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Plat House Theatre Fellows presents:

The Impossible Game of Theatre

A Moderated Q&A with Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel

Tickets are $5, free for students with ID and can be purchased or picked up (you must have a ticket) at the Annenberg Center box office - 3680 Walnut St. 215.898.3900.

Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Lortel, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and New York Drama Critics Awards for Best Play, and an Obie Award. Her screenplay adaptation has been in development for HBO. Paula Vogel’s other plays include The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Mineola Twins, The Baltimore Waltz, Hot N Throbbing, Desdemona, And Baby Makes Seven and The Oldest Profession. Paula Vogel has received the Rhode Island Pell Award in the Arts, the Hull-Warriner Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award, the Pew Charitable Trust Senior Award, a Guggenheim, an AT&T New Plays Award, the Fund for New American Plays, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center Fellowship, several National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the McKnight Fellowship, MacDowell Colony residencies, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Prize in Literature. In addition, she is the Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Creative Writing at Brown University, directing the MFA Playwriting program.

Ms. Vogel is the second Platt House Theatre Fellow and will also be visiting a Theatre Arts class and joining select students, staff and faculty for a private brunch.

Co-Sponsors of this program include: The Penn Theatre Initiative, The Theatre Arts Program, The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, The Kelly Writers House, Penn Women's Center, The LGBT Center and SPEC Connaisance.