Paula Vogel
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Paula Vogel at the WIlliam Inge Festival in 2010, where she was the honoree
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| Born |
November 16, 1951 Washington, D.C., USA |
| Occupation | Playwright, professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
The Catholic University of America Cornell University Bryn Mawr College |
| Spouse | Anne Fausto-Sterling (2004-present) |
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| Magnum opus | How I Learned to Drive (1997) |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1998) |
Paula Vogel (born November 16, 1951) is an American playwright and university professor. She received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play How I Learned to Drive. Vogel was Chair of the playwriting department at the Yale School of Drama.
Vogel was born in Washington, D.C. to Donald Stephen Vogel, an advertising executive, and Phyllis Rita Bremerman, a secretary for United States Postal Service Training and Development Center. She attended Bryn Mawr College from 1969 to 1970 and 1971 to 1972, is a graduate of The Catholic University of America (BA, 1974) and Cornell University (MA, 1976; PhD, 2016).
A productive playwright since the late 1970s, Vogel first came to national prominence with her AIDS-related seriocomedy The Baltimore Waltz, which won the Obie Award for Best Play in 1992. She is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning play How I Learned to Drive (1997), which examines the impact and echoes of child sexual abuse and incest. Other notable plays include Desdemona, A Play About A Handkerchief (1993), The Oldest Profession (1981), And Baby Makes Seven (1984), Hot 'N Throbbing (1994), and The Mineola Twins (1996).
Her play The Oldest Profession was first read in February 1981 at the Hudson Guild, New York City and directed by Gordon Edelstein. The play premiered in April 1988 at Theatre Network in Edmonton, Canada and 25th Street Theatre in Saskatoon, Canada, directed by Tom Bentley-Fisher. Subsequent productions include a reading at Brown University in April 1990 and a production by Company One in Hartford, Connecticut in October 1991. The play premiered Off-Broadway in September 2004 in a Signature Theatre Company production.
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