offbeat dark comedy Goat is another illustration of Collins’ versatility. Moving from the hip riffing of the earlier Three for the Road into the much more idiosyncratic tale of a lovable loser struggling to save her relationship poses challenges that might flummox lesser performers, but it’s these sorts of improbable turns that Collins relishes and her performance promises to be one of the short film’s highlights.
Another stylistic 180 comes with a film currently in pre-production, Walkure, a short period work set in 1940’s Germany and co-starring Collins in the role of Helga. It is her second time working with director/writer Andre Irias after partnering on the prior multiple-award-winning work Perception. Writer/director Debbie Markowitz’s indie short The Prof, a drama with Anthony Robert Grasso in the title role, has Collins playing the role of Marigold as well as serving as the project’s Executive Producer. It is in pre-production, as well, and cameras are slated to start rolling later in 2022.
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Her ongoing musical projects bear mentioning as well. Collins works as the NBRC Youth Drama’s director. This role led to her recent involvement with The Agape League, a successful children’s musical comedy, and it’s only one of two musicals a year she helps stage for the Drama Club. Her position as Director of Music and Worship Arts calls on her to conduct the Hallelujah Chorus with the NBRC Chancel Choir and she’s incorporated violin, organ, trumpet, guitar, drums, and pipe organ into accompanying the traditional choir. Admirers can trust she will continue putting her stamp on the organization each new year.
The prodigious and consistent effort she shows to go the extra yard in her artistic and professional life makes her invaluable to any project lucky enough to benefit from her talents. Linda Collins doesn’t bring any prima donna inclinations but, instead, the willingness to fully commit herself to deserving work. You can’t ask for more than that in this increasingly fragmented age.
by Jennifer Munoz
