Lyall is an award-winning actor, theatre director and teaching artist with over two decades experience, and is the founding Artistic Director of Australian new writing theatre company, Lab Kelpie.

His professional theatre credits include North by Northwest (Arts Centre Melbourne), Savages (fortyfivedownstairs), Penelope and The Pride (Red Stitch), The Heretic (Melbourne Theatre Company), Sunday In the Park with George (Victorian Opera), and Broken and the national tours of Spencer and A Prudent Man for Lab Kelpie. He has received four Green Room nominations across mainstage, independent and music theatre.

Screen appearances include The Very Excellent Mr Dundee, The Leftovers,and A Picnic at Hanging Rock. As an in-demand character voice over artist he has starred in international animations SheZow, Kuu-Kuu Harajuku, Flea-Bitten! and the Emmy-nominated Get Ace.

Brooks is an astonishingly versatile artist who seems able to do everything from Shakespeare  to Sondheim to cartoon voiceovers. He impresses in everything he does. – Stage Whispers

Lyall has directed The Queer Kingdom by Tom Ballard, Red Sky Morning by Tom Holloway, Refined by Katy Warner, Become The One by Adam Fawcet  and Alone Outside by Liz Newell. He has worked as assistant director on Aidan Fennessy’s The Heartbreak Choir under Peter Houghton for Melbourne Theatre Company, Patricia Cornelius’s Big Heart (as 2017 Theatre Works Associate Artist), Petra Kalive’s Oil Babies and Douglas Rintoul’s Elegy.

A teaching artist and creative consultant with Make A Scene since 2010, Lyall has contributed to Venice in Love, The Servant of Two Masters, Fooling in Love, and many school holiday programs. He has been a resident performing artist for the Victorian Creative Workers in Schools initiative, a teaching artist and youth creative leadership mentor in Portland, Victoria, and is currently Malthouse Theatre’s award-winning Education Coordinator.