PAULETTE HAUPT was a co-founder and has served as Artistic Director for the National Music Theater Conference at the O’Neill Theater Center since 1978.  In that capacity, she has selected and guided the development of more than one hundred musicals, including Maury Yeston, Mario Fratti and Arthur Kopit’s Nine, Enid Futterman and Howard Marren’s Portrait of Jennie, Joe Masteroff and Edward Thomas’ Desire Under the Elms, Patrick Cook and Frederick Freyer’s Captains Courageous, John Jiler and Ray Leslee’s Avenue X, Polly Pen’s Christina Alberta’s Father, Brian Crawley and Jeanine Tesori’s Violet, Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party, Stuart Ross and Debra Barsha’s Radiant Baby, Kirsten Child’s The Bubbly Black Girl, Marsha Norman, Richard Maltby and David Shire’s Take Flight, Jeff Whitty, Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez’s Avenue Q, Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik’s The Nightingale, and Quiara Alegria Hudes and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights.

She was an associate producer for Polly Pen’s Goblin Market off-Broadway, and has commissioned, developed and produced new works for OPERA America, The National Alliance for Musical Theater and Columbia Artists Management.

Since 2001, Ms. Haupt has commissioned, developed and produced new works with her New York Company Premieres, including several works by Richard Rodgers Award recipients.  In 2008, Premieres presented three original commissioned works by Ellen Fitzhugh and Michael John LaChiusa (Tres Niñas), Laura Harrington and Jenny Giering (Alice Unwrapped), and Michele Lowe and Scott Davenport Richards (A Thousand Words Come to Mind). Inner Voices: Solo Musicals premiered at the Zipper Theater in May 2008 to critical and audience acclaim.  Currently, Premieres has commissioned two new teams of playwrights and composers for Inner Voices: Solo Musicals, which will premiere in the spring of 2010.

For more than three decades, Ms. Haupt was a music director and conductor of operas and musicals worldwide, including Man of La Mancha, Sweeney Todd, Kiss Me, Kate, Savage Land at The Kennedy Center, Once Upon a Mattress on an extensive tour of India and Sri Lanka, The Music Man in Beijing, China, Christina Alberta’s Father at The Vineyard Theatre, and Lucy’s Lapses at Playwright’s Horizons.

In 2002, she was the associate conductor for the Grammy nominated recording of Joe Masteroff and Edward Thomas’ Desire Under the Elms, and recently conducted Irving Berlins’ White Christmas at the Buell Theater with the Denver Center Theater Company.

As a pianist, she has appeared worldwide in concerts with many musical theater singers, and was the only ‘Plaidette’ ever to perform in Stuart Ross’ Forever Plaid in New York.

Ms. Haupt began her first year as a Tony nominator this season.