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Diane Paulus |
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DIANE PAULUS is a director of opera and theater. She is the creator and director of The Donkey Show, a disco adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream which ran for six years Off-Broadway, and toured internationally to London, Edinburgh, Madrid, and Evian, France. Recent theater work includes the 40th Anniversary Concert Production of Hair at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park for the Public Theater; Another Country by James Baldwin at Riverside Church; Turandot: Rumble For The Ring at the Bay Street Theatre; The Golden Mickeys for Disney Creative Entertainment; Best Of Both Worlds, a gospel/R&B adaptation of A Winter's Tale produced by Music-Theatre Group and The Women's Project; and The Karaoke Show, an adaptation of Comedy of Errors set in a karaoke bar, produced by Jordan Roth Productions. Also for Music-Theatre Group, she directed the Obie award-winning and Pulitzer Prize finalist Running Man by jazz composer Diedre Murray and poet Cornelius Eady; and Swimming With Watermelons, created in association with Project 400, the theater company she co-founded with her husband Randy Weiner. Other work Off-Broadway: Brutal Imagination, and the Obie-award winning Eli's Comin, featuring the music and lyrics of Laura Nyro. As an opera director, her productions include Le Nozze Di Figaro, Turn Of The Screw, Cosi Fan Tutte, and all three Monteverdi operas, Il Ritorno D'ulisse In Patria, L'Incoronazione Di Poppea, and Orfeo at Chicago Opera Theater. She is a frequent collaborator with British conductor Jane Glover. In 2002, their critically acclaimed production of Orfeo was presented as part of The Monteverdi Cycle at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City. Upcoming projects in 2008: Lost Highway, based on the David Lynch film, an ENO co-production with the Young Vic; Don Giovanni at Chicago Opera Theater; Kiss Me Kate at Glimmerglass Opera; and the revival of Hair for the Public Theater at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. In 2009: the premiere of Death And The Powers, a new opera by composer Tod Machover, librettist Robert Pinsky, with story by Randy Weiner, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monte Carlo. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University with a B.A. in Social Studies, and has a M.F.A. in Directing from Columbia University's School of the Arts. She is the recipient of the Peters Ivers Visiting Artist Fellowship at Harvard University, and a Directing Fellowship from The Drama League. She currently teaches at Barnard College/Columbia University, and the Yale School of Drama. Diane Paulus was recently appointed the Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The first ART season under her direction will be 2009-2010.
Bio as of August, 2008.
Working in the Theatre (video)
Arias to Showstoppers: The Worlds of Opera and Theatre - November, 2008
Downstage Center (audio)
Diane Paulus - September, 2008
Website:
www.dianepaulus.net
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