Molly Lyons ::
Ms. Lyons (Playwright/Actress) is a member of American & Canadian Actors' Equity Associations, a member of the Dramatists’ Guild and has been a professional actor for 25 years, performing at repertory theatres and festivals up and down the west coast including La Jolla Playhouse, New Mexico Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre and once at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Her training includes: Santa Clara University, California Institute of the Arts and with the Royal Shakespeare Company.  Ms. Lyons is an international acting instructor, specializing in classical & auditioning workshops.  Her solo show, A Most Notorious Woman, has been performed in part or wholly at: The International Conference of Irish Studies, University of Puget Sound; Artistic New Directions Works-in-Progress Festival, New York City; the Green Wood Studio’s Excelsior Stage Works-in-Progress & New Works Festivals; The American Collegiate Theatre Festival Regional Conference, Boise State University; The Irish Week Festival at the Seattle Center; the world premiere at Bas Bleu Theatre, Ft. Collins, CO; an Ireland tour in October of 2001 and Canadian premiere of the show in January, 2002, at Pacific Theatre in Vancouver, BC.  We look forward to our command performance, by invitation of the O'Malley Chieftain, to perform for the clan at the notorious O'Malley Ralley in June of 2003 and the extended County Mayo tour in August of 2003.

Martin Stillion ::
Martin Stillion (Composer/Musician) began playing classical viola at an early age and, since then, has added to his repertoire the fiddle, mandolin, bouzouki, tenor guitar, mandocello, and more. He has played bluegrass, old-time country ballads, and contemporary Celtic music with bands up and down the West Coast. He has performed from Hawaii to Vermont with the Ric Blair Band and Shaky Situation. Mr. Stillion's classical involvement includes Seattle's Thalia Symphony, California's Symphony of the Canyons, and the Seattle Mandolin Orchestra. He has appeared in theatrical productions at several Seattle area theatres. Stillion's composition work includes songs for productions of Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT and A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM as well as his NOTORIOUS compositions. For that production, Mr. Stillion uses several traditional Irish tunes and original compositions influenced by Celtic, English court music, baroque, blues and avant garde idioms. Stillion has recently released a CD of these NOTORIOUS tunes, available at his website.

The show is directed by Steve Scott of the Goodman Theatre, Chicago.  

Steve Scott ::
Mr. Scott is arguably Chicago's busiest, award winning theatre director. Since 1987 he has been Associate Producer at the Goodman Theatre, where he has overseen over 90 productions, recently including "Wit" winning the After Dark Award for Outstanding Direction. Other recent directing credits include "Mirandolina" at the Noble Fool Theatre; "Childe Byron" and "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale" for the Eclipse Theatre; the world premiere of "The Gambit" at the Theatre Building; "Fit to be Tied" for Frump Tucker Theatre Company; "Class Enemy" for Red Hen Productions; "The Time of Your Life" and "Picnic" for Roosevelt University (where he is a faculty member); "Love! Valour!Compassion!" and "After Play" for Organic Touchstone; and "Orphans" for CT20 Ensemble (Jeff Citation Nomination). Steve is even an award winning actor, in the Next Theatre's production of "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been...?" (Jeff Award for Outstanding Ensemble).

Other Goodman productions: world premiere of Tom Mula's "Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol"; the 1989 through 1992 productions of "A Christmas Carol"; "A Midsummer Night's Dream," which he co-directed with Michael Maggio. And with other companies: "Rough for Theatre #1" for Splinter Group's "Buckets O' Beckett" Festival; "Club Soda" at the National Jewish Theatre; "Talking AIDS to Death" at Lifeline Theatre; "Die Fledermaus" for the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists; "A Change in the Heir" and "Nightingale" (Jeff Citation nomination) for New Tuners Theatre.

Mr. Scott has recently directed Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the St Lawrence Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Canada, both productions starring Molly Lyons as Beatrice and Titania/Hippolyta respectfully. 

Mr. Scott has served on advisory panels for the Chicago Office of Fine Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and currently serves as an NEA site evaluator and a member of the Jeff Committee's Artistic and Technical Team. He is an artistic associate of the About Face Theatre, a member of the Eclipse Theatre ensemble, and one of five resident directors for WBEZ's Stories on Stage. Mr. Scott is also a faculty member at Columbia College, and received the Award of Honor from the Illinois Theatre Association.

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