About Writer/Producer
Jeanie Linders

Jeanie Linders is best known as the writer and producer of Menopause The Musical® and is a passionate voice for a generation of women facing more than just hot flashes. Her work in entertainment spans three decades, but finding ways to help women connect and support one another is what she focuses on now.

Jeanie has been involved in the arts for the last 30 years. For 10 years, she was president/CEO of an advertising agency that specialized in entertainment and hospitality accounts. Concurrently, she launched an events marketing and management firm, producing a full gamut of shows from A Conversation with Cary Grant to multistage music festivals featuring hundreds of performers from Ella and Mel to B.B., James, and Miles. Her festival mania was launched through her work for George Wein, the daddy of the Newport, New Orleans, and all other great jazz festivals. Jeanie has served as an arts development consultant in Florida, California, North Carolina, and Arkansas: she launched Orlando's first arts complex and incubator housing 125 visual artists and 30 performing arts groups.

She was an advance PR roadie for Michael Jackson's film crew for the Victory Tour, developed the Belize Performing and Visual Arts Consortium, plus worked for Francis Ford Coppola's Blancaneaux Lodge in Central America. She taught high school in Montego Bay, Jamaica, and has served as a columnist/correspondent for outlets as diverse as the Chicago Tribune, the Sun-Times, the Boston Globe, and Variety.

Menopause The Musical® opened in Orlando, Fla., in March of 2001 in a perfume shop converted into a theatre. To date, the show has been seen by nearly 9 million women in 12 countries and continues to grow. The musical has been credited with bringing the topics of aging and menopause to the forefront; however, it is just the beginning for Jeanie. A passionate voice for her generation, Jeanie has used the popularity of the show to reach and connect women all over the world.

The Jeanie C. Linders Fund, me* Magazine, and Menopause The Musical Out Loud: Breaking the Silence of Ovarian Cancer^TM Tour are just three of the things Jeanie has founded to help achieve her mission to give a voice to women of the baby boomer generation, women in developing countries, women suffering from ovarian cancer, and others. Jeanie is author of Woman-Kind, a book of poetry for and about women. She is one of the 50 women profiled in Fearless Women: Midlife Portraits (2005), an inspirational book featuring stories of women ranging in age from 40-60. Their stories are told alongside their pictures capturing the experiences of just a few of the 38 million women of the baby boomer generation.

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