BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – Chicago may be miles away from the Great White Way, but Illinois Wesleyan University alumna Marti Lyons learned on Tuesday that Tony can still come calling to the Windy City.
The 2008 alumna and theater major is the literary manager and dramaturg for the Lookingglass Theatre in Chicago, which was bestowed a Tony Award® for Regional Theatre. The Tony was announced Tuesday morning, along with the Tony nominations for Broadway shows.
“Everyone here is ecstatic. There’s no other way to put it,” said Lyons, who has worked for the theater since August of 2010. “There is such a value on collaborative work here, and respect for each other’s work, that it really feels as though we can all celebrate.”
This isn’t the first Tony-award winning regional theater for which Lyons has worked. In the past, she has worked with the Steppenwolf Theatre and the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where she was an assistant director for a production of As You Like It last year. She remains active in directing, taking the helm of the Chicago premiere of José Rivera’s Brainpeople last November for the Urban Theater Company in Chicago.