The 29th Annual William Inge Theatre Festival, the Official Theatre Festival of the State of Kansas, celebrates comedy, drama and music in four whirlwind days.
Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist and Yale School of Drama instructor Paula Vogel is the Honoree Playwright of the Inge Festival, April 21-24, produced by the William Inge Center for the Arts at Independence Community College, in Independence, Kansas.
Vogel will be present all four days of the Inge Festival. During a star-studded multi-media Tribute production on Saturday April 24, Vogel will accept the Inge Festival's annual Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre Award. Vogel will join the elite list of previously honored playwrights who have traveled to Independence to accept this honor, including Arthur Miller, August Wilson, Wendy Wasserstein, Stephen Sondheim, Neil Simon, and Edward Albee.
Vogel earned the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play "How I Learned to Drive." She is also the current Eugene O'Neill Chair of the Playwriting Department at Yale School of Drama, as well as the Playwright-in-Residence at the Yale Repertory Theatre.
"We are thrilled to host Paula Vogel, a person of extraordinary talent who is not only a renowned dramatist, but a gifted and generous instructor of young aspiring playwrights," said Peter Ellenstein, Inge Center Artistic Director. Learn More
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