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35 quotes by Diane Paulus

Diane Marie Paulus (born 1966 in New York City, USA) is an American director of theater and opera who became Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater (ART) at 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.
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The mission of the A.R.T. is to expand the boundaries of theater through works of the canon and the new works of tomorrow.

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Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.

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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... →

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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... →

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I knew ART was was going to give me this opportunity to expand my role as a director and finally let me have a seat at the table where I could get... →

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I really challenge every actor at the beginning of a process, and I always say, 'I have an idea that I'm going to bring to the table. I hope... →

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I think every theater in America wants a younger audience... and you can't just hope to have a younger audience, you have to program things that... →

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I think in our culture there's been a tendency for people to blame the audience. There is a tendency in our industry to say, 'The audience... →

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We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying... →

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