DIANE PAULUS
Director
Diane is the Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University. Broadway: A.R.T.’s productions of Pippin (Tony Award Best Direction, Best Revival), Finding Neverland, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Tony Award Best Revival); The Public Theater’s Hair (Tony Award Best Revival). Also at A.R.T.: Waitress (music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles), Crossing (a new opera by Matt Aucoin), Prometheus Bound (music by Serj Tankian, book and lyrics by Steven Sater), Tod Machover’s Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera, The Donkey Show, Best of Both Worlds, Johnny Baseball. Other: Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna currently on tour in Paris; The Magic Flute (Canadian Opera Company); Don Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte, Marriage of Figaro, Turn of the Screw, and the Monteverdi trilogy (Chicago Opera Theater and BAM). Diane is a Professor of the Practice in Theater in Harvard University’s English Department and was selected as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2014.