Diane Paulus is the founder and artistic director of the Tony Award-winning smash hit rock musical, Pippin. A native of Detroit, Michigan, she first joined a theater group as a teenager and was a member of the original cast of RENT. In 1997, she was named artistic director of the Encores! concert series at New York's City Center. She has been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships and is a recipient of a Drama Desk Award
In addition to Pippin, she serves as executive director of the South Street Seaport Museum in lower Manhattan, which also hosts her nonprofit organization, the Charles H. Revson Foundation.
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.Diane Paulus
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.Diane Paulus
