In the past year, he has produced the acclaimed reimagining of Sunset Boulevard with Nicole Scherzinger, the winner of seven Olivier Awards, and Romeo and Juliet with Tom Holland and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers.
[14] He directed a Pinter double-bill in the West End - The Lover and The Collection - in 2008 before Michael Grandage appointed him as an associate director of the Donmar Warehouse.
[citation needed] Lloyd has worked frequently with McAvoy since 2009, a relationship that began with a production of Richard Greenberg's Three Days of Rain at the Apollo Theatre.
The following year he directed a new adaptation of The Maids by Jean Genet, starring Uzo Aduba, Zawe Ashton, and Laura Carmichael, both at Trafalgar Studios.
In the season, Lloyd directed: One for the Road; A New World Order; Mountain Language; the newly discovered The Pres and an Officer; The Lover; The Collection; Landscape; A Kind of Alaska; Monologue; Party Time; Celebration; The Dumb Waiter; and A Slight Ache, amongst many of Pinter's poems and speeches.
Lloyd directed a production of Evita in Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in 2019, which received two Olivier Award nominations, including one for Best Musical Revival.
[29] In 2012 Lloyd directed a critically acclaimed, 'turbo-charged'[30] production of She Stoops to Conquer at the National Theatre, and The Duchess of Malfi at The Old Vic starring Eve Best.
His production of Cyrano de Bergerac earned five Olivier Award nominations, including one for Best Director for Lloyd, Best Actor for McAvoy, and won Best Revival.
As part of the Playhouse Season, the Jamie Lloyd Company committed to a wide-ranging outreach programme, giving 15,000 tickets away for free to each production to first time theatre goers, and with a further 15,000 £15 seats to young and low-income audience members.
[43] Lloyd directed a Broadway revival of the Henrik Ibsen play A Doll's House starring Jessica Chastain and Arian Moayed at the Hudson Theatre in New York.
[44] That same year he directed a revival of the musical Sunset Boulevard starring Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond at the Savoy Theatre in the West End.
[47] In September 2024, his production of Sunset Boulevard transferred to the St. James Theatre on Broadway with Nicole Scherzinger reprising her role as Norma Desmond.