DIANE PAULUS Director of Theater and Opera

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DIANE PAULUS — Director

A.R.T.: Best of Both Worlds, The Donkey Show. Ms. Paulus is the Artistic Director of the A.R.T. Recent theater work includes the Tony Award-winning revival of HAIR on Broadway and London; Kiss Me Kate at Glimmerglass Opera; Lost Highway, based on the David Lynch film, an ENO co-production with the Young Vic in London; Another Country by James Baldwin at Riverside Church; Turandot: Rumble for the Ring at the Bay Street Theatre; The Golden Mickey’s 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 Coming, featuring the music and lyrics of Laura Nyro. She is the creator and director of The Donkey Show, which ran for six years Off-Broadway, toured internationally to London, Edinburgh, Madrid, and Evian, France, and is currently at the A.R.T. Opera credits include Il mondo della luna at the Hayden Planetarium in New York; Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, Turn Of The Screw, Cosi fan tutte, and the Monteverdi trilogy Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, L’incoronazione di Poppea, and Orfeo at the 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 works include the A.R.T.’s American premiere production of Death and The Powers, a new opera by Tod Machover in collaboration with MIT Media Lab and Opera Boston, and Johnny Baseball, a new musical about the Red Sox with music by Robert Reale, lyrics by Willie Reale, book by Richard Dresser and story by Richard Dresser and Willie Reale.

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