Kathleen Turco-Lyon

Kathleen Turco-Lyon (she/her/hers). Recent roles include Countess Roussillon/'All's Well' (Wendy Franz; director) and Volumnia/'Coriolanus' (Anthony Powell; directer) at Colorado Shakespeare Festival, and Margaret / 'A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky' for an online ('pandemic') offering directed by John Tucker for Rep:Unlocked (UK).  She has also appeared Off-Broadway (New Federal; The Culture Project; Urban Stages), and regionally at TheatreSquared, Opera House Arts, Pittsburgh Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Oldcastle, Opera House Arts, and others.  Past roles also include Prospero/'The Tempest', Madame Arkadina/'The Seagull', Queen Elizabeth I/'Elizabeth Rex',  directed by Peter Richards, and LadyBird Johnson/'All The Way' (Benny Sato Ambush; director).  She played the title role in her co-adaptation (w/director Randall Stuart) of Shakespeare's 'Timon of Athens' (titled: 'Fools Fall'),  produced by Gemma Whelan (under the title 'Tymon'). The Pittsburgh Post Gazette awarded Kathleen  'Outstanding Supporting Actor' for the role of Barbara/'August: Osage County', and she received a Drama-Logue Award and Bay Area Critics Circle Nom. for her portrayal of Madame de Merteuil/ 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'. Kathleen has taught acting at Cornell University and Point Park University, and as a guest artist taught 'Creating Character Through Gesture' workshops (based on the work of M. Chekhov) at Mills College, UNC-Chapel Hill, Point Park University, Nebraska Shakespeare Festival, and others. She has adapted two novels by Henry James into full length plays; 'Young Days' (4W/4M ~ based on 'The Europeans') and 'The Awkward Age' (4W/6M), and is credited as a contributing writer of bobrauschenbergamerica by Charles Mee. Her play-in-process (*working title) is: Beneath Between; A Kitchen Sink Magical Realist Comic Drama.  Kathleen is indebted to a long list of teachers including Earle Gister, Lloyd Richards, Anne Bogart, Tadashi Suzuki, Kristin Linklater, Charles Mee, Patsy Rodenberg, Harry Burton, and Wendell K. Phillips, and continues to learn from, and with, Actors Center colleagues Peter Jay Fernandez, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Grace Zandarski, Welker White, Damien Young, and many others.  Proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, The Dramatists Guild, and The Actors Center.  

Land acknowledgment: Kathleen's home,  New York City, is a small part of the 'Northeastern Woodlands', the traditional homeland ('Lenapehoking') of the Leni Lenape people.