Biography
Biz Lyon is an actor and director based in Central London. She was born in Kentucky and has trained at The Juilliard School in New York and received her MFA in acting from East 15 Acting School in London.
Biz's recent acting work in London includes the title role and multiple roles in Yaga, an Arts Council–funded play at The Drayton Arms. Other recent work: a role on the Showtime series The Man Who Fell to Earth and a role in George Clooney's film The Boys in the Boat. Biz toured as Lady Jane Wilde in Vengeance: The Demise of Oscar Wilde, a new musical, and played Olivia in Twelfth Night at the Tea House Theatre in Vauxhall. She has also played Hovstad in An Enemy of the People at the Bridewell Theatre, May in The Things That Were There at The Hen & Chickens, Marlene in Top Girls, and starred in the one-woman Civil War–era show A World Kicked to Pieces, which is based on the memoirs of Mary Boykin Chesnut. Biz's most recent directing projects were for Little Lion's Stories from the Past and Stories from Home series in which she directed Mrs. Kray, The Florrons' Cake, and Across the Causeway, all new plays from Canadian writers. Her other directing credits include Love's Labours Lost, Crimes of the Heart, and Tobacco Road.
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