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2007 WOMEN OF EXCELLENCE AWARD RECIPIENTS
Doris Burke | Paula Vogel, ABD, BA | Beatriz E. Perez, MPH
Gemma Guinguing | Women's Fund of RI | Maureen A. McDonough-Roddy
FINE ARTS & HUMANITIES
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PAULA VOGEL
Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Creative Writing, Brown University
1998 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright
Paula Vogel's play, How I Learned to Drive, received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Lortel, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and New York Drama Critics Awards for Best Play, as well as winning Ms. Vogel her second OBIE.
Drive has been produced all over the world and her screenplay has been in development for HBO. Her other plays include The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Mineola Twins, The Baltimore Waltz, Hot'N'Throbbing, Desdemona, And Baby Makes Seven, and The Oldest Profession. In 2004-5 she was the playwright in residence at The Signature Theatre in New York which produced three of her works. There are two awards named in her honor, The Paula Vogel Award for the American College Theatre Festival, and The Paula Vogel Award at the Vineyard Theatre in New York, both for emerging playwrights.
Ms. Vogel won the 2004 Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the OBIE for Best Play in 1992, the Rhode Island Pell Award in the Arts, the Hull-Warriner Award, The Laura Pels Award, the Pew Charitable Trust Residency Award, a Guggenheim, an AT&T New Plays Award, the Fund for New American Plays, the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center Fellowship, several National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the McKnight Fellowship, the Bunting Fellowship, and the Governor's Award for the Arts. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Theatre Communications Group has published three books of her work, The Mammary Plays, The Baltimore Waltz and Other Plays and The Long Christmas Ride Home. Her new play, A Civil War Christmas is in development.
Currently, Ms. Vogel is the Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Creative Writing at Brown University, where she directs the MFA Playwriting program. She has conducted playwriting bootcamps in London at the Royal Shakespeare Company, in Los Angeles at the Audrey Skirball Kenis, in Toronto at CanStages, in Brazil, in Prague, and at the Adult Corrections Institute for Women (Maximum Security) in Rhode Island. She has taught at universities all over the United States, and she has taught workshops for interns, subscribers and board members at theatre companies around the country.
