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Paula Vogel Appointed Eugene O'Neill Professor at Yale

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Paula Vogel" border="0" height="298" hspace="10" src="https://cloudimages.broadwayworld.com/photoops/theatregallery/37.jpg?format=auto&width=1400" title="Paula Vogel " vspace="10" width="202"/>Yale School of Drama is pleased to announce that Yale University President Richard C. Levin has appointed Paula Vogel as the Eugene O'Neill Professor (Adjunct) and Chair of the Department of Playwriting, effective July 1, 2008, for a five-year term.

Paula Vogel has served as the Director of MFA and Undergraduate Playwriting at Brown University since 1984, and is the Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor in Creative Writing.  She previously taught courses in the Theatre Arts and Women's Studies programs at Cornell University.  One of the most widely produced and honored playwrights writing in the English language, her plays include The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Mineola Twins, How I Learned to Drive, Hot 'n' Throbbing, The Baltimore Waltz, Desdemona, And Baby Makes Seven, and The Oldest Profession.  Her work has garnered numerous awards and prizes including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Susan Smith Blackburn Award, New York Drama Critics Award, Obie Award, AT&T New Plays Award, among many others, as well as fellowships from the Pew Charitable Trust, National Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.  She is a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences.  Her plays are published by Theatre Communications Group.  Ms. Vogel received her BA from Catholic University and completed her graduate training at Cornell University.  She is currently working on a new play entitled A Civil War Christmas, and her memoir Beyond the Beltway.

Ms. Vogel will interview applicants for the Playwriting Department's Class of 2011 this winter and spring, and will assume full-time duties at the School of Drama beginning July 1, 2008. 

Photo of Paula Vogel by Walter McBride/Retna ltd.





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