Julianne Boyd

Julianne Boyd (Artistic Director) is the co-founder (1995) and Artistic Director of the Barrington Stage Company (BSC) in the Berkshires, where she has directed many productions, including the critically acclaimed productions of West Side Story (2018) and the 2017 hit production of Company, starring Aaron Tveit. She also directed the world premiere of Christopher Demos-Brown’s American Son, which won the Laurents-Hatcher Award for Best New Play by an Emerging Playwright in 2016. Other productions she has directed include the world premieres of Mark St. Germain’s Best of Enemies, Dancing Lessons, Dr. Ruth, All the Way, and the critically acclaimed revival of Goldman and Sondheim’s Follies. In 1997 she directed BSC’s smash hit production of Cabaret, which won six Boston Theater Critics Awards and transferred to the Hasty Pudding Theatre in Cambridge for an extended run.

Boyd conceived and directed the Broadway musical Eubie!, a show based on the music of Eubie Blake which starred Gregory Hines and garnered three Tony nominations. She also co-conceived and directed (with Joan Micklin Silver) the award-winning Off Broadway musical revue A…My Name Is Alice (Outer Critics’ Award) and its sequel A…My Name Is Still Alice.

At Barrington Stage, she has produced the world premieres of William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin’s The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Mark St. Germain’s Freud’s Last Session and the revival of On The Town – all of which have moved successfully to New York to Broadway or Off Broadway. American Son also moved to Broadway with an entirely new production produced by Jeffrey Richards.

In 2000, Ms. Boyd created the Playwright Mentoring Project, BSC’s youth at-risk program that won the prestigious Coming Up Taller Award in 2007. This award, given by the President’s committee on the Arts and the Humanities, is the nation’s highest honor for after school and out of school programming.

Boyd and William Finn created the Musical Theatre Lab in 2006, where more than 18 New Musicals have been developed, including the world premiere of Finn and Sheinkin’s The Royal Family of Broadway in 2018. In 2012 Boyd started the 10×10 New Play Festival, and with the City of Pittsfield, the city-wide 10×10 Upstreet Arts Festival. In 2013 she founded the Musical Theatre Conservatory, BSC’s professional training program for college-aged musical theatre performers and directors.

From 1992 to 1998, Ms. Boyd served as President of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. She holds a Ph.D. in Theatre History from CUNY Graduate Center.

She and her husband Norman have three grown children.