Board

Officers
President: Linda Lee
Vice President: Missy Ricker
Secretary: Matthew Sefick
Treasurer: BettyLynn Allison

Board members
Martin Bluford
Linda Eisen
Jason Gourdine
James L. Heyward
Robert Hopkins
Dan Jones
Harrison Palmer

Advisors

Rob Glasser
Jean-Marc Khayat
Rhett D. Klok
Ron Tucker

2022-2023

CFA Board of Directors & Advisors

Board

Linda Eisen

Coastal Talent
Photo of Linda Eisen

Biographical Info

Linda Eisen has been the owner of Coastal Talent since 2006. Coastal Talent represents professional actors and provides Casting Services for Film, Television, Commercial, Industrial, Print, and Voice Over work throughout the Southeast Region.

Linda received a BFA in Theatre from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. She studied in Brazil with director Augusto Boal and redesigned and directed the Town Crier Summer Theatre of Historic Philadelphia, Inc. She was a co-artistic director of the PA Repertory Theatre, a PA Council on the Arts Roster Artist, the director of the Theatre Program at the Red Rock Job Corps Center, and director of the touring Holocaust Education play Dear Esther.

After relocating to Charleston in 2005, Linda was Artistic Director for “Edgar Allen Poe: Back From the Grave” and has worked extensively in Charleston theatre. Linda’s focus is bringing excellence and integrity to the Southeast film industry.

Linda serves on the Membership and Outreach committee of the CFA which works on projects including partnering with the Terrace Theatres’ Film Festival in March, which will feature a CFA block of films shot in South Carolina.

Categories: Board Member 2022-2023

Advisors

Linda Eisen

Coastal Talent
Photo of Linda Eisen

Biographical Info

Linda Eisen has been the owner of Coastal Talent since 2006. Coastal Talent represents professional actors and provides Casting Services for Film, Television, Commercial, Industrial, Print, and Voice Over work throughout the Southeast Region.

Linda received a BFA in Theatre from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. She studied in Brazil with director Augusto Boal and redesigned and directed the Town Crier Summer Theatre of Historic Philadelphia, Inc. She was a co-artistic director of the PA Repertory Theatre, a PA Council on the Arts Roster Artist, the director of the Theatre Program at the Red Rock Job Corps Center, and director of the touring Holocaust Education play Dear Esther.

After relocating to Charleston in 2005, Linda was Artistic Director for “Edgar Allen Poe: Back From the Grave” and has worked extensively in Charleston theatre. Linda’s focus is bringing excellence and integrity to the Southeast film industry.

Linda serves on the Membership and Outreach committee of the CFA which works on projects including partnering with the Terrace Theatres’ Film Festival in March, which will feature a CFA block of films shot in South Carolina.

Categories: Board Member 2022-2023