Adelphi University to Present HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE

As part of their Pulitzer Prize-winning season, the Department of Theatre at Adelphi University's Performing Arts Center (AUPAC) is pleased to present the 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning play How I Learned to Drive, written by playwright Paula Vogel and directed by Adelphi Adjunct Professor Markus Potter. This production features the students of the theatre department and will run from Tuesday, October 6 to Sunday, October 11in the Black Box Theater located at AUPAC, 1 South Avenue, Garden City, NY.

The co-winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and co-winner of the 1998 Lucille Lortel Award for outstanding play, How I Learned to Drive is the devastating yet forgiving of survival seen through the troubling relationship between an older man and a young girl who learns the rules of the road and life from behind the wheel as a sufferer of child abuse.

Director Markus Potter's directing credits include Stalking the Bogeyman off-Broadway, which earned a New York Times critics pick and an Outer Critics Circle Award Nomination. As producer, The Velocity of Autumn on Broadway with Estelle Parsons. Projects in development include Our Friends The Enemy: The 1914 Christmas Truce tickets by Alex Gwyther, opening on Theatre Row this December, Lost Boy Found In Whole Foods by Tammy Ryan at the Portland Stage company this spring, the London premiere of Stalking The Bogeyman in the fall of 2016, and the world premiere of Someone Else by Charlotte Cohn and Jason Odell Williams at North Carolina Stage Company this fall, followed by the off-Broadway premiere next summer.

Adelphi University Performing Arts Center (AUPAC) is one of Long Island's premier cultural arts venues for entertainment of all kinds. Tickets are currently on sale and are priced at $20, with discounts available to seniors, students and alumni. For more information about all events at AUPAC and to purchase tickets, visit aupac.adelphi.edu. Information is available at The Lucia and Steven N. Fischer Box Office at (516) 877-4000 or boxoffice@adelphi.edu. Regular box office hours are Tuesday through Friday from 1-6 p.m. The box office is also open two hours before most scheduled performances.