emily lyon
director & story editor
My Work
Below is my theatre resume. For more film, advertising, branding, writing, etc, see my LinkedIn page or email emasuntalyon@gmail.com
Theatre
Directing
Honors
Drama League Directing Fellow
Geva Theatre Directing Fellow
Summa Cum Laude
Henshaw Directing Scholarship
Friends of Theatre & Drama
Scholarship
Phi Kappa Phi
Angell Scholar
University Honors
The Sword and the Stone/
The Tempest (tour, premiere)
The Summoning
Women of Williams County
Breaking 100
Drama League Directing Fellow
As You Like It
The North Pool (staged read)
Vanity Fair (staged read)
Some of the Side Effects
Interior: Panic
Just to Get Married (staged read)
The Arsonists
Sonnet #69 (film)
The Hothouse
Trump Rally
Get Versed Poetry Event
Measure for Measure
Hamlet
Bright Ideas
Quad Life (staged reading)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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by Mona Smith
by Charlotte Ahlin
by Karly Thomas
by Michael Bonventre
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by William Shakespeare
by Rajiv Joseph
by Kate Hamill
by David Shaw
by Tennessee Williams
by Cicely Hamilton
by Max Frisch
for The Sonnet Project
by Harold Pinter
by Sean Pollock
for InsideOut Literary Arts
by William Shakespeare
by William Shakespeare
by Eric Coble
by Lauren Jordan
by William Shakespeare
Skills
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
ADOBE INDESIGN
ADOBE PREMIERE
FINAL CUT PRO
HEADSHOTS/PHOTOGRAPHY
POWERPOINT
WORD
EXCEL
VIDEO/AUDIO EQUIPMENT
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
New York Theatre Festival *Best Actress Nom
M.I.T.F. *Won Best Ensemble
Gene Frankel Theatre
Classical Program
SUNY Brockport, Geva Directing Fellow
Hornet's Nest, Geva Theatre
HVSF2, Hudson Valley Shakespeare
United Solo Festival, NYC *Won Best Premiere
FringeNYC, Hedgepig Ensemble *Won Best Actress
The Pearl Theatre, Pick Your Poison
DCTV Firehouse, NYC
New York Shakespeare Exchange
Studio One
The Dirty Blonde's Resistor Project
Detroit Institute of Art Film Theatre
Mendelssohn Theatre
Mendelssohn Theatre
Studio One
U.Michigan Playfest, *Hopwood Award Winner
Whittier Auditorium
Literary
Literary Manager
Dramaturg
Editor
Production Assistant
Production Assistant
Script Editor/PA
Story Director/Writer
Theatre BEDLAM
Sense & Sensibility
Some of the Side Effects
In The Labyrinth (workshop)
Sumner Falls (reading)
Readings for Julie Taymor
Filmic Productions
BEDLAM, 2014 - 2016
BEDLAM, dir. Eric Tucker, by Kate Hamill *NYTimes Critics' Pick
United Solo, by David Shaw *Best Premiere
Yale Rep, dir. Rachel Chavkin, by Dan LaFranc
dir. Charles Goforth, by Michael Parsons
Theatre for a New Audience, NYC
Filmic Productions: Co-founder, 2011-2013
Dead Dog Park
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
The Tempest
Boris Godunov
Orphan of Zhao
The Winter's Tale
Hamlet (Off- Broadway)
Julius Caesar
Much Ado About Nothing
Cloud 9
Merry Wives of Windsor
The Winter's Tale
Self Defense
Assistant Directing
dir. Eric Tucker
dir. Michael Greif
dir. Rebecca Taichman
dir. Jim Calder
dir. Sir Michael Boyd
dir. Greg Doran
dir. Michael Sexton
dir. Eric Tucker
dir. Damon Horowitz
dir. Kate Mendeloff
dir. Tim Ocel
dir. Kate Mendeloff
dir. Kate Mendeloff
dir. Emilie Samuelsen
BEDLAM, 59E59
The Public's Shakespeare in the Park, SDCF Observership
Old Globe Theatre - Drama League Directing Fellow
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival - Drama League Fellow
Royal Shakespeare Company residency
Royal Shakespeare Company residency
The Pearl Theatre, NYC
BEDLAM, Lynn Redgrave Theatre
The Oracular Theatre, NYC
Shakespeare in the Arb
University Productions
Shakespeare in the Arb
Shakespeare in the Arb
Rude Mechanicals, MI
More Shakespeare
Ambassador Program
Assistant Teacher: "Shakespeare on Stage"
Globe Summer Program
Associate Producer
Shakespeare Society, NYC
University of Michigan, Prof. Martin Walsh
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London
Rude Mechanicals, MI
2010 - present
2010 - present
Education
University of Michigan – BFA: Directing
​Summa Cum Laude