Phyllida Lloyd

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| name = Phyllida Lloyd

| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|commas=on|CBE}}

| image = Phyllida Lloyd.jpg

| caption =

| birthname = Phyllida Christian Lloyd{{cite news |title=Phyllida Lloyd: Prime mover |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/phyllida-lloyd-prime-mover-6283363.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/phyllida-lloyd-prime-mover-6283363.html |archive-date=26 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=14 January 2019 |work=The Independent |date=31 December 2011 |language=en}}

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1957|6|17}}

| birth_place = Nempnett Thrubwell,{{cite web |title=Phyllida Christian Lloyd {{!}} Graduation |url=https://www.bristol.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-degrees/hondeg06/lloyd.html |publisher=University of Bristol |access-date=14 January 2019 |date=14 July 2006}} Somerset, EnglandEngland & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007

| death_date =

| occupation = Film and theatre director

| yearsactive = 1997–present

| notable_works = Mamma Mia

| homepage =

}}

Phyllida Christian Lloyd, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|commas=on|CBE}} (born 17 June 1957) is an English film and theatre director and producer.{{Cite web |last=Mermelstein |first=David |date=2008-07-30 |title=Phyllida Lloyd |url=https://variety.com/2008/scene/markets-festivals/phyllida-lloyd-1117989807/ |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2016-11-25 |title=Phyllida Lloyd: a director who's determined to put women centre stage |url=http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/nov/25/phyllida-lloyd-director-all-female-shakespeare-trilogy-mama-mia-iron-lady |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Bunbury |first=Stephanie |date=2021-06-25 |title=From Meryl Streep to a homeless mum: Phyllida Lloyd builds a new order |url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/movies/from-meryl-streep-to-a-homeless-mum-phyllida-lloyd-builds-a-new-order-20210621-p582ux.html |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}

Her theatre work includes directing productions at the Royal Court Theatre and Royal National Theatre, and opera director for Opera North and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.{{Cite web |title=Phyllida Lloyd |url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/phyllida-lloyd/credits/3030308961/ |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=TVGuide.com |language=en}} Her adaptation of three Shakespeare plays (Julius Caesar, Henry IV and The Tempest) received acclaim from critics, with The Guardian calling it "one of the most important theatrical events of the past 20 years".{{Cite web |date=2016-11-27 |title=Shakespeare Trilogy review – Phyllida Lloyd’s searing triumph |url=http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/nov/27/shakespeare-trilogy-review-donmar-kings-cross-phyllida-lloyd-the-tempest-rsc-simon-russell-beale |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2016-05-17 |title=The All-Female Shakespeare Production Turning the Theater World Upside Down |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2016/05/taming-of-the-shrew-all-female-shakespeare-production |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2016-11-23 |title=Shakespeare Trilogy review – Donmar's phenomenal all-female triumph |url=http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/nov/23/shakespeare-trilogy-five-star-review-donmar-kings-cross-harriet-walter |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2012-12-05 |title=Julius Caesar – review |url=http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2012/dec/05/julius-caesar-review |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2014-10-11 |title=Henry IV review – Harriet Walter’s kingly power |url=http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/oct/12/henry-4-review-harriet-walter-kingly-power |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Brantley |first=Ben |date=2015-11-12 |title=Review: ‘Henry IV,’ Donmar Warehouse’s All-Female Version |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/theater/review-henry-iv-donmar-warehouses-all-female-version.html |access-date=2023-01-05 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news |last=Wolf |first=Matt |date=2012-12-11 |title='Julius Caesar' Flexes Its Female Muscle |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/arts/12iht-lon12.html |access-date=2023-01-05 |issn=0362-4331}}

She is best known for directing Mamma Mia! (2008) and The Iron Lady (2011). Films she has directed have won 2 Academy Awards,{{Cite web |title=Academy Awards Database Search {{!}} Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences |url=https://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/search/getresults?query=%7B%22FilmTitle%22:%22The%20Iron%20Lady%22,%22Sort%22:%222-Film%20Title-Alpha%22,%22AwardShowNumberFrom%22:0,%22AwardShowNumberTo%22:0,%22Search%22:30%7D |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=awardsdatabase.oscars.org}} and have won and been nominated for numerous other awards. She has been nominated for a BAFTA Award,{{Cite web |title=2009 Film Outstanding British Film {{!}} BAFTA Awards |url=https://awards.bafta.org/award/2009/film/outstanding-british-film |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=awards.bafta.org}} a European Film Award,{{Cite web |title=The Iron Lady |url=https://europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/film/https%3A%2F%2Feuropeanfilmawards.eu%2Fen_EN%2Ffilm%2Fthe-iron-lady.5743 |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=europeanfilmawards.eu |language=en}} 2 Tony Awards.

