Attention, aspiring playwrights: You have a chance to learn the tools of the trade from Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Paula Vogel. According to BroadwayWorld, the “Indecent” scribe will be offering one of her playwriting Boot Camps next Monday, May 22 at the Vineyard Theatre in New York. Thirty members of the public will be selected on a first-come, first-served basis, and registration begins at 12pm EST tomorrow.
The Boot Camp will see Vogel “lead a discussion and writing exercises that result in each participant having written a ‘short play’” by the end of the session. Previous Boot Camps have explored “a range of topics from the challenges of facing a blank page to the frequently expressed fear, ‘But I’m not a writer,’” BroadwayWorld details.
Vogel has been hosting Boot Camps domestically and abroad since 1984. She has instructed veterans, women in maximum security prisons, theater subscribers, board members, students and teachers, playwrights, designers, and graphic artists.
Her most recent play, “Indecent,” is directed by Rebecca Taichman and examines the controversial 1923 play “God of Vengeance,” which was closed by police due to its depiction of lesbianism. The play opened at the Vineyard Theatre last May and went on to Broadway in April 2017, marking Vogel’s Broadway debut. “Indecent” is nominated for Best Play at this year’s Tony Awards.
Vogel took home the Pulitzer for Drama in 1998 for “How I Learned to Drive,” a portrait of a woman in a sexually abusive relationship with her uncle. She and her “How I Learned to Drive” and “Indecent” producer Daryl Roth will be honored with the New Dramatists’ Distinguished Achievement Award at a luncheon May 16.
To register for Vogel’s Boot Camp, email an RSVP to Indecentbootcamp@gmail.com at 12pm EST tomorrow, May 16. You will receive a confirmation email if you are one of the first 30 people to register. For more details, visit BroadwayWorld or Playbill.