Landing the Role of a Lifetime: CFA Alum Sydney Lemmon Is Making Her Way as an Actor
Alum Sydney Lemmon, granddaughter of the late Hollywood icon Jack Lemmon, is making her own way as an actor
Sydney Lemmon (CFA’12) says she felt a strong connection to the role of Jane in the stage production of Job. Audiences loved the play, which was a New York Times critic’s pick in 2024. Photo by Chris Sorensen
Landing the Role of a Lifetime
Alum Sydney Lemmon, granddaughter of the late Hollywood icon Jack Lemmon, is making her own way as an actor
There are moments when New York City shrinks from a metropolis of eight million humans to “a tiny little town,” Sydney Lemmon says. The actor experienced one such moment in the city she calls home in the summer of 2024. She’d recently learned that the play she was starring in off-Broadway, Job, was moving from the 200-seat Connelly Theater to the 600-seat Hayes Theater on 44th Street for its Broadway debut. The role would be the biggest yet for Lemmon (CFA’12), who says she was in the middle of an acting dry spell when she read for the part of Jane, a woman seeing a therapist for a mental health crisis after losing her job as an online content moderator. Before rehearsals began for the Broadway show, which premiered in July 2024, Lemmon took a walk to the Hayes.