Diane Marie Paulus was born on 1966 and is an American theater and opera director who is currently the Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University.
24 Facts About Diane Paulus
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Diane Paulus received the 2009 Harvard College Women's Leadership Award and the Columbia University IAL Diamond Award.
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Diane Paulus was born in New York City in 1966, the daughter of a Japanese mother and an American father.
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Diane Paulus's parents met while her father, a New York television producer, was stationed in Japan after World War II.
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Diane Paulus attended the Brearley School, studied dance at New York City Ballet, and trained in classical piano.
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Diane Paulus then earned a master's degree from the Columbia University School of the Arts.
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Diane Paulus's first production with the group was a rock version of The Tempest.
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In collaboration with Weiner, Diane Paulus co-created The Donkey Show, a disco adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream which ran off-Broadway from 1999 to 2005.
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In May 2008, Diane Paulus was named the artistic director of the American Repertory Theater.
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Diane Paulus's first production was a revival of The Donkey Show, written by Diane Paulus and her husband Randy Weiner.
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Diane Paulus previously taught courses at Columbia University and Yale University.
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In 2010, Diane Paulus was selected by the magazine American Theatre as one of the 25 theater artists who were asked to share their vision of coming developments in the next 25 years in the theater world.
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Diane Paulus has argued that theater has the power to make people more compassionate and cooperative citizens.
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Also in 2010, Diane Paulus directed Il mondo della luna, an opera by Joseph Haydn, in the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History.
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Diane Paulus directed a concert production of Paul Simon's The Capeman at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park for the Public Theater in August 2010.
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In 2012, Diane Paulus directed a production of Pippin for the American Repertory Theater.
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Diane Paulus cast a woman, Patina Miller, in the part of Leading Player, originated by Ben Vereen.
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Diane Paulus won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical, becoming the third woman to win the award after Julie Taymor in 1998 and Susan Stroman in 2001.
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In 2014, at the American Repertory Theater Diane Paulus directed the American premier of the musical Finding Neverland, based on the film of the same name.
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In 2015, Diane Paulus directed the new musical Waitress, based on the 2007 film of the same name, written by Adrienne Shelly.
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In 2018, Diane Paulus directed the new musical Jagged Little Pill, based on the Grammy Award-winning 1995 album by Alanis Morissette.
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Diane Paulus responded with a statement published in The Boston Globe.
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On November 19,2021, Paulus was hired by Spire Animation Studios to make her featue directorial debut Century Goddess from a screenplay by Bisha K Ali and Starrah writing original songs.
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The ART'S diverse production of "1776", which Diane Paulus co-directed, was the subject of criticism by cast member Sarah Porkalob after it moved to Broadway in 2022.