About Me
Playwright, Director, Actor & Producer
Linda Selman has developed, directed and written plays for Off-Broadway, including the two Emmy Award-winning Bubbe Meises/Bubbe Stories; Award-winning Tallulah Hallelujah! Starring Tovah Feldshuh; From My Lady’s Diary: Marie Antoinette at the Vineyard Theater. As an actress, she has starred on Broadway as well as Off-Broadway, in Regional Theaters and on Film, including William Shakespeare’s Richard III, opposite Al Pacino, and Tennessee Williams’s Cat On A Hot Tin Roof opposite Armand Assante. Her stage adaptation and direction of Edith Wharton’s Bunner Sisters was produced Off-Broadway at the Metropolitan Playhouse, Gilded Age Festival. Staged readings of the play were presented at the National Arts Club, the New York Society Library, the Salmagundi Club, with excerpts at the Players Club. Regionally, her works have been produced at the Helen Hays Theatre, the Eugene O’Neil Center, the White Barn, Queens Theatre In The Park, and at Hartford’s TheaterWorks.
Author
Linda Selman has been published in the Edith Wharton Review, Wharton In The News, and The New York Review of Books. She has given Author Talks based on her discoveries about Alexander Hamilton's great-nephew H. C. Bunner and Edith Wharton from her historical-mystery-biography The Inadvertent Researcher: A New York Story at the Salmagundi Club, the Dutch Treat Club, the East Hampton Library, the Nutley Historical Society Museum, the Nutley Library, the Coffee House Club, the National Arts Club, and the New York Society Library. The Inadvertent Researcher: A New York Story can be purchased at the bookstore of Edith Wharton’s home The Mount in Lenox, Massachusetts, the Nutley Historical Society Museum in Nutley, New Jersey, and by contacting Ms. Selman at her email address found on this site. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Actors’ Equity and Chairman of the Theatre Committee at the National Arts Club.
Curator
Linda Selman’s H. C. Bunner Collection can be seen at the Nutley Historical Society Museum in Nutley, New Jersey from November 2017 through July of 2018 as part of the exhibition The World of H. C. Bunner: Changing the Tastes of America from New York to Nutley. She is co-curator along with John Simko, the museum’s Director. The exhibit is in celebration of H. C. Bunner’s Induction into the Nutley Hall of Fame for which she accepted the honor for the Bunner family. The exhibit is free of charge and open to the public. After December 2017, tours are available at the museum by making an appointment with Suzanne at 973-667-4270. The Nutley Historical Society Museum is located at 65 Church Street, Nutley, N.J. 07110.