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Primarily a stage director, Linda Moore has worked at major theatres across Canada including the Shaw Festival, the Manitoba Theatre Centre, and The Vancouver Playhouse. She served as Artistic Director of Neptune Theatre in Halifax from 1990–2000, producing over 90 productions on two stages while leading the organization through a major renovation and expansion. She has also directed plays and operas and taught theatre classes at McGill University, Dalhousie University, the University of Victoria and the National Theatre School of Canada.
Her crime novel Foul Deeds was published by Vagrant Press in 2007.
She has received several Merritt Awards from Theatre Nova Scotia, and in 2005 she was awarded the Halifax Regional Municipality Mayor’s prize for Achievement in Theatre. In 1997 Linda Moore received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from St. Mary’s University in Halifax. From 2008-2010 she served as the Crake Fellow in Drama at Mount Allison University, where she directed Sharon Pollock's Blood Relations and Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa.