LINDA GELMAN (Producer) is a founding member of Chicago City Limits. Prior to life with CCL, she was a dancer, choreographer and Artistic Director of the Gelman/Palidofsky Dance Theatre. She has performed in musicals and cabaret, including Rick Crom's MAC Award-winner Absolutely Rude, A Thurber Carnival, and It Just Ain't A Party Without You. On TV, she has appeared in Tales of the Unexpected and Reading Rainbow. She and Carol Schindler wrote and performed Rosa Krantz and Gilda Stern Aren't Dead. Most recently, she appeared in Larry Bell’s comedy MaRCK as a neurotic hooker. She and Paul Zuckerman are married and have three children, Zara, Philip and Eli.