Paula Vogel
American playwright and teacher whose work explores sexuality, abuse, and memory with formal inventiveness and dark humor. How I Learned to Drive won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. As a teacher at Yale, she has shaped the careers of scores of American playwrights.
Works
- How I Learned to DriveComing-of-age play about sexual abuse told through driving lessons and confessions
- The Baltimore WaltzMemory play of sisters' shared experience of AIDS epidemic and loss in Baltimore
- The Mineola TwinsComedy spanning 30 years of twin sisters' diverging lives under different political regimes
- DesdemonaImagined dialogue between Othello's wife exploring agency beyond Shakespeare's tragedy
- A Civil War ChristmasExperimental play set during Civil War Christmas exploring memory and reconciliation
- The Oldest ProfessionPlay exploring women's sex work through economics, narrative, and female perspective
- IndecentDrama about the play The God of Vengeance and prosecution for obscenity in early America
- And Baby Makes SevenPlay about lesbian couple and their unconventional journey to parenthood and family