Julianne Boyd

Julianne Boyd (born December 22, 1944) is an American theater director and Artistic Director of Barrington Stage Company, Pittsfield, MA.

Boyd received a BA in Theater from Beaver College in Pennsylvania (now known as Arcadia University) and a doctorate in Theater from the City University of New York.

Boyd is perhaps best known as the founder (1995) and Artistic Director of the Berkshire-based Barrington Stage Company (BSC). The company, which was originally based in Sheffield, Massachusetts, moved to Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 2006. Barrington Stage Company produced the world premiere of William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin's musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee in 2004. The show moved to Broadway's Circle in the Square Theater, where it garnered six Tony Award nominations, winning two for Outstanding Book (Rachel Sheinkin) and Outstanding Male Performer in a Musical (Dan Fogler). Barrington Stage also produced the world premiere of Mark St. Germain’s Freud’s Last Session in 2009 starring Martin Rayner and Mark H. Dold. It later moved Off-Broadway and played for two years. In October 2014, Barrington Stage’s 2013 production of On The Town, directed by John Rando and choreographed by Josh Bergasse, opened on Broadway at the Lyric Theater.

Boyd has also directed on Broadway - notably a 1978 production of Eubie!, a musical revue based on the works of Eubie Blake which she also conceived. The production starred Gregory Hines and Maurice Hines, and received three Tony Award nominations. She also conceived and directed the award-winning Off-Broadway musical revue A... My Name Is Alice in 1983-84 with Joan Micklin Silver and its sequel A…My Name Is Still Alice at the Second Stage, NYC in 1992. Boyd has directed at regional theaters nationwide, including the Old Globe (As You Like It and Velina Hasu Houston’s Tea), the McCarter Theater and Asolo Theaters (Sweet and Hot: the Music of Harold Arlen) and Syracuse Stage (The Country Wife). At Barrington Stage she directed the world premieres of Mark St. Germain’s The Best of Enemies (2011), Dr. Ruth All The Way (2012), now entitled Becoming Dr Ruth, and Dancing Lessons (2014). At BSC she also directed the critically acclaimed productions of Cabaret, Follies, Sweeney Todd, and All My Sons.

She served on the Board of the Stage Directors and Choreographers (SDC) from 1980-1998, and as President from 1992-1998.