![]() ![]() It was only after doing a series on Pinter (Lloyd’s first professional production was The Caretaker, and a goal of his is to direct all of the playwright’s work) that culminated in an astounding production of Betrayal starring Tom Hiddleston (which earned Lloyd his first Tony nomination) that he truly found his groove. Lloyd has been directing steadily ever since the Guardian praised his Edinburgh Festival student production of Falsettoland in 2001. "I didn’t know if I wanted to do any old Cyrano," says James McAvoy, "but I did want to do whatever Jamie did with Cyrano." Kat D. “You have no idea what it’s going to be, but that’s the most fulfilling and dynamic bit.” ![]() “If you get the right people, something’s going to happen in that room,” he says. “All I could hear was loud booing.”īesides inspiring him to work behind the scenes, the experience helped Lloyd, now 41, understand a fundamental lesson about live theater: that part of making a great production is getting intrepid creatives together to collaborate. “I remember waiting in the wings to a packed house, and they announced the understudy to Freddie Prinze Jr. Jamie Lloyd may be best known for directing works by the likes of Harold Pinter, Jean Genet, and William Shakespeare, but he credits at least some of his status as a British theatrical wunderkind to a more unexpected collaborator: ’90s matinee idol Freddie Prinze Jr.įor his first job out of drama school, where he studied acting, Lloyd served as the understudy to Prinze in a West End production of Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth. ![]()
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