Lyle Kessler is the author of the internationally acclaimed play Orphans, which recently received two Tony nominations for the Broadway revival starring Alec Baldwin and Ben Foster. Albert Finney won the Olivier Award in London’s West End production. Orphans will have a West End Revival in London’s Trafalgar Theater next season. Lyle’s other plays include: The Watering Place, Collision, Possession, Robbers, First Born, Unlisted, and Perp. His drama, The Great Divide, was named an LA Times Critic’s Pick. He is director of the New York Actors Studio Playwright/Directors Unit and is a member of the Labyrinth Theater Company. Lyle also served as artistic director of the Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab. He participated in the Sundance Screenwriters Conference in Hungary working with writers from all over Eastern Europe. He and his wife Margaret Ladd founded the Imagination Workshop, the longest running arts and mental health program worldwide. It still operates in LA working with vets suffering from PTSD, who write and act in a full-length play each year.
