Jeanie Linders, writer and producer of Menopause The Musical^®, is the founder of the Jeanie C. Linders Fund®.

In the creation of the international hit show Menopause The Musical^®, Jeanie has always maintained that it is not about entertainment…but about women, which has become the philosophy of the Jeanie C. Linders Fund®.

While Jeanie is best known for her show, she 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 is a native of Dixon, Ill., and earned her graduate degree from Northern Illinois University. Her active involvement in the arts includes work as an arts development consultant in Florida, California, North Carolina and Arkansas. She launched Orlando’s first arts complex, ArtsMall. For 10 years, Linders was president/CEO of an advertising agency specializing in entertainment and hospitality accounts. Concurrently, she launched an event marketing and management firm, producing a variety of shows from A Conversation with Cary Grant to multistage music festivals.

Jeanie has worked overseas in various capacities including developing the Belize Performing and Visual Arts Consortium and taught high school in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

She has served as a columnist/correspondent for media outlets including The Chicago Tribune, The Sun-Times, The Boston Globe and Variety. In 2007, she was officially honored by Dixon, IL, President Ronald Reagan’s hometown, as an individual who has gone on to fulfill her life in meaningful ways and has made her hometown proud. She has written a book of poetry for and about women called Woman-Kind and was featured in Fearless Women: Midlife Portraits in 2005.

Currently, she is working on a new book series and web community called Hearing Voices and Leaving Trails.  Stay tuned!