Pulitzer-Winning Playwright Paula Vogel to Speak at Portland Stage

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel will join Anita Stewart, Portland Stage Executive Artistic Director, on the Mainstage for a discussion about her work on Monday, October 2, 2017 at 7 p.m. Free! Limited seating, reservations recommended.

Vogel's plays include How I Learned to Drive (Pulitzer Prize 1998), Indecent (winner of multiple Tony Awards), The Baltimore Waltz, and others. This discussion made possible by the Dramatists Guild Fund Traveling Masters Program.

Paula Vogel has written How I Learned to Drive (Pulitzer Prize, New York Drama Critics Award, Obie Award, Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and many more.) Other plays include A Civil War Christmas, The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Mineola Twins, Hot 'N' Throbbin, The Baltimore Waltz, Desdemona, And Baby Makes Seven, and The Oldest Profession. Vogel's play Indecent debuted on Broadway in April 2017, and went on to receive Tony Awards for Best Director and Best Lighting Design.

Her plays have been produced by Second Stage, New York Theatre Workshop, the Vineyard Theatre, Roundabout, and Circle Repertory Company. Her plays have been produced regionally all over the country at the 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.

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