Diane Paulus
Diane Paulus
Diane Marie Paulusis an American director of theater and opera who became Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theaterat 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
CountryUnited States of America
believe thinking ideas
The idea of making audiences feel like they matter, that the theatre matters, and that they're a partner in the event—that's what fuels me as a director . . . I believe it's actually radical to think about the audience.
art believe roots
Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.
creativity form
Creativity is a form of knowledge.
directors answers feels
As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.
beautiful gold sitting
I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.
teaching class towns
I've gotten to the point that I don't even know what tomorrow brings. When I'm teaching, obviously I'm in town for the class every week.
america directors generations
My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.
art drama singing
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.
art directors kind
When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.
mean voice giving
At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater.
fall cutting people
I had to drop a boulder to wake people up about the A.R.T. We've done that, and now we have audiences again who want cutting-edge work, who want to be challenged, but who also won't be falling asleep at the theater.
ocean people feelings
For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle.
team player dedication
Im always interested in working with people who are good team players - that are selfless that way in their interests and dedication to the project.
art want bubbles
I don't want to be in an art bubble.