Diane Paulus

Artistic Director, American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.); Director, Jagged Little Pill

Diane Paulus is the Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University. Her Broadway credits include Jagged Little Pill (15 Tony Award nominations); Waitress (Broadway and U.S. national tour); Pippin (Tony Awards for Best Revival and Best Director); Finding Neverland; The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Tony Award for Best Revival, NAACP Award for Best Direction); and HAIR (Tony Award for Best Revival). Her West End credits include Waitress and HAIR. Her off-Broadway credits include Gloria: A Life at the Daryl Roth Theatre; In the Body of the World (Drama League nomination) at Manhattan Theatre Club; and Invisible Thread at Second Stage. Upcoming shows include 1776 at A.R.T. and Roundabout Theatre Company. At A.R.T.: Gloria: A Life, ExtraOrdinary, The White Card by Claudia Rankine, Crossing, Witness Uganda, Prometheus Bound, Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera, Best of Both Worlds, and The Donkey Show. Her other recent work includes Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna. Paulus is a professor of the practice in Harvard University’s English Department and Department of Theater, Dance, and Media. She was selected for the 2014 Time 100, Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and as one of Variety’s “Trailblazing Women in Entertainment for 2014,” Boston Magazine’s “50 Thought Leaders of 2014,” and Boston Magazine’s 2018 “100 Most Influential People in Boston.”