She is currently developing her screenplay, The Oldest Profession, with Fred Berner, Joanne Zippel and Olympia Dukakis. Her new play, The Mineola Twins was in production at Trinity Repertory, February 28-March 23, in Providence, RI. Other awards include the AT&T New Plays Award, the Fund for New American Plays, the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center Fellowship, several National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and the McKnight Fellowship. Other plays include Hot and Throbbing, Desdemona, And Baby Makes Seven, and The Oldest Profession. The Baltimore Waltz won the Obie for Best Play in 1992 and her anthology, The Baltimore Waltz and Other Plays, has been published by TCG. Here is her 'Who's Who' listing from the Drive Playbill: 'Paula Vogel's plays have been performed at theatres such as the Lortel Theatre and Circle Repertory in New York, the American Repertory Theatre, the Goodman, the Magic Theatre, Center Stage and Alley Theatre as well as throughout Canada, England, Brazil and Spain. She has headed the MFA playwriting program at Brown University since 1985. Vogel also is author of Desdemona, Hot and Throbbing, And Baby Makes Seven and The Oldest Profession. Vogel's latest play, The Mineola Twins, was produced at Perseverance Theatre in Alaska and is being considered by Roundabout Theatre Company for a Broadway production in the 1998-99 season. How I Learned To Drive won a 1997 Obie Award for playwriting. Vogel, who gets $5000 with the award, was a finalist for the Pulitzer in 1992 for her The Baltimore Waltz. Production spokesman Sam Rudy confirmed (April 15) that the closing notice will not be rescinded, even in light of the Pulitzer news. Ironically, the production posted a closing notice for April 19 just this week. How I Learned To Drive opened at the Vineyard Theatre Off-Broadway in 1997 and transferred to the Century Theatre. Paula Vogel's How I Learned To Drive, the story of a young woman's relationship with an uncle who sexually abuses her, was named winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama April 14. Paula Vogel Photo by Photo by Anne Sterling

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