Paula Vogel's play, How I Learned to Drive, received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Lortel, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and New York Drama Critics Awards for Best Play, as well as winning her second OBIE. It has been produced all over the world. 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. In 2004-5 she was the playwright in residence at The Signature Theatre in New York which produced three of her works. Her new play, A Civil War Christmas is in development by Long Wharf Theatre and The Old Globe Theatre for 2008-9.Theatre Communications Group has published three books of her work, The Mammary Plays , The Baltimore Waltz and Other Plays and The Long Christmas Ride Home. Ms. Vogel won the 2004 Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the OBIE for Best Play in 1992, the Rhode Island Pell Award in the Arts, the Hull-Warriner Award, The Laura Pels 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, the Bunting Fellowship and the Governor's Award for the Arts. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition to stage work, Ms. Vogel has written several screenplays (On Common Ground for Showtime and an adaptation of How I Learned to Drive for Laura Ziskind Productions and HBO and others). Paula is the Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Creative Writing at Brown University, where she has taught playwriting and directed the MFA Playwriting program since 1984.