The Writers Studio coalesces the talents of established, accomplished communications professionals. Our Partners/Principal Writers and a group of talented Associate Writers offer strategic-communications and copy-agency services to clients in a number of fields. 

We serve clients in the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area and in the mid-Atlantic region, as well as nationally and internationally.

Jump to more information about a principal: Russ Allen | Linda Wolohan

Russ Allen has 18 years of experience as a professional writer, editor, and communications-team leader. He formed The Writers Studio in 1995 to bring the services of experienced professionals together in a communications and copywriting agency and writers group.

Russ has extensive experience in project management for communications in print and other media.  He has a proven record in consulting with, and assisting clients in, planning and creatively conceptualizing written and visual communications.  His clients include major medical centers and health systems, and software solutions companies, as well as clients in education and industry. He has broad skills as a generalist freelance writer and special experience in science and technical subject matter for both academic and promotional formats.

As a partner, Russ helps to coordinate and directly provide Writers Studio services on a cost-per-project basis.  Russ and his coworkers can serve as an outsourced extension of their clients’ in-house communication staffs.

Russ’ successful practice as a Freelance Writer and Editor, led him to form The Writers Studio.  He has served clients large and small in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors, providing all types of skills needed for a variety of strategic communications.

Russ was previously a Marketing Writer and then Director of Medical Communications at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, where he led a staff of writers providing communications to professional audiences and the public, covering all areas of healthcare. At the university, Russ had earlier worked as a Development/Fundraising Writer.

Russ has a Master of Science in science and technical communications, magna cum laude, from Drexel University.  He also earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology, cum laude, from the University of Virginia.   He has both research and clinical experience in healthcare.  He served as a senior patient-care technician at Jefferson Medical College. He completed three research internships at the National Institutes of Health as well as a year of additional science studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

As part of his pro bono work, Russ serves as President of the Board of the Clean Air Council.

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Linda Wolohan has more than 20 years of experience as a public relations and marketing-communications practitioner, as an editor, and as a reporter.  She became a partner at The Writers Studio in September 1995, specializing in corporate and nonprofit marketing communications.

Linda’s services include designing and implementing strategic communications, as well as providing copywriting, editing, and project management for internal and external communications. Her for-profit clients represent a broad range of industries, including financial services (banking, asset management, financial planning, and insurance), utilities, jewelry and home-accessories manufacturing, and consulting.  Her nonprofit clients are focused on community services, child welfare, and education.

Prior to consulting, Linda served as Vice President and Public Relations Manager for PNC Asset Management Group, for which she launched a communications program.  She coordinated investment communications for this investment-management line of business of PNC Bank.  (PNC Asset Management Group has since been spun off into BlackRock Inc.)  Her responsibilities included creating and managing media-relations strategy, writing and developing senior-management communications, and working with the bank’s other lines of business to write and produce investment-management client communications.

Before being named to that post, Linda served as Manager of Corporate Communications for PNC Bank’s Philadelphia market.  She was responsible for media relations, employee communications, senior-management communications, community-relations communications, and client publications.  She also managed PNC’s name-change project in the Philadelphia market.

Before joining PNC Bank, Linda was a Copy Editor and Features Writer for the Philadelphia Business Journal.  She had also served as Editor of Health Sciences at Northwestern University, with media relations responsibility for the university’s highly renowned medical and dental schools.  Earlier, Linda was employed as a Copy Editor for the Midwest Division of the international news wire service United Press International.  She was later promoted to General Assignment Reporter and General Desk Editor, directing and editing stories of nationwide importance from the Midwest.  She started her career as a technical writer for Montgomery Ward and Co., developing employee-training manuals.

Linda holds a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Michigan State University.  She studied international business at the Institute for American Universities in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Linda is a member of the Philadelphia Public Relations Association. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Youth Services Inc., a child abuse and neglect-prevention nonprofit agency in Philadelphia, and Board Co-Chair of the agency’s yearlong 50^th anniversary celebration.

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