One of KCACTF’s most distinguished alumna, Paula Vogel is a new inductee to the American Theatre Hall of Fame. Paula continues her playwriting intensives with community organizations, students, theater companies, subscribers and writers across the globe. It continues to this day, sponsored by the Pembroke Center for Women at Brown University. From 2008-2012, she was the O’Neill Chair at Yale School of Drama.Internationally, he plays have been produced in in English in Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand and in translation in Italy, Germany, Taiwan, South Africa, Australia, Romania, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Poland Slovenia, Canada, Portugal, France, Greece, Japanese, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Peru, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Brazil and many other countries.Her plays have been produced by Second Stage, New York Theatre Workshop, the Vineyard Theatre, Roundabout, and Circle Repertory Company, Center Stage, Intiman, Trinity Repertory, Woolly Mammoth, Huntington Theatre, Magic Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theatre Berkeley Repertory, and Alley Theatres to name a few. Harrogate Theatre and the Donmar Theatre have produced her work in England.John Simon once remarked that Paula Vogel had more awards than a “black sofa collects lint.” Honors include induction in the American Theatre Hall of Fame, the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, the Lily Award, the Thornton Wilder Prize, the Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the William Inge Award, the Elliott Norton Award, a Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Award, a TCG Residency Award, a Guggenheim, a Pew Charitable Trust Award, and fellowships and residencies at Sundance Theatre Lab, Hedgebrook, The Rockefeller Center’s Bellagio Center, Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, and the Bunting.
A devoted teacher, you foster the future of theater, helping young playwrights find their voices and refine their craft. Her father was Jewish and her mother was Catholic.
Her work offers audiences new and complex perspectives of identity, history, and culture, challenging the perceptions we construct for ourselves and others.With her wife, Anne Sterling, the Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Biology and Gender Studies at Brown University, Vogel lives in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. In recognition of her contributions to the future of playwriting, several awards for young playwrights have been named in her honor, including the Paula Vogel Award, granted by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, and the Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting, given by the Vineyard Theatre. She is the 2019 inaugural UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Hearst Theater Lab Initiative Distinguished Playwright-in-Residence and has recently taught at Sewanee, Shanghai Theatre Academy and Nanjing University, University of Texas at Austin, and the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis. From 1984 to 2008, Paula Vogel founded and ran the playwriting program at Brown University; during that time she started a theatre workshop for women in Maximum Security at the Adults Correction Institute in Cranston, Rhode Island. Named after Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, teacher, and longtime Vineyard artist Paula Vogel, the award includes a stipend, work space, dramaturgical support, and collaborative resources to develop a new work or works at The Vineyard over the course of a season. From 2008 to 2012 she was the Eugene O’Neill Professor and chair of playwriting at Yale School of Drama, and she will serve as a judge for the Yale Drama Series, an annual international competition for emerging playwrights, in 2021 and 2022.“Circles rise together much faster than individuals can.”PAULA VOGEL is a renowned playwright whose honors are paralleled by her commitment to teaching her craft to future generations. During that time she also started a theater workshop for women in maximum-security detention at the Adults Correctional Institute in Cranston, Rhode Island. PAULA VOGELis a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose plays includeINDECENT (Tony Award for Best Play), HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE (Broadway production set for spring 2020; Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Lortel Prize, OBIE Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle and New York Drama Critics Awards for Best Play), THE LONG CHRISTMAS RIDE HOME, THE MINEOLA TWINS, THE BALTIMORE WALTZ, …