Nationality United States Role Theater Director Name Diane Paulus | Website www.dianepaulus.net Occupation Director Spouse Randy Weiner (m. 1995) | |
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Born 1966 (age 48–49) New York City, New York, United States Alma mater Harvard University
Columbia University Awards Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical Education Harvard University, Columbia University, Columbia University School of the Arts, Brearley School Similar People Randy Weiner, Patina Miller, Matthew James Thomas, Andrea Martin, Scott Pask | ||
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Diane Marie Paulus (born 1966 in New York City, USA) is an American director of theater and opera who became Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater (ART) at Harvard University in 2009. Paulus was nominated for the Best Director Tony Award for her revival of Hair, and won the award in 2013 for her revival of Pippin. She has received the 2009 Harvard College Women’s Leadership Award and the Columbia University IAL Diamond Award.
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- Amaluna by cirque du soleil director diane paulus la metteure en sc ne
- Diane paulus artistic director of the american repertory theater
- Education
- Career
- American Repertory Theater
- Personal
- Selected works directed
- References
Diane paulus artistic director of the american repertory theater
Education
Paulus attended the Brearley School, studied dance at New York City Ballet and trained in classical piano. In 1988, she graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University/Radcliffe College with a bachelor's degree in Social Studies and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She earned a master's degree from the Columbia University School of the Arts.
Career
Paulus and her husband, Randy Weiner, along with a few other theater school graduates established a small theater troupe in New York City called Project 400 Theatre Group. With Project 400, Paulus and Weiner specialized in creating avant-garde musical productions which married classic theater and modern music. Paulus' first production with the group was a rock version of The Tempest. Other productions included an R&B Phaedra and a hip-hop Lohengrin.
In collaboration with Weiner, Paulus co-created The Donkey Show, a disco adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream which ran off-Broadway from 1999 to 2005. Critics cited the production as an example of a trend in which edgy avant-garde theater had become fashionably mainstream.
American Repertory Theater
In May 2008, Paulus was named the artistic director of the American Repertory Theater (affiliated with Harvard University). The American Repertory Theater chose Paulus after a 16-month search to replace Robert Woodruff in an effort to revitalize the program. Paulus' first production was a revival of The Donkey Show. Paulus previously taught courses at Columbia University and Yale University.
Paulus was selected by the magazine American Theatre as one of the 25 theatre artists who were asked to share their vision of coming developments in the next 25 years in the theatre world. In her comments she talks about her goal to "revolutionize" the theatre experience by making it more interactive, letting the audience participate and making theatre content more "open source."
In 2010, Paulus directed Il mondo della luna (The World on the Moon), an opera by Joseph Haydn, in the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History. A Gotham Chamber Opera, in partnership with the Museum and in association with American Repertory Theater, Paulus' production fused live opera and stargazing using the 180-degree dome with projections courtesy of NASA.
Paulus was slated to direct Paul Simon's The Capeman at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park for the Public Theater in August 2010.
In 2011 she staged a production of the Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess at the American Repertory Theater, which moved to Broadway in 2012. The production was nominated for 10 awards in the 2012 Tony Awards, winning Best Revival of a Musical and Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for McDonald. The production ran through September 23, 2012. It played 322 performances, 17 more than the 1953 revival, making it the longest-running production of Porgy and Bess on Broadway.
In 2012, Paulus directed a production of Pippin for the American Repertory Theater. She cast a woman, Patina Miller, in the part of Leading Player, originated by Ben Vereen. The production opened on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway, on April 25, 2013. 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.
Personal
Paulus was born in New York City in 1966, the daughter of a New York television producer. On October 1, 1995, she married fellow Harvard graduate Randy Weiner. They have two daughters.