Paula Vogel (born November 16, 1951, in Washington, D.C.) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and university professor. is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Washington, D.C. (disambiguation). ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ...

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, 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. According to Paula Vogel, "My writing isn't actually guided by issues. I know it seems that way, but I don't sit down and think, Oh, there's this issue I'm bothered about. I only write about things that directly impact my life. When I write, there's a pain that I have to reach, and a release I have to work toward for myself. So it's really a question of the particular emotional circumstance that I want to express, a character that appears, a moment in time, and then I write the play backwards." Vogel's family, especially her brother Carl Vogel, serves as an influence to her writings. Carl's likeness appears in such plays as "The Long Christmas Ride Home," "The Baltimore Waltz," and "And Baby Makes Seven." Although not known for having one specific theme throughout her plays she deals largely with issues that are traditionally upsetting. Theatre Critic Jill Dolan comments that “Vogel tends to select sensitive, difficult, fraught issues to theatricalize, and to spin them with a dramaturgy that’s at once creative, highly imaginative, and brutally honest." The 1998 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, Paula Vogels How I Learned to Drive follows the relationship between Lil Bit and her aunts husband, Uncle Peck. ... Bad Touch redirects here. ... Incest is defined as sexual relations between closely related persons (often within the immediate family) such that it is either illegal or socially taboo. ... The Obie Awards, short for Off-Broadway Theater Awards, are annual awards bestowed by the newspaper The Village Voice on theater artists performing in New York City. ... Hot N Throbbing is a 1990 one act play written by Pulitzer prize-winning playwright and Brown University professor Paula Vogel. ... The Mineola Twins is a play by Paula Vogel. ...

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. As of July 1, 2008, she will be an adjunct professor and the chairwoman of the playwriting department at Yale School of Drama in a five-year appointment. ^[1] She has been 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. Daniel Pegleg Sullivan was a Chicagoan who is often credited with being the first to sound the alarm when a fire broke out in Catherine OLearys barn on October 8, 1871, the beginning of the Great Chicago Fire. ... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ... Sarah Ruhl (born 1974) is an American playwright. ... Nilo Cruz at the post-performance dicussion of A Bicycle Country at Dartmouth College, March 5, 2007 Nilo Cruz is an Cuban-American playwright, the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. ... Yale School of Drama traces its roots to the Yale Dramatic Association, the second oldest college theatre association in the country, founded in 1900. ... Brown University is a private university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ... Cornell redirects here. ... The Catholic University of America (abbreviated CUA), located in Washington, D.C., is unique as the national university of the Roman Catholic Church and as the only higher education institution founded by U.S. Roman Catholic bishops. ... Bryn Mawr College (pronounced ) is a highly selective womens liberal arts college located in Bryn Mawr, a community in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, ten miles northwest of Philadelphia. ...

She received the 2004 Award for Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. The American Academy of Arts and Letters is an organization whose goal is to foster, assist, and sustain an interest in American literature, music, and art. ...

In 2003, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts instituted The Paula Vogel Award in Playwrighting. According to the regulations of the competition the "this award is offered to the best student-written play that celebrates diversity and encourages tolerance while exploring issues of dis-empowered voices not traditionally considered mainstream." The award was inspired by her superior work as an undergraduate student at Cornell University. The first place prize is a $2500 fellowship to attend at New Play Development Laboratory. Second prize is $1000 and a grant of $250 to the supporting department of the play.

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. The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... For other uses, see Christian (disambiguation). ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... Species Human immunodeficiency virus 1 Human immunodeficiency virus 2 Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS, a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections). ... For other uses, see AIDS (disambiguation). ...

On September 26, 2004, Vogel and Anne Fausto-Sterling, a Brown professor, were married in Truro, Massachusetts. ^[2] Anne Fausto-Sterling, Ph. ...

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)

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References

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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