23 Aug 2025

Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright, Paula Vogel

From Saturday Morning, 10:06 am on 23 August 2025

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Paula Vogel's Mother Play is an absurd, funny, and unflinching exploration of family, identity, and the ties that both bind and break us. In its Broadway debut (which starred Jessica Lange), Mother Play earned four Tony Award nominations in 2024, won two Drama Desk Awards and an Outer Critics Circle Award, and has already been heralded as a new American classic.

Paula Vogel's play How I Learned to Drive earned her the playwright Pulitzer Prize in 1998, and made her the first openly gay woman to win the award. 

One of the most esteemed playwrights of her generation, Paula speaks to Susie Ferguson. 

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