March 19, 2025
The Harold and Ethel L. Stellfox Visiting Writers and Scholars Program presents Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel, who visits Dickinson this spring to serve a Stellfox residency.
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As the recipient of this year's Stellfox Award, Vogel will deliver a public presentation in Allison Hall, followed by a Q&A and book signing.
Vogel's works include the Pulitzer Prize-winning play How I Learned to Drive (also awarded the Lortel Prize, Obie Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle and New York Drama Critics Award: Best Play); Mother Play and Indecent (both nominated for a Tony Award: Best Play); The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Mineola Twins, The Baltimore Waltz, Hot'n'Throbbing, Desdemona, And Baby Makes Seven, The Oldest Profession and A Civil War Christmas. Her plays have been widely produced in noted venues all around the world.
Vogel's many honors include induction in the American Theatre Hall of Fame, the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, the Lily Award, the Thornton Wilder Prize, the Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the William Inge Award, the Elliott Norton Award, a Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Award, a TCG Residency Award, a Guggenheim, a Pew Charitable Trust Award and numerous fellowships and residencies. She is particularly proud of her Thirtini Award from 13P, and honored by awards in her name: the Paula Vogel Award for playwrights, given by The Vineyard Theatre, and the Paula Vogel Award given by the American College Theatre Festival.
Vogel founded Bard at the Gate, a virtual reading series designed to become a widely accessible platform for powerful, overlooked plays by BIPOC, female, LGBTQIA+ and disabled artists, and she is the founder and past director of the playwriting program at Brown University. A former playwright-in-residence at The Signature Theatre, Vogel additionally started a theatre workshop for women in maximum security at the Adults Correction Institute in Cranston, R.I. From 2008 to 2012, she was the O’Neill Chair at Yale School of Drama.
Learn more about Paula Vogel.
Learn more about the Stellfox program.
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Further information
- Location: Allison - Great Hall
- Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
- Cost: Free