Paula Vogel

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Paula Vogel (2010)

Paula Vogel (born November 16, 1951 in Washington, DC ) is an American playwright and university professor emeritus .

biography

Paula Vogel was born in Washington, DC , to Phyllis and Donald Vogel . Her brother Carl died of complications from AIDS . After completing school, she applied unsuccessfully for a place at the Yale School of Drama . Then Vogel began studying in her hometown at the Catholic University of America , where she graduated in 1974 . She then moved to Cornell University on a scholarship , where she graduated in 1977. Since 2003, Vogel has been a professor of theater and the performing arts at Brown University . At the end of their academic career bird was in 2016 at Cornell University for her dissertation on their own piece of Indecent the general doctoral degrees awarded.

In 1998 she received the Pulitzer Prize for her piece How I learned to drive . The comedy covers topics such as child abuse and incest. Furthermore, Vogel wrote the play The Baltimore Waltz , for which she received the Obie Award in 1992 . She dedicated the work to her brother. Other works by Vogel include Hot'N Throbbing , Desdemona , And Baby Makes Seven , The Mineola Twins and The Oldest Profession .

In 2004 Vogel received the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Literature Prize . In 2006 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2012 she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame .

On September 26, 2004, Vogel married developmental geneticist Anne Fausto-Sterling .

Dramas

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The Baltimore Waltz , 2015
  • Swan Song of Sir Henry , 1974
  • Meg , 1977
  • 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
  • Civil War Christmas , 2008
  • Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq , 2014
  • Indecent , 2015

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Paula A Vogel - Background . At vivo.brown.edu , accessed March 30, 2019
  2. ^ A b Paula Vogel, Anne Fausto-Sterling . From nytimes.com on September 26, 2004 , accessed March 30, 2019
  3. ^ William Henderson: Paula Vogel driven to success. (No longer available online.) Innewsweekly.com, March 29, 2007, archived from the original on September 28, 2007 ; accessed on March 30, 2019 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.innewsweekly.com
  4. ^ Sara Warner: Playwright Vogel returns to campus for Ph.D. . March 29, 2016 at news.cornell.edu , accessed March 30, 2019
  5. ^ The 1998 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Drama - How I Learned to Drive, by Paula Vogel . From pulitzer.org , accessed March 30, 2019
  6. ^ How I Learned to Drive Essays and Criticism . From enotes.com, accessed March 30, 2019
  7. ↑ Andrew Gans, Michael Gioia: Tony and Emmy Award winner Tyne Daly hosts The 42nd Annual Theater Hall of Fame ceremony, which is held Jan. 28 at 7:30 PM in the Gershwin Theater's North Rotunda. . January 28, 2013 from playbill.com, accessed March 30, 2019

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personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Paula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC