Category: Staff

To get psyched for next month’s Season Launch Party hosted by People Get Ready‘s Steven Reker we are making their single “Physiques” into the PS122 hold music. So give us a ring at 212-477-5829 to hear the track or check out the video below:

PS122’s late great Director of Production Derek Lloyd loved the upstairs theater at PS122 so much that he created a virtual 3D version of it manually in the 90’s shooter game Wolfenstein 3D. Derek created this back in 2004, well before consumer 3D software like Google Sketchup, but you can see his excitement for the space in the number of angles he chose and the music he added.

This week we are continuing to mourn the passing of our Director of Production Derek Lloyd. He would have loved Sunday night’s pub crawl – we saw faces from many years of Derek’s life and lots of toasts to a man who brought warmth into our lives and helped countless artists realize their visions.

On Sunday, May 4th from 4 – 6pm, join friends, family and co-workers for a memorial service at Abrons Art Center, 466 Grand Street in Manhattan.

Information and photos will continue to be posted on our new memorial page for Derek: ps122.org/derek

The staff and board, and all at Performance Space 122 are devastated by the news that Derek Lloyd, our long time Director of Production, unexpectedly but peacefully passed away yesterday.

There are those in theater who are content to make things possible. Derek made them better.

Thousands of artists, and tens of thousands of audience – whether they knew it or not – benefited from the passion, love and care with which he approached getting live performance on stage. This was matched only by the passion for his wife, Mary Rose-Lloyd, his family, his cats, his cooking and the Mets.

He was a mentor and teacher to hundreds of young technicians and artists, a designer, a sparkie wrench head techie of the highest order. Derek raised the bar of what PS122 could do for its artists, and enabled them to create stronger, better work. He pushed us all to be better and to do better. With little equipment and very modest infrastructure he made PS122 somewhere people wanted to work, wanted to create. He said yes to impossible dreams.

Performance Space 122’s current transformative renovation would quite simply not be happening without him. Derek spent the last seven years dreaming of what could be in these new spaces, and was a passionate advocate for the possibilities they offered.

Derek was a true, loyal friend to many. A big, gruff hugger who unashamedly teared up when he saw injustice. Not all will understand this but as we say – he had a heart as big as Phar Lap’s.

We will miss him, and are poorer for his loss.

Memorial services are to be determined and we’ll keep you updated via our blog and social media, however please join us for an informal gathering of friends and colleagues this Sunday evening, April 27 from 7:30pm on. We will meet at Dixon Place for the announcement of the Tom Murrin Performance Award (a dear friend and colleague to Derek) and proceed from there up First Avenue in the East Village. Please follow Little PS’er Nyc on facebook or @PS122 on twitter to meet us en route.

Thank you to all who have shared your kind words, memories, funny stories and condolences,

Vallejo, Winnie, Chris, Lori, Alex, Bevin, Jess, Jeso, Lauren, Sean, Mike and Gavin

PS122 Board – Ivan, Chet, Jason, Howard, Vivian, David, Enrico, Anne, Ain, Gavin, Lionel, David, Adam, Michael, Eli, Kambiz, Frank and Carmelita