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Kathleen Turco-Lyon
is an actor, writer and teacher living in New York City.

Kathleen has been seen onstage at New Federal Theatre, The Culture Project, The Drama League, Madison Repertory Theatre, Folger Library Theatre, the Oregon, California & Nebraska Shakespeare Festivals, Oldcastle Theatre, TheatreWorks, Marin Theatre Company, San Jose Stage Company, and others. She is the recipient of a DramaLogue Award and received a Bay Area Critics Circle nomination for her portrayal of Madame de Merteuil in Les Liaisons Dangereuses .

Kathleen's teaching has been hosted by Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), Upon These Boards (Oakland, CA), University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC), California Shakespeare Festival (Orinda, CA), American Conservatory Theatre (San Francisco, CA), Solano Community College (Solano, CA), Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland & Portland, OR) and various workshops in New York City.

Writing work includes: Fools Fall co-adapted from Shakespeare's Timon of Athens with Randall Stuart, Under Construction: An American Collage, bobrauschenbergamerica (contributing writer) by Charles Mee, and The Oz Dock.

Training: Acting: Earle Gister, Lloyd Richards, Wynn Handman, Ted Pugh, Joanna Merlin, Anne Bogart/SITI Company, Tadashi Suzuki, Oleg Kissilev, Wendell Phillips. Speech: Kristin Linklater, Sarah Kane. Mask: Per Brahe. Alexander: Eleanor Rosenthal. Writing: Charles Mee, Liz Duffy Adams, Brooke Berman, Lisa D'Amour, Karen Hartman, Dominic Taylor.

Kathleen developed the Creating Character Through Gesture workshop based on the teachings and exercises of Michael Chekhov, Anne Bogart and others; an organic approach assisting actors in the creation and development of a character. The work may be adapted to actors, groups of actors, full casts, writers and directors. Workshops can be booked nationally and internationally.

Link here for further information on Kathleen's Gesture Workshop

To facilitate in a classroom, there is a mastery and magic which must be called upon. To present Great Thought (and have it matter to the student) is a gift. Teaching is a supreme art form, and we each have a handful of teachers whom we cherish for taking us on the path. It is my belief that Kathleen is such a one. I often engage her to co-create and lead workshops, both at the graduate level and on theatre projects - and her work with my various ensembles is superb. The Gesture work triggers immediate and dazzling results. She is collaborative and investigative, possesses a divine imagination as well as a most practical regard for the actor. Kathleen is one of America's finest stage actors, bringing a brave awakening and a keen insight to her work and character development. - Randall Stuart