Phyllida Lloyd

Phyllida Lloyd, CBE (born 17 June 1957) is a British director, best known for her work in theatre and as the director of Mamma Mia! and The Iron Lady.

Life and career

Lloyd grew up in Bristol. After graduating from 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.

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. 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.

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Review: 'Mamma Mia' is exhuberant production that will make you want to dance

Post Crescent 19 Dec 2024
It feels necessary to give props to director Phyllida Lloyd and choreographer Anthony Van Laast, both of whom worked on the original stage show and both "Mamma Mia!" movies, as well as resident ...

Dear Orson Welles & Other Essays by Mark Cousins: A generous, playful and unpretentious collection

The Irish Times 14 Dec 2024
Dear Orson Welles and Other Essays. Author. 978-17393537-2-8. Publisher. €30 ... In a piece on memory he points us towards Agnès Varda’s La Pointe Courte, Chantal Akerman’s From the East and (why not?), “Phyllida Lloyd’s Mamma Mia!” ... READ MORE ... .

Woman of the Year 2024: Harriet Walter

Harpers Bazaar 25 Nov 2024
It’s always lovely when we discover that a Woman of the Year has a link to Bazaar – and so it proves when I speak to Dame Harriet Walter ... Most notable recently have been her central roles in Phyllida Lloyd’s terrific all-female Shakespeare plays ... .

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The Observer 15 Nov 2024
But she has broken away from the pop album format with some eye-catching projects such as her music for Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female 2016 production of The Tempest, and in 2022, her first classical composition, Symphony No 1 ... Share. Reuse this content. .

Harriet Walter accepts the Icon award from Brian Cox at Bazaar's Women of the Year

Harpers Bazaar 11 Nov 2024
"I knew instantly that this young woman was destined to have a career as an actor," he said, listing her range of work, including "a definitive Brutus in Phyllida Lloyd’s all-woman’s ...

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Rotten Tomatoes 07 Nov 2024
(Photo by DreamWorks / courtesy Everett Collection ... My Old Ass (Nov ... Sensitively directed by Phyllida Lloyd and brought to life by co-writer Clare Dunne's starring performance, Herself charts one woman's journey with empathy and grace ... Phyllida Lloyd ... D.

‘You get more confident as the parts run out’: Harriet Walter on her stage career, Succession and Shakespeare’s women

The Observer 27 Oct 2024
It has been simmering for years ...Jill Bennett’s Gertrude was squirming under Jonathan Pryce’s blast ... Not least in what has come to be referred to as the “all-female Shakespeares” directed by Phyllida Lloyd, first seen at the Donmar Warehouse in 2012 ... .

Kathleen Is Here review – cuckoo-in-the-nest drama-thriller has a properly nailbiting ending

The Observer 14 Oct 2024
The Guardian’s journalism is independent ... Learn more ... Then she is befriended by a kindly neighbour Dee (played by Clare Dunne, known for Phyllida Lloyd’s abuse drama Herself, in which she was co-writer and star) ... Share. Reuse this content. .

Star of BBC blockbuster Nightsleeper ALEXANDRA ROACH on how her career nearly hit the buffers

The Daily Mail 28 Sep 2024
Just before I’m due to meet Alexandra Roach I get a call from her publicist ... Her first big role was as a young Margaret Thatcher in Phyllida Lloyd’s 2011 biopic The Iron Lady ... As the young Margaret Thatcher with Harry Lloyd as Denis in The Iron Lady ... .

Jayna Elise, star of 'Tina' musical tour, to bring love of rock to life in Akron show

Akron Beacon Journal 20 Sep 2024
Tina Turner and Erwin Bach, executive producers; Katori Hall, Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins, Phyllida Lloyd, director; Anthony Van Laast, choreographer; Mark Thompson, set and costume designer; ...

Politically correct Shakespeare

British Theatre Guide 18 Sep 2024
Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female Shakespeare trilogy at the Donmar Warehouse and Greg Doran’s all-black Julius Caesar at the RSC challenged the marginalised status of women and ethnic minorities—and gave ...

Christine Baranski says 'Mamma Mia' producer is "planning" third installment, says "She gave me the narrative plotline"

Beijing News 15 Aug 2024
'Mamma Mia!' is a 2008 jukebox musical romance comedy film directed by Phyllida Lloyd and written by Catherine Johnson, based on her book for the 1999 musical of the same name.The film features an ...

Christine Baranski reveals Mamma Mia 3 is in the works:

The Daily Mail 14 Aug 2024
Phyllida Lloyd's 2008 big-screen adaptation of the 1999 jukebox musical Mamma Mia! amassed $694.6M at the global box office despite dismal reviews and the sequel (featuring Cher) earned $402.3M at the global box office with better reviews.

Why Didn't Meryl Streep Reprise Her Iconic Role Of Donna Sheridan In Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again? Find Out What Theories Claim

Pinkvilla 11 Aug 2024
By ... follow us. share ... While the fans loved watching Streep onscreen in the first part of the Phyllida Lloyd directorial, they were expecting the actress to reprise her character for the second part as well ... But immediately, there was just a struggle ... .

Review: ‘Tina’ a musical frenzy led by a powerhouse at Proctors

Times Union 31 Jul 2024
Despite the speed of director Phyllida Lloyd’s staging, Groover, Releford-Lee and Roz White as Zelma, Turner’s complicated mother, manage to mine as much depth as the thin – yet stuffed – script by ...

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