US-RPB-of1UF.V1 Guide to the Paula Vogel Office files1989-1996 Finding aid prepared by Brown University Library staff Processing funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Brown University Archives
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English 4.5 Linear feet 1989-1996 The Paula Vogel office files comprise one series of undergraduate and graduate student plays. The bulk of the plays date from 1989 to 1996. Vogel, Paula Vogel (Paula) Office Files Biographical/Historical note

Paula Vogel (born November 16, 1951) is an American playwright and university Professor. Vogel was born in Washington, D.C. to Donald Stephen Vogel, an advertising executive, and Phyllis Rita Bremerman, a secretary for United States Postal Service Training and Development Center. She is a graduate of The Catholic University of America (1974, B.A.) and Cornell University (1976, M.A.). She first came to national attention with her AIDS-related seriocomedy The Baltimore Waltz, which won the Obie award for Best Play in 1992. She is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning play How I Learned To Drive (1997), which examines the impact and echoes of child sexual abuse and incest. Other notable plays include Desdemona, A Play About A Handkerchief (1979); The Oldest Profession (1981); And Baby Makes Seven (1984); Hot 'N Throbbing (1994); The Mineola Twins (1996) and The Long Christmas Ride Home (2006). During her two decades leading the graduate playwriting program and new play festival at Brown University, Vogel helped developed a nationally recognized center for educational theatre, culminating in the creation of the Brown/Trinity Repertory Company Consortium with Oskar Eustis, then Trinity's artistic director, in 2002. She left Brown in 2008 to assume her current posts as adjunct professor and the Chair of the playwriting department at Yale School of Drama, and the Playwright-in-Residence at Yale Repertory Theatre.

 Student work Series I circa 1989-1996 Anderson, Eliza 1 Scope and Contents note

The water principle

 Baley, Debbie (Brevort) 1 Scope and Contents note

Into the fire (2 copies); Signs of life (2 copies); Blue moon over Graceland (A new drama about Elvis Presley); Of men and mountains; Covered dishes; Blood (believed to be Debbie's)

 Barnwell, Michael 2 Scope and Contents note

Polynesian frostbite; The vision thing; Zero rest mass

 Bass, George 2 Scope and Contents note

Brer rabbit whole (A play-dream with music)

 Anonymous 2 Scope and Contents note

No title

 Bucci, David 2 Scope and Contents note

Kid carnivore

 Carla, Heidi 2 Scope and Contents note

Vesta Tilly in America; All in a day's idyll

 Carpenter, Bridget 2 Scope and Contents note

Typhoid mary; An evening with Tiny; The death of the father of psychoanalysis (and Anna); Holiday dinner, a family opera in nine movements

 Chafee, Claire 2 Scope and Contents note

Radio Play; Telegram from shore; a play written in 48 hours; Why we have a body

 Cronacher, Karen 3 Scope and Contents note

A breed apart; Monologue; Time in a bottle; Untitled

 Cruz, Nilo 3 Scope and Contents note

Dancing on her knees; A bicycle country; Graffiti; Night train to Bolina (2 copies)

 Danticat, Edwidge 3 Scope and Contents note

A starless dance

 Duane, Matt 3 Scope and Contents note

Book four

 Davis, Dennis 3 Scope and Contents note

Messenger Plays, the: Partitioned in three compact installments; Gaytyr Aides, the: a mangled reconstruction: the fixings for a full- service festival Dionysus; Messenger Plays, the: Partitioned in three compact installments; An adaptation of Sophocles' Oediups, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone

 DiNovelli, Donna 3 Scope and Contents note

Crushed tomatoes; Fandango; O's play

 DiNovelli, Donna 4 Scope and Contents note

Floating motifs in Providence; Route of wolves

 Faudree, Paja 4 Scope and Contents note

The twin circle express

 Field, Thalia 4 Scope and Contents note

Hey-Stop-That; Miscellaneous work; The celibate

 France, Juliann 4 Scope and Contents note

All fires are beautiful if you can't see what is burning; Trick of the tongue sold blind

 Gaige, Amity 4 Scope and Contents note

Cumulonimbus; Big Bang

 Gionfriddo, Gina 4 Scope and Contents note

Untitled and unfinished; Briar rose (2 copies)

 Glicker, Daniel 5 Scope and Contents note

Colonial grid on the Potatoland exit; Olden Days

 Greenberg, Paul 5 Scope and Contents note

The red cavalry rides

 Handel, Rob 5 Scope and Contents note

A serious of snakes; Cathy dressing; Charlatans; Iphigeneia in Poughkeepsie; Nightblindness (2 copies); Pierrot and Lunaire

 Hoverman, Matt 5 Scope and Contents note

Various

 Jones, Jake-ann 5 Scope and Contents note

Terminal Waiting; Death of a ho

 Jones, Melanie 5 Scope and Contents note

Revenge

 Kamvisseli, Eurudice 5 Scope and Contents note

The Killing Mirror

 Khoo, Aurorae 5 Scope and Contents note

Yellow, Jello, Baby

 Lapp, Sarah Jane 5 Scope and Contents note

Dona Gracia in three

 Leader, Jessica 5 Scope and Contents note

In the swamps of the absolute

 Lee, Edward Bok 5 Scope and Contents note

Asylum (2 copies); Leavetaker

 Lee, Edward Bok 6 Scope and Contents note

Leavetaker (3 drafts); Timmy and Laddie; Untitled

 Mackenzie-Childs, Heather 6 Scope and Contents note

Motherlands

 Mangeango, Azande 6 Scope and Contents note

Templedances of a cerry-flavored addicktion

 Margraff, Ruth 6 1994-1995 Scope and Contents note

Gat him to his place (1995); Wallpaper psalm (2 copies) (1994)

