Will is best known as the voice of PBS's award-winning journalism series FRONTLINE.
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."
Will’s four stage performances in the past year were as a playwright whose government threatens to brand him a non-combatant terrorist (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Patriot Act; Best Actor nomination), 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 (Speakeasy Stage/BPT/40 Magnolias, The Wrestling Patient.)
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 serves on the Board of Trustees of the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, dedicated to free Shakespeare on Boston Common.
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