Paula Vogel Playwriting Bootcamp

Over the weekend of January 15 and 16, 2011, Paula Vogel, joined by Young Plawrights alumna, Tony Award nominee and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Quiara Alegría Hudes, engaged a group of students, playwrights and theatre artists from across Philadelphia in conversations on playwriting form, the current state of theater and the craft of writing. The participants engaged in a number of collective and individual writing challenges.

Paula Vogel is among America’s most distinguished playwrights, having been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her 1997 play How I Learned to Drive, and is perhaps its most renowned teacher of playwriting. Currently, Ms. Vogel is the Eugene O’Neill Professor of Playwriting and Playwriting Chair at the Yale School of Drama.

“I want to proselytize that everyone is a playwright,” says Ms. Vogel.

To learn more about the Bootcamp, read the Philadelphia Inquirer article HERE.

Charlie Gilbert, Blanka Zizka, Michael Hollinger and Ed Shockley

PYP winning student playwright Lyn Nguyen chats with Quiara

Thelma Reese, Jessica Rodriguez, A. Taylor Williams

Winning student playwright and member of PYP Youth Council Haley Gordon

Amber Emory, Teaching Artist Kate McGrath and student playwright Kris McCormick

BJ Tindal, winning student playwright and member of our Youth Council

Blanka Zizka, Artistic Director of The Wilma Theater, and Amy Feinberg

Annie Halliday works on a prompt during the lunch break.

Amber Emory, a junior Theatre major at Temple University

PYP winning student playwright and Youth Council member Kris McCormick

Michael Hollinger, Ed Shockley, Jamie Brunson

PYP Executive Director Glen Knapp chats with Paula Vogel and A. Taylor Williams

Gabriel Bloomfield, Mindy Early, Jan Michener, Howie Shapiro, G. Lloyd Morris

Quiara Alegria Hudes and UArts student Annie Such listen to Paula Vogel

Haley Gordon chats with Quiara Alegria Hudes

Teaching Artist James Ijames works on a prompt

Quiara Alegria Hudes and winning student playwright BJ Tindal

Warren Hoffman, Director of Arts and Cultural Programming for the Gershman Y

Winning student playwrights Haley Gordon and Lyn Nguyen

Jen Childs, Artistic Director of 1812 Productions

Pete Pryor, co-founder of 1812 Productions

Teaching Artist Jan Michener listens to Paula Vogel

PYP winning student playwright Kris McCormick chats with David Bradley

Paula Vogel chats with Teaching Artist Jamie Brunson

Teaching Artists Jan Michener and PYP alumnus Gabriel Bloomfield

Paula Vogel, Dr. Amy Hodgdon, Quiara Alegria Hudes and Lyn Nguyen

Pete Pryor, co-founder of 1812 Productions, and Lyn Nguyen

PYP alumna and Board Member Quiara Alegria Hudes

Paula Vogel Playwriting Bootcamp

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