Paula Vogel

Paula Vogel (born November 16 1951, in Washington, D.C.) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and university professor.

She is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning play How I Learned To Drive, which deals with child sexual abuse and incest. The Baltimore Waltz, a tribute to her brother, won the Obie award for Best Play in 1992. Other plays include Hot 'N Throbbing, Desdemona, And Baby Makes Seven, The Mineola Twins, and The Oldest Profession.

A renowned teacher of playwriting, Vogel counts among her former students Bridget Carpenter, Daniel Sullivan, MacArthur Fellow Sarah Ruhl, and Pulitzer Prize-winner Nilo Cruz. She is currently the Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University (since 2003). She previously was an instructor at Cornell University, Theatre Arts and Women's Studies. At Brown University: from 1985-1999, she was a Professor (Assistant-Associate-Full), from 1999-2003, Professor at Large. Paula Vogel is an alumna of The Catholic University of America (1974, B.A.) and Cornell University (1974-1977, M.A.). She also attended Bryn Mawr College 1969-70, 1971-72.

She received the 2004 Award for Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Her father, the late Donald S. Vogel, was Jewish and mother, the late Phyllis R. Vogel, was Christian. Her father was the founder of the Carl Vogel Center in Washington, DC, a service provider for people with HIV and AIDS, created as a memorial to Vogel's brother. Her mother worked at the Postal Service Training and Development Center.

On September 26, 2004, Vogel and Anne Fausto-Sterling, a Brown professor, were married in Truro, Massachusetts. ^[1]

Works

• Swan Song of Sir Henry (1974)
• Meg (1977) -- not to be confused with the film of the same name
• Apple-Brown Betty (1979)
• Desdemona, A Play about a Handkerchief (1979)
• Bertha in Blue (1981)
• The Oldest Profession (1981)
• And Baby Makes Seven (1986)
• The Baltimore Waltz (1992)
• Hot 'N Throbbing (1994)
• The Mineola Twins (1996)
• How I Learned To Drive (1997)
• The Long Christmas Ride Home (2004)

References

External links

• Paula Vogel - Downstage Center interview at American Theatre Wing.org
• Brown University information
• Biographical information on enotes.com
• Profile in innewsweekly.com, March 29, 2007

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