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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.〔David Benedict ("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.〔("Death and the Kings Horseman" ), 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 Paine, 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. She received an International Emmy, a FIPA d'Or and the Royal Philharmonic Society Award. 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. It was also certified as the UK's biggest-selling DVD. She was nominated as Best Director of a Play in the 2009 (Tony Awards ) for her production of ''Mary Stuart''. 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.〔Catherine Shoard ("Meryl Streep's Margaret Thatcher revealed in first still from The Iron Lady" ), ''The Guardian'', 8 February 2011〕 In 2014 she directed Henry IV in the West end. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Phyllida Lloyd」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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