Marti Lyons most recently directed Cambodian Rock Band at Victory Gardens Theater. She also recently directed How to Defend Yourself for the 2019 Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville. This production is part of a co-world premiere with Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, where Marti will direct How to Defend Yourself again in 2019. Marti has also directed Witch (Writers Theatre); Botticelli in the Fire (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company); The Wolves and Kings (Studio Theater); Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (The Court Theatre); Short Shakes! Macbeth and Short Shakes! Romeo and Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Native Gardens (Victory Gardens Theatre); The Mystery of Love and Sex (Writers Theatre); Wit (The Hypocrites); and The City of Conversation (Northlight Theatre Company). She directed Wondrous Strange (2016 Humana Festival) and Title and Deed (Lookingglass Theatre Company). Other projects include The Merry Wives of Windsor and Twelfth Night (Montana Shakespeare in the Parks) Laura Marks’ Bethany, Marks’ Mine and Will Nedved’s Body and Blood (The Gift Theatre); Catherine Treischmann’s Hot Georgia Sunday and Theresa Rebeck’s Seminar (Haven Theatre); The Play About My Dad (Raven Theatre); Mai Dang Lao , 9 Circles and Maria/Stuart (Sideshow Theater). Next, Marti will remount Cambodian Rock Band, first with City Theater in Pittsburgh and then with Merrimack Repertory Theater in Lowell, MA. This season she will also direct The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess at Writers Theater, Jen Silverman’s The Moors at A Red Orchid Theatre, and The Scarlet Letter by Kate Hamill at South Coast Repertory. Marti is an ensemble member at The Gift Theatre, an Artistic Associate with Sideshow Theatre and a proud member of SDC. www.martilyons.com