Mary Mattison Vallery, Paul Paliyenko, Pamela Dunlap, Dorothy Lyman, Lisa Brescia, Julie Fishell and Jeffrey West Photo

From: Photo Flash: First Look at Lauren Kennedy, Lisa Brescia, and More in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY

Television audiences know her for her diversity of characters. For soap opera enthusiasts, Dorothy Lyman* is remembered for her work as Opal Gardner on All My Children. For sitcom fans, her brassy southern belle persona, Naomi Harper kept Mama's Family audiences in stitches. Now, the twotime Emmy Award© winning actress makes her way back to her first love, the stage, as Violet Weston in the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning masterpiece August: Osage County November 29- December 9 at the Fletcher Opera Theater.