Paula Vogel
Paula Vogel
Paula Vogelis an American playwright and university professor. She received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play How I Learned to Drive. Vogel was Chair of the playwriting department at the Yale School of Drama...
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth16 November 1951
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I am very high right now. I am so proud of the production of my play we have in New York and grateful to director Mark Brokaw and all the actors and actresses who played the roles.
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Sarah Ruhl is fast becoming a major voice in the 21st century American theatre. Having witnessed the transformative effect of her unique and singular plays for over a decade, I have remained fiercely optimistic about the future of American theatre in the century ahead. I eagerly anticipate the transformation of the Arena audience in my own hometown of Washington, D.C.
responsibility issues people
I want to seduce the audience. If they can go along for a ride they wouldn't ordinarily take, or don't even know they're taking, then they might see highly charged political issues in a new and unexpected way. . . . The theatre is now so afraid to face its social demons that we've given that responsibility over to film. But it will always be harder to deal with certain issues in the theatre. The live event - being watched by people as we watch - makes it seem all the more dangerous.
theatre calling process
Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process.
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we were all starving in New York, and none of us were getting produced, and we were just frustrated.