Paula Vogel

Paula Vogel 's play, How I Learned to Drive , received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Lortel Prize, 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. Other plays include The Long Christmas Ride Home , The Mineola Twins , The Baltimore Waltz , Hot 'N' Throbbing , Desdemona , And Baby Makes Seven , The Oldest Profession and A Civil War Christmas . In 2004-5 she was the playwright...See more

Paula Vogel 's play, How I Learned to Drive , received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Lortel Prize, 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. Other plays include The Long Christmas Ride Home , The Mineola Twins , The Baltimore Waltz , Hot 'N' Throbbing , Desdemona , And Baby Makes Seven , The Oldest Profession and A Civil War Christmas . In 2004-5 she was the playwright in residence at The Signature Theatre in New York which produced three of her works. Her most recent awards include the Theatre Hall of Fame, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Dramatists Guild (2011), and the 2010 William Inge Festival Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre Award. She is most honored to have two awards to emerging playwrights named after her: the Paula Vogel Award, created by the American College Theatre Festival in 2003, and the Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting is given annually by the Vineyard Theatre, since 2007. She has taught for 24 years at Brown University and for five years at the Yale School of Drama where she was the Eugene O'Neill Professor (adjunct) of Playwriting. See less