Will is best known as the voice of PBS's award-winning journalism series FRONTLINE.
For the past several years, Will has worked almost exclusively in the Boston theatre community and has been consistently well-received by critics and audiences alike. His roles have included Apemantus in Shakespeare's little-performed Timon of Athens with Actors' Shakespeare Project; Joe Keller in Miller's All My Sons directed by David Esbjornson at the Huntington; Rex, an actor struggling with the effects of age on his work and his love life (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, The Oil Thief (Norton Award for Outstanding Achievement as an Actor); an actor “left behind by time” (New Rep Theatre, Exits and Entrances (Norton Award for Outstanding Achievement as an Actor); and a German psycho-chirologist who wrestles with his patients in Speakeasy Stage/BPT/40 Magnolias' premiere of The Wrestling Patient. In the fall of 2010, he will be Ralph Nickleby in the Lyric Theatre's production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
In 2008, he was one of four nominees for Best Actor at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
He has appeared in such television series as "Commander-in-Chief" and "Threat Matrix," and in the films "What Doesn't Kill You," "Little Children," "Mystic River," "The Siege," "A Perfect Murder" and "Welcome to the Dollhouse."
He is the father of actress Georgia Lyman, a member of Orfeo Group, whose production of Look Back in Anger was recognized with a Norton Award for Best Production by a Fringe Company.
He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, dedicated to free Shakespeare on Boston Common.
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