Paula Vogel was born on November 16,1951 and is an American playwright who received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play How I Learned to Drive.
16 Facts About Paula Vogel
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From 2008 to 2012, Paula Vogel was Eugene O'Neill Professor of Playwriting and department chair at the Yale School of Drama, as well as playwright in residence at the Yale Repertory Theatre.
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Paula Vogel was born in Washington, DC, to Donald Stephen Paula Vogel, an advertising executive, and Phyllis Rita, a secretary for the United States Postal Service Training and Development Center.
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Paula Vogel's father was Jewish, whereas her mother was Roman Catholic.
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Paula Vogel attended Bryn Mawr College from 1969 to 1970 and 1971 to 1972, and is a graduate of The Catholic University of America and Cornell University.
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Paula Vogel, a renowned teacher of playwriting, counts among her former students Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winner Bridget Carpenter, Obie Award-winner Adam Bock, MacArthur Fellow Sarah Ruhl, and Pulitzer Prize-winners Nilo Cruz, Lynn Nottage, and Quiara Alegria Hudes.
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Paula Vogel left Brown in 2008 to assume her positions as adjunct professor and the Chair of the playwriting department at Yale School of Drama, which she held until 2012, and the Playwright-in-Residence at Yale Repertory Theatre.
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Paula Vogel is currently the Eugene O'Neill Professor of Playwriting at Yale School of Drama and playwright-in-residence at the Yale Repertory Theatre, as well as an artistic associate at Long Wharf Theatre.
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Paula Vogel previously served as an instructor at Cornell University during her graduate work in the mid-1970s.
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Paula Vogel had two brothers: Carl, who died of AIDS in 1988, and Mark.
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Paula Vogel married Brown University professor and author Anne Fausto-Sterling in Truro, Massachusetts, on September 26,2004.
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Subsequent to her Obie Award for Best Play and Pulitzer Prize in Drama, Paula Vogel received the Award for Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004.
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Paula Vogel won the 1998 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for How I Learned to Drive.
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In 2013, Paula Vogel was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
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In 2016, Paula Vogel successfully completed and defended her doctoral thesis at Cornell University, more than 40 years after she began her graduate work.
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Paula Vogel is featured in the book 50 Key Figures in Queer US Theatre, with a profile written by theatre scholar Sara Warner.