 Maynard, Suzanne 6 1996 Scope and Contents note

Utility play (2 drafts) (1996); Utility Plays, the : Play 1, Phone Play (3 drafts); Workshop work (1996 December 13); Birth of a moon (2 drafts); Bone weakness; Monologue (Buzz); Once upon a weekend; Postage due; The amazing doctor she! All's well that ends well; a play in three rings

 Mee, Charles L. 6 Scope and Contents note

Agamemnon 2.0

 Molloy, Honour Murphy, Bronagh 7 1989 Scope and Contents note

Maiden Voyages

 Molloy, Honour 7 1989, 1992 Scope and Contents note

Her mighty spirit rising (1992); Itinerants, Ballad for a Dublin Family (1989)

 Neulander, Jason 7 Scope and Contents note

The head death of the universe; Metabolic

 Olnek, Madeleine 7 1994 Scope and Contents note

Spookyworld (2 copies); Double awareness double awareness

 Panes, Michael 7 1987 Scope and Contents note

The egomaniac

 Picone, Craig 7 Scope and Contents note

In the tap kingdom; Old story; Talk; Untitled 1; Untitled 2; Untitled 3

 Rahman, Aishah 7 1994 Scope and Contents note

Anybody seen Marie Laveau?

 Rankin, Rick 7 1992-1994 Scope and Contents note

Clocks and autos; Portrait of Iowa (1992); The Book of Babe (2 copies) (1992); The Gay Deceivers (1993 April 01); Waltzing Medea (3rd draft) (1994 June 30)

 Rankin, Rick 8 1995 Scope and Contents note

Waltzing Medea (revised)

 Rattner, George 8 1989-1991 Scope and Contents note

Of blessed memory (1989 March 07); The enchanted hill (2 drafts) (1991 September 02); The plexishade project (1989 January 17)

 Regan, Julie 8 1994-1995 Scope and Contents note

Toys (2 drafts) (1994 November 29, 1995 March 15); Wind tunnel (1995 April 04)

 Rno, Sung 8 Scope and Contents note

Cleveland Raining

 Rogers, Alva 8 1996 Scope and Contents note

Belly (1996); if; Ride with the devil; Dog Jones and the bow wows; Cake; The bride who became frightened when she saw life open (2 copies)

 Ruhl, Sarah Dart 8 Scope and Contents note

Passion play

 Russell, John C. 8 1990, 1993 Scope and Contents note

Dante and Virgil go dancing (1993 May 31); Mother Clap's molly house (1990 August 03)

 Schulte, Gerhard 9 1989 Scope and Contents note

Tales of the city

 Sheinkin, Rachel 9 1989 Scope and Contents note

Someone's got to do it; The absent subject on the female protagonist in dramatic literature in a form that hopes to be visible (1989 April 24)

 Shin, Rob 9 1991 Scope and Contents note

The art of waiting

 Smith, Matthew 9 1992 Scope and Contents note

The adventures of the human cannonball; Deep freeze; 1992 September 15)

 Sobsey, A. 9 1992 Scope and Contents note

Land of trucks

 Taylor, Dominic 9 1992-1994 Scope and Contents note

Historic ode to hyphenated Americans, 1994; Personal History, 1996; Photo op, 1992

 Taylor, Dominic 10 1995 Scope and Contents note

Wedding dance

 Thompson, Daphne 10 Scope and Contents note

Escapades

 Tuan, Alice 10 1994, 1997 Scope and Contents note

Crown goose: a stripping play; Ikebana: a play of arrangement; Toward the next text, Three plays; Some Asians; mALL; Coastline; Soon Moon (The mere bits)

 Ursu, Anne 10 1995-1996 Scope and Contents note

Ernest and Alberta destabilize narrative (and other subtextual adventures (1996 April 26); Life with my attention deficit darling: a road trip movie (1995 November 07)

 Weaver, Michael 10 1996 Scope and Contents note

Candy lips and hallelujah; Elevator man

 Wild, Alison 10 Scope and Contents note

The queen of spades

 Wirth, Randall 11 Scope and Contents note

Light in August

 Youngblood, Shay 11 1991 Scope and Contents note

Communism killed my dog; Fifth Avenue Happy Cafe; Heroes; Movie music (2 copies); Shakin the mess outta misery (2 copies); Square blues (2 copies); Talking bones; To those we love

 Collection information

The collection is organized in one series: Series I. Student work, circa 1989-1996

Owing to Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) student records are restricted. Permission to access materials in this collection must be requested from the University Archivist.

Although Brown University has physical ownership of the collection and the materials contained therein, it does not claim literary rights. Researchers should note that compliance with copyright law is their responsibility. Researchers must determine the owners of the literary rights and obtain any necessary permissions from them.

Paula Vogel Office Files, OF-1UF-V1, Brown University Archives.

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NamesBrown University. Faculty. Subjects Creative writing (Higher education) Education Occupations

Types of MaterialsPlays (Document genre) RIAMCO Browsing Term Education