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Lauren Ostrem: March 2021
Lauren Ostrem: March 2021
Lauren Ostrem: March 2021
March
2021
From 1950’s Washington DC
to Yale University
• Born November 16, 1951
• Parents divorced at the age of 13,
came out at 17
• Attended Bryn Mar, transferred to
Catholic University of America
graduated
• Went to Cornell for 3 years, did not
finish
• Worked for a year, came back to
Cornell to teach
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Teaching & Writing
• Taught at Cornell: 1979 – 1982.
• Became director of the MFA
program at Brown University:
1985
• Chair of Playwright department
of Yale University: 2012
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Plays Awards
• American College Theater Festival Award;
• Meg: Kennedy Center – 1977 Best New Play - Meg
• Apple Brown Betty - 1979 • OBIE Award; Best Play – Baltimore Waltz
• Baltimore Waltz – 1992 • Pulitzer Prize – How I Leaned to Drive
• Hot ‘N Throbbing - 1994 • Drama Desk Award – How I Learned to
• How I Learned to Drive – 1997 Drive
• The Mineola Twins - 1999 • Outter Critics Awards – How I Learned to
Drive
• The Long Christmas Ride Home -
2003 • New York Drama Critics Circle Award –
How I Learned to Drive
• Indecent - 2015
• OBIE Award – How I Learned to Drive
• If it’s a theater playwright award, she 4
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World Premiere: Yale Repertory Theatre – October 2, 2015 6
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Indecent is based on the true events of Sholem Asch’s
play, God of Vengeance, and the controversy that ensued
following its debut on Broadway.
”it's incontrovertible that Rebecca Taichman took a lot from Joe Chaikin's
production of God of Vengeance, both generally and with regard to specifics.” –
Stephen Fife 10
My Takeaway
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Paula Vogel writes characters in an endearing way. You are 11
sucked into a place that feels safe, and then she confronts you
with the lesson.