sybilline or sibylline ‘sib-al-lin, -,len adjective 1. mystical prophesy 2. secret message
Sybilline Productions has enjoyed success with conventional venues as well as site-specific environments, interactive ‘immersive’ projects and promenade-theatre where audiences change locations during performance. Fresh approaches to classical material can inspire an audience while still offering actors the chance to flex their muscles with the concentrated language and powerful psychic somersaults often demanded by great playwrights. Private coaching and Group Courses for Actors are ongoing. Workshops and seminars for non-actors are available by emailing SYBIL@SYBILLINES.COM
Sybil Lines (Founding Director & Coach) started her career as Marion Lines but now uses her middle name. In productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company and leading roles in Time and the Conways; Man for All Seasons; Roses of Eyam and Tilted Scales she worked alongside Dame Judi Dench, Roger Rees, John Barton, Braham Murray, David Suchet, John Nettles and Robert Lindsay. Her Broadway credits include Dora in Waiting in the Wings with Lauren Bacall; Kate in Bedroom Farce with John Lithgow; Lettice & Lovage with Dame Maggie Smith and Aren’t We All with Lynn Redgrave. Leading roles at Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout and other off-Broadway and regional theatres include Ruth in Blithe Spirit with Christine Baranski; Grace in The Philanderer; Marta with Alfred Drake in No Hiding Place; Irene Adler opposite Keith Baxter’s Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Scott with Judith Ivey in Whose Life Is It, Anyway?; Sofya Tolstoy in Last Station with Jerome Kilty; David McCallum’s wife in Run for Your Wife and Mrs. Warren in Mrs. Warren’s Profession. She was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for Varya in The Cherry Orchard; performed Icemaiden for Sweden’s Strindberg Museum in Stockholm; was directed by Marge Champion in Stepping Out as Vera; by Alan Schneider in Footfalls and by Michael Kahn in Woman of No Importance as Mrs. Alonby with Dixie Carter. Her Shakespearean roles include Viola, Rosalind, Mistress Quickly, Mistress Ford, Juliet’s Nurse, Gertrude, Lady Capulet, Alice, Maria, Portia, the Princess of France, and Lady Macbeth.Screen credits include Murder She Wrote, Hogan Family, Mickey Blue Eyes and Edge of Night. Teaching credits include Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York City and London’s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Sybilline Productions: The word for ‘prophetic message’, similar to Sybil’s name, was suggested as an apt choice for storytelling ventures.
For additional bio & teaching credits, please visit www.sybillines.com
Classes offer students the opportunity to expand their skills with extraordinary roles from master playwrights. Photographs clockwise from top right: The Balcony/GENET (Jade Anderson); Rhinoceros/IONESCO (Sara Dobronich, Mark Couchot); Night & Day/ STOPPARD (Isreal Scott, James Miller); Eumenides/ AESCHYLUS (Jorge Paniagua); Yerma/LORCA (Sophie Vanier); Tartuffe/ MOLIERE (Sheldon Woodley, Jennifer Martina); Golden Boy/ ODETS (Joe Caruncho); King Lear/ SHAKESPEARE (Roland Sanchez, Vincent Cooper); ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore/ JOHN FORD (Mizan Nunes-Kirby)