Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright
Paula Vogel to Read

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel will give a reading at Bryn Mawr College on Thursday, March 1, at 7:30 p.m., in Thomas Great Hall.

Free and open to the public, Vogel's appearance is part of the College's yearlong Creative Writing Program Reading Series, which features award-winning poets, fiction and nonfiction writers and playwrights. For further information, contact the Office for the Arts at 610-526-5210.

Vogel has no fear of controversial subjects. Her plays have dealt with AIDS, pornography, prostitution, pedophilia and gay and lesbian relationships. Controversy, however, has been no obstruction to critical praise.

Her play How I Learned to Drive was awarded the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. She has won two Obies and the 2004 Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Vogel is Professor of Creative Writing at Brown University, where she directs the M.F.A. Playwriting program, and she has taught widely in this country and abroad.

Vogel's latest play is A Civil War Christmas, a family musical set on Christmas Eve in the final days of the U.S. Civil War.

Her other plays include The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Mineola Twins, The Baltimore Waltz, Hot 'n' Throbbing, Desdemona, And Baby Makes Seven and The Oldest Profession.

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