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ACCLAIM

Elliot Norton Award
Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Achievement as an Actor ::
• Alan Brody’s Operation Epsilon (2013)
• Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night (2013)
• Joyce Van Dyke’s The Oil Thief (2009)
• Athol Fugard’s Exits and Entrances (2009)
2013 Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence
IRNE Award
2011 Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) Award
• Shakespeare’s King Lear (2016)
• Arthur Miller’s All My Sons (2011)
NETC Award
2015 New England Theatre Conference (NETC)
Special Award for Outstanding Achievement
in the American Theatre
2015 New England Theatre Conference (NETC) Special Award for Outstanding Achievement in the American Theatre
IRNE Award
2011 Screen Actor’s Guild Howard Keel Award

What an actor of Will Lyman’s stature brings to any given role is more than talent; more, even than the craft learned and honed during a lifetime on the stage.

What Lyman also brings is that ineffable, you-know-it-when-you-see-it quality known as presence.

Don Aucoin | The Boston Globe | Review of

‘Beckett in Brief’
 

No one quite ranks with Lyman as a narrator. As an authoritative off-camera voice, the man’s a rocket, an  audio auteur. No telling the number of documentaries I’ve watched while thinking how much better they would be were Lyman the narrator. He and his tubes are that good, his sense of pitch and instinct for the moment flawless. Not one misplaced vibrato. TV’s finest narrator.

Howard Rosenberg | The Los Angeles Times
 

… the extraordinary Will Lyman, a master at finding humanity in  characters who could easily be dismissed  as two-dimensional.

Terry Byrne | The Boston Globe | Review of

‘DollHouse’
 

Exits and Entrances … features a gem of a performance by Will Lyman as an aging actor confronting the dimming of his professional light …

Ed Siegel | The Boston Phoenix | Review of

‘Exits and Entrances’
 

Will Lyman provides the right note of ironic wit, even as the plot gets darker.

Peter Travers | Rolling Stone | Review of

‘Little Children’
 
Entertainment Weekly magazine recognized Will in a review of the film Little Children.
 

Lyman’s charismatic and troubling Trumpleman.

Louise Kennedy | The Boston Globe | Review of

‘King of the Jews’
 

A luminous and wrenching production.

Liza Weisstuch | The Boston Phoenix | Review of

‘King of the Jews’
 
Improper Bostonian magazine listed their picks of ‘Boston’s Best 2007’ and honored Will as ‘Best Local Actor.’
 

Lyman’s transformation from confident king to Nixonian cover-upper is a model piece of acting.

The Boston Globe | Review of Shakespeare’s

‘Hamlet’
 

The excellent Will Lyman … conveys the intense, almost savage energy of a man recovering from  emotional frostbite to confront old pain and new vulnerability.

The Boston Phoenix | Review of

‘Icebreaker’
 
Soup Cans interview.