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Michèle Lonsdale SmithMichèle trained at New York 's Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and has since acted in numerous film, television, and theatre projects over the last 20 years including most recently, the role of Mrs. Muller in the Arts Club production of Doubt by John Patrick Shanley. She is the Director of Lyric Studios, which she co-founded in 2001 and the Lyric Stage Project (LSP) she initiated in 2005. Over the past ten years, Michèle has mentored a multitude of working actors across Canada. As a stage director, she has to date helmed 15 productions including Judith Thompson's Lion in the Streets, Tennessee Williams' Night of the Iguana, the stage version of Leda Serene Films' A Winter Tale, Chekhov's Three Sisters featuring York University 's Master Ensemble, and the official inaugural LSP productions: Strindberg's Miss Julie and Dutchman by Amiri Baraka. Michèle will one day take her teaching and acting to other parts of the world including Trinidad, her birthplace, in an effort to expand her study across cultural and national borders. She is honored to be supported by a number of colleagues including co-board members and brothers in arms, Nick and Michael, a superb faculty led by old friends Nancy and Frank, who have taught at Lyric since inception, a dedicated and loyal staff led over the years by Suzanne Hepburn, Nathalie Therriault, Anna Williams, Yvette Dudley-Neuman, Marsha Regis and Sophie Ann Rooney, and of course all of Lyric’s alumni, actors who helped build Lyric from the ground up, painted, stripped, sawed and hammered, and whose courage and devotion early on at the studio, ensured Lyric’s enduring success.  
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