Sydney Lemmon Continues Broadway Run in Hit Play Job

When producer-dramaturg Hannah Getts called Sydney Lemmon early on a Monday morning, the actor was awoken from a four-and-half-hour slumber. She had just wrapped an indie film the night before, and the shoot ran until 4 o’clock in the morning. But the good news couldn’t wait. Following two extended sold-out engagements, Max Wolf Friedlich’s psychological thriller Job, in which Lemmon stars, got a much-deserved promotion. It was moving to Broadway. “When she told me the news, it blew my mind,” Lemmon tells me from her New York apartment. The actor was going back to where her career began.

Sydney Lemmon sits on rug wearing a strapless floral dress with contrasting-print leggings.

(Image credit: Richie Ramirez Jr.; Styling: Loewe dress; Isabel Marant belt; PriscaVera pants; Hermès ring; Maryam Nassir Zadeh shoes)

Job is a tense two-hander about an overworked and overstimulated young woman named Jane (Lemmon) who is forced to take a leave of absence from her big Bay Area tech job following a very public meltdown at work. In order to return, she must get the approval of her middle-aged therapist Loyd (Peter Friedman), who suspects her job as an online content moderator, where she navigates the dark web, may be causing more harm than good. Over an intense session together, the two explore ideas around family, conflict, social justice, and trauma in a cyber age.