Benjamin Lloyd

Benjamin Lloyd is a Philadelphia-based theatre artist. He teaches acting at Temple University and Penn State, and has taught acting at Princeton, Arcadia and Villanova Univerisites. In addition to performing at every major theatre in Philadelphia, Ben has acted and directed in New York; Edinburgh, Scotland; and Prague, the Czech Republic.

His second novel, The Deception of Surfaces, was published in July 2011. It is a follow up to his first book The Actor's Way: A Journey of Self-Discovery in Letters, published by Allworth Press in May 2006. He is also the author of various articles and pamphlets on theatre and Quakerism.

He has a B.A. in Theater Studies from Yale College and an M.F.A. in Acting from the Yale School of Drama and he lives in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two children.

Read Ben's blog Showman/Shaman