Julianne Boyd

Julianne Boyd co-founded the Barrington Stage Company in January 1995. She has directed many productions at BSC, including Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2010), A Streetcar Named Desire (2009), West Side Story (2007), Follies (2005), the world premiere musical The Game, based on Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Mack and Mabel, A Little Night Music, South Pacific, Cyrano de Bergerac and The Importance of Being Earnest.

Also at Barrington Stage she directed A...My Name Will Always Be Alice, a combination of her award-winning Off-Broadway musical revues A...My Name Is Alice and A...My Name Is Still Alice. In 1997 she directed BSC's smash hit production of Cabaret, which won six Boston Theatre Critics Awards and transferred to the Hasty Pudding Theatre in Cambridge for an extended run.

Ms. 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 has also worked extensively in New York and in regional theatres where her directorial credits include As You Like It and Tea at the Old Globe Theatre; Sweet and Hot: The Songs Of Harold Arlen at the McCarter Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse and the Coconut Grove Playhouse; and The Country Wife at Syracuse Stage. Her production of Tea at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles won three Dramalogue Awards, including a special award for ensemble acting.

From 1992 to 1998 Ms. Boyd served as President of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, the national union representing professional directors and choreographers in the U.S.