Linda Blanchet obtained a Master’s degree from the University of Berkeley (California) and a Master’s degree in directing and dramaturgy from the University of Nanterre. In 2018, she joined the documentary workshop at FEMIS. Since 2019, she has been one of the associate artists at La Ruche at Le Zef – Scène nationale de Marseille and has been in residence at Théâtre de la Joliette.

In 2007, she founded Compagnie Hanna R and conducted research on contemporary writing. She is interested in autofiction and self-narrative in theater. Her projects often use documentary materials and blur the line between fiction and reality.

Linda Blanchet notably created the French adaptation of Personne ne voit la vidéo by Martin Crimp in 2008 (Théâtre National de Nice (TNN) and La Criée – Théâtre National de Marseille). She freely adapted Patrick Modiano’s novel Rue des boutiques obscures into L’homme des plages (TNN, CDN du Limousin). In 2014, she created Un homme qui dort based on Georges Perec’s work. In 2017, she directed and co-wrote Le voyage de Miriam Frisch, which was performed about sixty times in France and abroad. In 2019, she wrote Killing Robots, inspired by her investigation into the murder of hitchBOT, a hitchhiking robot created in Canada that was found dismembered in Philadelphia in 2015.

Linda Blanchet has also directed several performances for young audiences (Le Carnaval des animaux sud-américain with the Alma Viva ensemble at Théâtre Dunois and the Philharmonie in Paris, Swing Café, commissioned by the city of Boulogne-Billancourt with the jazz orchestra of the Conservatory). As an assistant and artistic collaborator on theater and opera productions with various directors, she has been working with David Lescot since 2013 (Les glaciers grondants, Les Ondes magnétiques, Une femme se déplace…).

She regularly teaches courses on the history of directing, dramaturgical analysis, and theater practice at the University of Nanterre, University of Paris 8, and University of Nice.