Life and career

Lloyd was born and raised in Nempnett Thrubwell, Somerset, south of Bristol.{{cite news|last1=Saner|first1=Emine|title=Phyllida Lloyd: a director who's determined to put women centre stage|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/nov/25/phyllida-lloyd-director-all-female-shakespeare-trilogy-mama-mia-iron-lady|access-date=27 November 2016|work=Guardian|date=25 November 2016}} She attended Lawnside School, which merged with Malvern St James in 1994.

After graduating from the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts at Birmingham University in 1979 (BA, English), she spent five years working in BBC Television Drama. In 1985 she was awarded an Arts Council of Great Britain bursary to be Trainee Director at the Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. The following year she was appointed Associate Director at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, then in 1989 Associate Director of the Bristol Old Vic, where her production of The Comedy of Errors was a success.David Benedict [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/arts-together-wherever-we-go-1269939.html "Arts: Together wherever we go"], The Independent, 29 April 2011

She moved on to the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester where she directed The Winter's Tale, The School for Scandal, Medea, and an acclaimed production of Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka.[http://www.royalexchange.co.uk/history/1990/DEATH%20AND%20THE%20KINGS%20HORSEMAN.htm "Death and the Kings Horseman"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030119152230/http://www.royalexchange.co.uk/history/1990/DEATH%20AND%20THE%20KINGS%20HORSEMAN.htm |date=19 January 2003 }}, Royal Exchange Theatre website In 1991 she made her debut at the Royal Shakespeare Company with a well-received production of a little-known play by Thomas Shadwell, The Virtuoso. Although she followed this in 1992 with a successful production of the rarely seen Artists and Admirers by Alexander Ostrovsky, she has, as of 2007, never returned to the RSC.

Also in 1992 came her first commercial success: her Royal Court Theatre production of John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation transferred to the West End. In 1994 she made her debut at Royal National Theatre with a production of Pericles which divided the critics.See Pericles at the Royal National Theatre by Melissa Gibson, in Pericles: Critical Essays (Shakespeare Criticism, Volume 23) There was general praise, however, for her productions of Hysteria by Terry Johnson at the Royal Court and Bertolt Brecht/Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera at the Donmar Warehouse.

By this time, Lloyd's work had come to the attention of Nicholas Payne, then running Opera North. For her debut as an opera director he steered her to what was, at least in the UK, an obscurity – L'Etoile by Chabrier. The production was a great success, setting Lloyd on a significant and award-winning career as an opera director. Productions since then include La Boheme, Gloriana, Cherubini's Medea, Albert Herring and Peter Grimes for Opera North; Dialogues of the Carmelites for English National Opera/Welsh National Opera; Verdi's Macbeth (for the Bastille Opera and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden); the premiere of Poul Ruders' opera The Handmaid's Tale (from the novel by Margaret Atwood); and a controversial Ring cycle for ENO. For Gloriana A Film She received an International Emmy and a FIPA d'Or . Her productions have won the Royal Philharmonic Society Award in 1991 (Gloriana) 2000 (The Carmelites) and 2007 (Peter Grimes).

In spite of the mixed reception accorded to her first production at the National Theatre, Lloyd nonetheless returned to direct productions of The Way of the World, Pericles, What the Butler Saw, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Duchess of Malfi, which were well received. She directed an award-winning production of Boston Marriage at London's Donmar Warehouse in 2001. Other recent work includes Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart newly adapted by poet Peter Oswald, which ran at the Donmar Warehouse, London, and was transferred to the Apollo Theatre, London, and then to the Broadway in spring 2009.

In 1999, Lloyd was offered the chance to direct the ABBA musical Mamma Mia!, which became a hit, not only in the West End and on Broadway, but worldwide. She directed the 2008 cinematic adaptation, which marked her feature debut. By the end of 2008, the film had been certified as the biggest grossing film at the UK box office ever.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3283481/Mamma-Mia-becomes-highest-grossing-British-film.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081103035301/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3283481/Mamma-Mia-becomes-highest-grossing-British-film.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 November 2008| title=Mamma Mia becomes highest grossing British film| author = Irvine, Chris| date = 30 October 2008| access-date = 1 January 2009| publisher=The Telegraph}} It was also certified as the UK's biggest-selling DVD.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7805847.stm|title=Mamma Mia! tops all-time DVD list|date=1 January 2009|access-date=1 January 2009|publisher=BBC News}} She was nominated as Best Director of a Play in the 2009 Tony Awards for her production of Mary Stuart. In 2013 Lloyd directed Cush Jumbo in a one-woman show about Josephine Baker at the Bush Theatre and subsequently at Joe's Pub in New York. Between 2012 and 2017 she directed the Donmar Warehouse Trilogy in London and New York. Harriet Walter played Brutus in Julius Caesar, the title role in Henry IV and Prospero in The Tempest in a single day. Susannah Clapp in The Guardian described the Trilogy as "one of the most important theatrical events of the last twenty years".

