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
art want bubbles
I don't want to be in an art bubble.
creativity form
Creativity is a form of knowledge.
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.
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.
art drama singing
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.
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.
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.
innovation musical theater
The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.
people levels epiphany
I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.
children creativity play
Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child - can be a way for us to survive tough times.
way theater our-lives
Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.