![]() Among her many honors, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2013 and won the 2017 Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement. She headed the graduate playwriting program at Brown University until 2008, when she became chair of the playwriting department at Yale School of Drama, where she still teaches as of 2017. Since the 1980s, Vogel has run playwriting “boot camps,” challenging participants to create plays in 48 hours. Paula Vogel was born on 16 November 1951 in Washington, District of Columbia. ![]() ![]() In 2017 she was nominated for a Tony award for Indecent, which investigated the censorship of Sholem Asch’s 1923 play God of Vengeance for its treatment of religion and lesbian romance. ![]() By Aisling Murphy Staff Reporter Wed., Oct. In 1992 she won an Obie award for The Baltimore Waltz, which focused on the AIDS crisis, and followed this success with a Pulitzer prize in 1997 for How I Learned to Drive, a play about child abuse. Indecent premiered on Broadway in 2017 when Vogel was 65 and had already won a Pulitzer Prize for How I Learned to Drive. She debuted her first play, Swan Song of Sir Henry, in 1974 and went on to produce new plays every few years. Vogel graduated from the Catholic University of America in 1974 and earned a master’s degree from Cornell in 1976. ![]() Although she made her Broadway debut with Indecent in 2016, playwright Paula Vogel has long been hailed for her unflinching exploration of taboo topics, from the AIDS crisis to child abuse. ![]()
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