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Prof. Lloyd, Head of Performance Studies, is an award-winning Director, Fight Director, Actor and Vocalist who specializes in Stage Combat, Acting, and Musical Theater Performance & Directing with over 125 production credits to his name. He received the MFA in Acting from Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL; the BA in Communications/Theater from North Central College, Naperville, IL; and is a Certified Teacher of Stage Combat with the Society of American Fight Directors, with black belts in Hapkido, TangSooDo and KaBuTo. In addition to being an educator and director for CNU, where he received the Kennedy Center-American College Theater Festival’s Meritorious Achievement Award for Excellence in Directing for Brighton Beach Memoirs and When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder, he is the Resident Fight Director for the Virginia Stage Company and the Virginia Opera. He has also begun serving as a Visiting Evaluator for the National Association of Schools of Theaters.

Recent professional acting credits include King Arthur in Spamalot, Mark Rothko in Red, McKean in 1776, Mushnik in Little Shop of Horrors, the Governor in Man of La Mancha, Owen in The Foreigner, and Capulet in Romeo and Juliet. Recent Fight Direction credits include The Hobbit, The Valkyrie, Pagliacci, The Great Gatsby, Romeo and Juliet, Fences, I Hate Hamlet, Lucia de Lammermoor, Il Trovatore, and Don Giovani. For Theater CNU, Gregg has directed Pippin, Spitfire Grill, Noises Off, Once Upon a Mattress, When You Comin’ Back Red Ryder, Brighton Beach Memoirs, I Hate Hamlet, HMS Pinafore, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Adding Machine, and Be Aggressive. Originally from Chicago, Prof. Lloyd lives in Newport News with his wonderful wife and two fantastic children.