Special Guest: Paula Vogel

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Paula Vogel is an award-winning playwright and drama professor who crafts her plays around difficult subjects like AIDS, incest, and prostitution. In 1998 she received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for How I Learned to Drive. Her other plays include The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Baltimore Waltz, Hot’N’Throbbing, Desdemona, and The Oldest Profession— about aging former prostitutes in New York City. She teaches at Brown University, where she directs the MFA playwriting program.

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