About

Bruce Linser is a freelance director, actor, singer, teacher, and coach. He has directed and performed in plays and musicals across the country including his own cabaret shows featuring selections from the Great American Songbook and Broadway shows. He is also a private coach for acting and musical theatre and is available for master classes at college and university theatre programs.​

Headshots by Bachi Frost

Upcoming Projects

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> Bruce directs Everything Beautiful Happens At Night by Ted Malawer at Island City Stage April 2nd though May 3rd, 2026.
In the mid-1980's, a closeted, successful children's book writer risks his career and his relationship with his best friend and editor when he meets a young man who changes his life. A beautifully crafted love story about how we hide from each other and about being true to ourselves, and the personal, political, and social ramifications of not being willing to do either. 

> Bruce appears as Nico/Gallo in the workshop reading of The Last Queen of San Domino by Chandler Hubbard at Theatre Lab on Saturday, April 25th, 2026.
In the 1930's, Mussolini decided to rid Italy of homosexuals by quietly "disappearing" them to a prison on the island of San Domino. With biting humor, poetic pathos, magical realism, and fierce dancing, Chandler Hubbard brings the memory of all the victims - prisoners and guards alike - back to life so we will never forget the atrocities that unchecked fascism and political power can wreak on "the rest of us."

> Bruce directs The Light in the Piazza by Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas at Palm Beach Dramaworks February 5-28, 2027. The production will transfer to the Waxlax Stage at Riverside Theatre in March & April of 2027.
In this lyrical, shimmering musical, winner of multiple Tony Awards, Margaret Johnson takes a trip to Italy in the summer of 1953 with her daughter, Clara, a beautiful, childlike young woman. Clara falls in love with Fabrizio, a handsome Florentine who wants to marry her. The protective Margaret, trying to come to terms with her own unhappy marriage, must decide whether to allow her determined, challenged daughter to follow her heart.

> Bruce is writing the book for a new musical called Prodigals featuring bluegrass and folk songs written by The Lubben Brothers. Watch this space for info on further developments!​

In the summer of 1950, shared tragedy reunites an estranged West Virginia family against their will. As their secrets, lies, loves, and resentments are revealed, will the choices they make bring them closer together or tear them apart forever? Loosely inspired by the story of the prodigal son, PRODIGALS explores the humanity behind our collective need for connection, forgiveness, belonging, and a place to call home.

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