Linda Woolverton

About Linda

• I got my undergraduate degree in theater arts from California State University, Long Beach, and followed it with a master’s degree in theater for children from California State University, Fullerton.
• After graduating, I formed a children’s theater company, which performed plays in local malls, churches, and schools.
• I moved to Los Angeles because I wanted to get into the television industry so that I could reach more children.
• I got a job as a secretary at CBS—I was overqualified for the job, but it got my foot in the door of the industry.
• Eventually, I realized that I wanted to be on the artistic side of things, so I left my job and wrote a young adult novel.
• In order to make a living while working on my writing, I worked as a substitute teacher until I was offered a job to write a Saturday morning cartoon.
• After a few years, I decided I wanted to write for Disney, so I personally dropped my novel off at Disney’s offices hoping that someone would read it—two days later, I got a call for an interview.
• Since then, I’ve written the screenplays for various feature films, including “Beauty and the Beast,” “Alice in Wonderland,” and “Maleficent.”