Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC)
Director, A Bold Stroke For A Husband (2026)
Emily Lyon (Director) is Artistic Director of Expand the Canon – a call to action to include a global intersection of historic women writers in the canon of classics. For ETC, she’s lead partnerships across the country including Classic Stage Company, The Folger, Fiasco Theater, Roundabout, INTAR, Island Shakespeare Festival, The Acting Company, and more. Lyon has directed 10 world premieres and 13 classics. Dramaturgy work includes 25+ new plays, including Kate Hamill’s Sense & Sensibility and Diana Ly’s Sex and the Abbey, and text work for The Tempest directed by Michael Greif for Shakespeare in the Park.
Artistic Director (Expand the Canon).
Director: Anima, Bold Stroke for a Husband (Island Shakespeare Festival: Expand the Canon partnership), Sex and the Abbey by Diana Ly (The Brick), Men on Boats (University of Michigan), #yourmemorial (Pigeonholed Theatre), Mary Stuart, A Taste of Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Secret in the Wings, Women of Williams County, Interior: Panic (Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre), How We Hear by Emily Lyon (The Brick, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center), The Summoning by Charlotte Ahlin (sheNYC), Sword and the Stone/The Tempest (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), Some of the Side Effects by Dave Shaw (UnitedSolo), As You Like It (Geva Theatre Directing Fellow), The Arsonists (DCTV Firehouse).
Dramaturgy & Readings: Bilingual Hamlet with Christin Eve Cato (The Folger, The Acting Company), The Verge (Fiasco Theater: Expand the Canon partnership), The Sons of Erin (Irish Repertory Theatre: Expand the Canon partnership), Environmental Justice Card Game (The Civilians R&D Group), The Tempest (text work for Shakespeare in the Park, directed by Michael Greif), Sense & Sensibility by Kate Hamill (BEDLAM, NYTimes Critic’s Pick).
2025 Barbara Whitman Award Finalist, Drama League Directing Fellow, Geva Directing Fellow, Best Director & Best Production (The Summoning), Best Premiere (Some of the Side Effects), Best Ensemble (…Williams County), SDCF Observership
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Theatre Directing – Summa Cum Laude
A cheating husband. A clever wife. A scandal rewritten. Hannah Cowley’s A Bold Stroke for a Husband lights up Madrid with secrets, social satire, and a woman in disguise who’s three steps ahead.