Susan Lyons

Lyons' television appearances include: A Country Practice, Police Rescue,^[1] Murder Call, Farscape, Something in the Air and All Saints.

Her film appearances include: The Good Wife,^[2] No Worries,^[3] In a Savage Land,^[4] Black and White, Corroboree, Martin Four and Napoleon.

Lyons starred in the 1998 Australian Christmas film Crackers, playing single mother Hilary who hates Christmas.^[5]

Lyons has also appeared extensively in stage productions for many of the major theatre companies in Australia, including Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, State Theatre Company of South Australia and Bell Shakespeare. She has appeared in such titles as Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Comedy of Errors, The Vagina Monologues, The Beggar’s Opera, As You Like It, Pygmalion, Measure for Measure and Two Weeks with the Queen.

Her most recent credits includes work as an associate director on the 2003 Broadway production of I Am My Own Wife directed by Moisés Kaufman^[6] which was also staged in Melbourne in 2006. She also adapted a version of A Christmas Carol, which has been staged on Broadway and throughout the US from 2018 onward.

She has also narrated the audio book version of Incendiary, by Chris Cleave.^[7]

Lyons is married to Tony Award-winning theatre and film actor Jefferson Mays. They first met in 2002 when Lyons saw Mays perform in a production of Outward Bound at the Westport Country Playhouse, in Connecticut.^[8]