The play premiered in April 1988 at Theatre Network in Edmonton, Canada and 25th Street Theatre in Saskatoon, Canada, directed by Tom Bentley-Fisher. Her play The Oldest Profession was first read in February 1981 at the Hudson Guild, New York City and directed by Gordon Edelstein. Other notable plays include Desdemona, A Play About A Handkerchief (1993), The Oldest Profession (1981), And Baby Makes Seven (1984), Hot 'N Throbbing (1994), and The Mineola Twins (1996). She is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning play How I Learned to Drive (1997). CareerĪ productive playwright since the late 1970s, Vogel first came to national prominence with her AIDS-related seriocomedy The Baltimore Waltz, which won the Obie Award for Best Play in 1992.
She attended Bryn Mawr College from 1969 to 19 to 1972, and is a graduate of The Catholic University of America (BA, 1974) and Cornell University (MA, 1976 PhD, 2016). Her father was Jewish, whereas her mother was Roman Catholic. Vogel was born in Washington, D.C., to Donald Stephen Vogel, an advertising executive, and Phyllis Rita (Bremerman), a secretary for the United States Postal Service Training and Development Center.
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