It’s animated by Desiree Nasim and written byĭanielle Feder and Victoria Myers. Vogel’s previous plays include“Don Juan Comes Home From Iraq,” “The Mineola Twins,” “The Baltimore Waltz,” “Hot ‘N Throbbing,” “Desdemona,” and “The Oldest Profession.”Ĭheck out the video below. She and her “How I Learned to Drive” and “Indecent” producer Daryl Roth will be honored by the New Dramatists in May. Vogel won the Pulitzer in 1998 for “How I Learned to Drive,” a portrait of a woman in a sexually abusive relationship with her uncle. She emphasized the importance of “representing for women” “representing for playwrights of color.” “Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture,” Nottage said of her recent win. Her other plays include “Crumbs from the Table of Joy,” “Fabulation,” “Intimate Apparel,” and “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark.” “Sweat” previously won the Blackburn Prize in 2016. She won this year for “Sweat” and in 2009 for “Ruined,” which focuses on “ruined” women - rape survivors and sex workers - in civil war-torn Congo. Nottage is the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice. As The Interval’s video emphasizes, “Both plays are super relevant to what’s happening in the world today,” a fact which makes the playwrights’ longtime exclusion from the Great White Way feel even more baffling.

Vogel’s debut, “Indecent,” examines the controversial 1923 play “God of Vengeance,” which was closed by police due to its depiction of lesbianism. “Sweat,” Nottage’s Broadway debut, is about dissatisfaction, anger, and resentment among the working class, specifically among factory workers facing layoffs in Reading, Pennsylvania. And here’s the real heartbreaker: “None of the eight men with new plays on Broadway have won a Pulitzer.” “Lynn and Paula are only just making it to Broadway,” the video informs us. The video then highlights the theater world’s blatant gender disparity. Both women have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The animated infographic summarizes both women’s impressive resumes: Nottage attended Brown and Yale, her plays have been staged around the country, and she’s received a laundry list of awards, and Vogel is an American Theater Hall of Fame inductee, the recipient of multiple playwriting prizes, and has run MFA programs at Brown and Yale.

The two accomplished theater veterans are only just making their Broadway debuts in 2017. A new video from women’s theater website The Interval reminds us of this as it spotlights Lynn Nottage and Paula Vogel, the only women with new plays on Broadway this season. Hollywood isn’t the only industry with a woman problem.

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