Lewis Lehmann Lloyd

Lewis Lehmann Lloyd died of natural causes on June 8, 2026, at the Miriam Boyd Parlin Hospice Residence, in Wayland, MA. He was 87.

Born in November 1938, to John and Lillian Lloyd, Lew grew up in and around Atlantic City, New Jersey, with his brother, John, and two sisters, Joan and Nancy. As a teenager, Lew worked for the Appalachian Mountain Club, sparking a love of the White Mountains and the AMC. After a summer working at Pinkham Notch in 1954, he returned as a hutman at Lakes of the Clouds hut in 1955. Lew followed his brother John to The Lawrenceville School before matriculating at Yale University in the fall of 1956. He found his community in the theater at Yale, and became president of the Yale Dramatic Association (the undergraduate theater organization), kindling a life-long passion for theater and the arts.

He moved to New York after graduating, and while working at CBS in live television production, purchased The Pocket Theater, an Off-Broadway venue on 13th Street and Third Avenue. He produced and managed shows, including the first documented marathon performance of Erik Satie's Vexations, which ran for over 18 consecutive hours on September 9 and 10, 1963. Among the relay team of pianists were John Cage, David Tudor, Christian Wolff, John Cale, and David Del Tredici. This relationship with Cage grew to include a role for Lew as the manager of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. He coordinated and tour managed the Cunningham Company's first world tour in 1964, and was a founder, with Jasper Johns and others, of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 1963.

Following a period as the manager of the Brooklyn Academy of Music during its renaissance in the late 1960s and time at the New York State Council on the Arts, he moved with his family to Boston in 1974 to pursue a master's degree in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Lew then took a position as the chief financial officer of the WGBH educational foundation and went on to work for various radio and television interests through the rest of his career before retiring in 1994 to attend to his wife, Linda Coyne Fosburg, as she battled terminal lung cancer.

Throughout his career he continued to serve the dance organizations he loved: in the 1970s and 80s, he was on the board of directors of the Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation; for thirteen years he was on the board of trustees of Boston Ballet; and in 1998, he joined the board of the Cunningham Dance Foundation, becoming co-chair in 2004.

He remarried in 1999 to Rosemary Suozzi Lloyd and lived out his last 18 years in Lincoln, MA, happily spending time with his grandchildren (who called him LewLew), doting on his loving dog Eddie, and sampling ice cream and pastries.

In addition to Rosemary, he is survived by his children Ben Lloyd, Amy McCarthy, Nick Lloyd, and Julia Johannsen; step-children Maurya Datka, Chris Mancini, and Annie Buckmaster; fourteen grandchildren; his first wife Barbara Dilley; his second wife Theresa Dickinson; and his sister Nancy Lloyd.

A service will be held in his honor at 3 pm on Tuesday, June 30 at First Parish, 4 Bedford Road, Lincoln, MA 01773.

In lieu of flowers, gifts in his honor can be made to the Appalachian Mountain Club and First Parish Church in Lincoln.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Dee Funeral Home & Cremation Service of Concord.