Lloyd directed The Iron Lady, a biopic of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, with Meryl Streep as Thatcher. The film entered production in January 2011 and was released in December of that year. Meryl Streep won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Thatcher.Catherine Shoard [https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/feb/08/meryl-streep-margaret-thatcher-iron-lady "Meryl Streep's Margaret Thatcher revealed in first still from The Iron Lady"], The Guardian, 8 February 2011 Lloyd's film Herself written by Clare Dunne and Malcolm Campbell and starring Clare Dunne premiered at The 2020 Sundance Film Festival.

Filmography

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Year ! Title ! Notes ! Ref.
2000 \| Gloriana \| TV movie \|
2008 \| Mamma Mia! \| \|{{Cite news \|last=Gold \|first=Sylviane \|date=2008-07-06 \|title=The ‘Mamma Mia!’ Factor, Times Three \|language=en-US \|work=The New York Times \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/movies/06gold.html \|access-date=2023-01-05 \|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web \|last=Mintzer \|first=Jordan \|date=2008-07-05 \|title=Mamma Mia! \|url=https://variety.com/2008/film/awards/mamma-mia-4-1200508599/ \|access-date=2023-01-05 \|website=Variety \|language=en-US}}
2011 \| The Iron Lady \| \|{{Cite web \|last=Young \|first=Susan \|date=2011-12-05 \|title=Streep a good Brit fit in ‘Iron Lady’ \|url=https://variety.com/2011/film/news/streep-a-good-brit-fit-in-iron-lady-1118046946/ \|access-date=2023-01-05 \|website=Variety \|language=en-US}}
2020 \| Herself \| Also executive producer \| {{cite magazine\|last1=Clarke\|first1=Stewart\|title=Phyllida Lloyd's 'Herself' Adds Cast, Cornerstone Boards Sales (EXCLUSIVE)\|url=https://variety.com/2019/film/news/phyllida-lloyd-herself-clare-dunne-element-pictures-cornerstone-films-merman-sharon-horgan-1203197728/\|magazine=Variety\|date=April 25, 2019}}{{Cite web \|last=Zemler \|first=Emily \|date=2021-01-26 \|title=Phyllida Lloyd and writer-actress Clare Dunne join on the uplifting drama 'Herself' \|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2021-01-26/herself-phyllida-lloyd-clare-dunne \|access-date=2023-01-05 \|website=Los Angeles Times \|language=en-US}}

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Year

! Title

! Notes

! Ref.

2000

| Gloriana

| TV movie

2008

| Mamma Mia!

|{{Cite news |last=Gold |first=Sylviane |date=2008-07-06 |title=The ‘Mamma Mia!’ Factor, Times Three |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/movies/06gold.html |access-date=2023-01-05 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |last=Mintzer |first=Jordan |date=2008-07-05 |title=Mamma Mia! |url=https://variety.com/2008/film/awards/mamma-mia-4-1200508599/ |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}

2011

| The Iron Lady

|{{Cite web |last=Young |first=Susan |date=2011-12-05 |title=Streep a good Brit fit in ‘Iron Lady’ |url=https://variety.com/2011/film/news/streep-a-good-brit-fit-in-iron-lady-1118046946/ |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}

2020

| Herself

| Also executive producer

| {{cite magazine|last1=Clarke|first1=Stewart|title=Phyllida Lloyd's 'Herself' Adds Cast, Cornerstone Boards Sales (EXCLUSIVE)|url=https://variety.com/2019/film/news/phyllida-lloyd-herself-clare-dunne-element-pictures-cornerstone-films-merman-sharon-horgan-1203197728/|magazine=Variety|date=April 25, 2019}}{{Cite web |last=Zemler |first=Emily |date=2021-01-26 |title=Phyllida Lloyd and writer-actress Clare Dunne join on the uplifting drama 'Herself' |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2021-01-26/herself-phyllida-lloyd-clare-dunne |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}

