Diane Paulus

Tony Award-winning Director

Diane Paulus is the Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University. She was also selected for the 2014 TIME 100 (TIME magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world).

Paulus is the 2013 recipient of the Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical (Pippin). Her other recent work includes Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna, currently on tour in Europe, Invisible Thread at Second Stage, and The Public Theater’s Tony Award-winning revival of HAIR on Broadway and in London’s West End.

As an opera director, her credits include The Magic Flute, the complete Monteverdi cycle, and the trio of Mozart-Da Ponte operas, among others. Diane is a professor of the practice of theater in Harvard University’s English department. She was selected as one of Variety’s Trailblazing Women in Entertainment for 2014 and Boston Magazine’s 50 Thought Leaders of 2014.

Leadership

Smells Like Team Spirit: Master the Art of Collaboration

Director Diane Paulus delivers a crash course in team dynamics, how to nurture creativity, and the importance of obsession in a good leader.

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Neuropsych

Our lives are ruled by ego – but playing is the antidote

The happiest moments of our lives are when we lose ourselves – in art, in exercise, in love. According to Harvard’s Diane Paulus, being able to ‘play’ and engage in something outside of ourselves is a valuable respite from our egos.

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4 min

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High Culture

Theater Directors Should Think More Like Good Lovers: The Audience Comes First

Theaters today seem like hallowed ground, says Harvard’s Diane Paulus, but that’s not their natural state. Once, they had the same atmosphere as sport: visceral, alive, and indebted to its audience. How can we get back there?

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10 min

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Diane Paulus