Creative Writing Program | Reading Series

Reading Series, Spring 2003

Paula Vogel, playwright

Paula Vogel's play, How I Learned To Drive, received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Lortel, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and New York Drama Critics Awards for Best Play, as well as winning her second Obie. It has been produced all over the world, including South Africa, England, Australia, Greece, Germany, Slovenia, Canada, Italy, Turkey, Mexico, Croatia and Spain. Her other plays include The Mineola Twins, The Baltimore Waltz, Hot 'n' Throbbing, Desdemona, And Baby Makes Seven and The Oldest Profession.
Paula Vogel won the Obie for Best Play in 1992, the Rhode Island Pell Award in the Arts, the Hull-Warriner Award, The Laura Pell Award, the Pew Charitable Trust Senior Award, a Guggenheim, an AT&T New Plays Award, the Fund for New American Plays, the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center Fellowship, several National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the McKnight Fellowship, the Bunting Fellowship, and the Governor's Award for the Arts. Currently, she is working on her new play, The Long Christmas Ride Home, with Oskar Eustis and the Trinity Repertory Company, and the distinguished puppeteer Basil Twist, for the end of the 2002-3 season. It is slated for Long Wharf in Fall 2003.
She has taught at Brown University since 1984; this coming year she joins the faculty as the Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Creative Writing at Brown University and the Trinity Conservatory in Providence, Rhode Island to form a consortium between the playwriting program and the MFA actors and directors with Oskar Eustis. She has conducted theatrical bootcamps with playwrights in Brazil, Prague, London, Los Angeles and for women in maximum security at the Adult Corrections Institute in Rhode Island and for critics, staff members and interns at Arena Stage in Washington DC.

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