Paula Vogel to Receive Schwarzman Award

The Stephen and Christine Schwarzman Legacy Award for Excellence in Theater will be presented to Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel on Friday, April 17 at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. A $10,000 scholarship in her name will be given, per Vogel’s request, to Inked Baby playwright Christina Anderson.

Vogel’s plays include How I Learned to Drive, The Long Christmas Ride Home, and A Civil War Christmas. She is currently Playwright-in-Residence at Yale Repertory Theatre and adjunct Eugene O’Neill Professor of Playwriting and Chair of Playwriting at Yale School of Drama. During her two decades leading the graduate playwriting program and new play festival at Brown University, she also helped to develop a nationally-recognized center for educational theater, culminating in the creation of the Brown/Trinity Repertory Theatre Consortium.

Previous recipients of the award include Ming Cho Lee, Lloyd Richards, Michael Kahn, and Zelda Fichandler.