Honours

Oxford University named Phyllida Lloyd the Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre in 2006,{{cite web|url=http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/po/060119cama.shtml|title=Phyllida Lloyd named Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor|access-date=20 April 2008|date= 19 January 2006|publisher= University of Oxford}}{{Cite web |title=Emeritus Fellows Archives |url=https://www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/people/emeritus-fellows/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230105151936/https://www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/people/emeritus-fellows/ |archive-date=5 January 2023 |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=St Catherine's College |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Deborah Warner named as Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre {{!}} University of Oxford |url=https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-11-21-deborah-warner-named-visiting-professor-contemporary-theatre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220927002935/https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-11-21-deborah-warner-named-visiting-professor-contemporary-theatre |archive-date=27 September 2022 |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=www.ox.ac.uk |language=en}} the same year she was awarded an honorary degree by Bristol University.{{cite web|url=http://www.bris.ac.uk/cms/go/statutes/records/hongrads.html|title=Honorary Graduates|access-date=20 April 2008|date= 31 July 2006|publisher=University of Bristol}} She was named one of the 101 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britain by The Independent newspaper in 2008;{{cite news|first=Andrew |last=Tuck |title=Gay Power: The pink list |url=http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1153578.ece |work=The Independent |publisher=Independent News & Media |location=London |date=2 July 2006 |access-date=20 April 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080107115957/http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1153578.ece |archive-date=7 January 2008 }} and in 2010 was ranked 22nd (dropping from 7th the previous year) in the same list.{{cite news |title=The IoS Pink List 2010 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-iiosi-pink-list-2010-2040472.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-iiosi-pink-list-2010-2040472.html |archive-date=26 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |newspaper=The Independent on Sunday |publisher=Independent Print Limited |location=London |date=1 August 2010 |access-date=11 September 2011 }} Lloyd was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours.{{London Gazette|issue=59282|date=31 December 2009|page=7 |supp=y}} DLitt, Honorary Degree, 2009 Birmingham University.{{cite web|url=http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/birmingham|title=University of Birmingham|work=thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk}}

Awards and nominations

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!Year

!Award

!Category

!Work

!Result

!Notes

2021

|Tony Award

|Best Direction of a Musical

|Tina - The Tina Turner Musical

|{{nom}}

|{{Cite web |last=September 26 |first=Jessica Derschowitz Updated |last2=EDT |first2=2021 at 11:14 PM |title=Tony Awards 2021: See the full list of winners |url=https://ew.com/awards/tony-awards/tony-awards-2021-winners-list/ |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=EW.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Woerner |first=Meredith |date=2021-09-26 |title=Tony Awards: The Full List Of Winners |url=https://variety.com/2021/theater/news/tony-awards-winners-list-2021-1235073433/ |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}

2012

|European Film Awards

|Audience Award

|The Iron Lady

|{{nom}}

2009

|British Academy Film Awards

|Outstanding British Film

|Mamma Mia!

|{{nom}}

2009

|Tony Award

|Best Direction of a Play

|Mary Stuart

|{{nom}}

|{{Cite web |last=agencies |first=Staff and |date=2009-05-05 |title=Billy Elliot musical dominates Broadway's Tony award shortlist |url=http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2009/may/05/billy-elliot-tony-awards-broadway |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Stage,AP |first=Andrew Salomon Back |last2=Stage |first2=Andrew Salomon Back |last3=AP |date=2009-05-05 |title=‘Billy Elliot’ scores 15 Tony noms |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/billy-elliot-scores-15-tony-83402/ |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}

Actions

On 16 August 2018, Lloyd condemned the destruction of the Said al-Mishal Cultural Centre in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza five days earlier.{{cite web |title=We condemn the destruction of Gaza cultural centre in Israeli airstrike {{!}} Letter |date=2018-08-16 |website=The Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230728143320/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/16/we-condemn-the-destruction-of-gaza-cultural-centre-in-israeli-airstrike |archive-date=2023-07-28 |url-status=live |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/16/we-condemn-the-destruction-of-gaza-cultural-centre-in-israeli-airstrike}}{{cite web |title=British Film and Theater Figures Condemn Israeli Bombing of Major Gaza Cultural Center |date=21 August 2018 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213213157/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/british-film-theater-figures-condemn-israeli-bombing-major-gaza-cultural-center-1136297 |archive-date=13 February 2021 |url-status=live |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/british-film-theater-figures-condemn-israeli-bombing-major-gaza-cultural-center-1136297}}

References

External links

{{IMDb name|1630273}}
[http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/classics/story/0,6000,1600872,00.html Interview with Lloyd and Margaret Atwood in The Guardian]
[http://www.playbill.com/celebritybuzz/whoswho/biography/11087.html Playbill biography]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20091007012236/http://britishfilmmagazine.com/articles/mamma-mia-sunny-song-and-dance.html British Film Magazine – Song and Dance : Lloyd Directs Mamma Film]

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