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Vol 1. No 8. May, 1998
Queer of the Month
Paula Vogel
Very few female dramatists have ever won the Pulizer Prize, but Paula Vogel has done just that for her play How I Learned To Drive.
“You hold your breath and try not to think about it,” she told The Washington Blade. “At this point, after spending more than 20 years writing for the theatre, I’ve learned that everything is arbitrary.”
Vogel goes down in history as being one of a handful of women to win the coveted prize for drama, as well as the first openly lesbian woman to do so. Not only that, she becomes the only openly lesbian woman to ever win a Pulizer Prize in any category throughout the Prize’s 80-year history.
How I Learned To Drive, which opened at New York’s Vineyard Theater just over a year ago, garnered an Obie Award, a Drama Desk Award and many, many others. The subject matter was controversial - a young woman looking back on her relationship with an uncle who had sexually abused her.
Vogel joins gay Pulizer Prize winners Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson and Tony Kushner. She grew up in Maryland, just outside of Baltimore, and has taught playwriting at Brown University in Providence, RI, since 1985.
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