Drama Book Shop to Livestream Conversation with INDECENT's Paula Vogel & Rebecca Taichman

The Drama Book Shop, now celebrating its 99th year, will welcome playwright Paula Vogel and director Rebecca Taichman, the creative forces behind Indecent, for a discussion about the play. The event will take place on Friday, June 10th at 5:00PM. It is free to the public. For those unable to attend, the Tony Award-winning Drama Book Shop will live-stream the conversation on their Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/dramabookshop) and on their Periscope channel @dramabookshop.

Indecent, created by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel (Vineyard's How I Learned To Drive and The Long Christmas Ride Home) and award-winning director Rebecca Taichman (Familiar, Stage Kiss), is a deeply moving new play with music, inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Sholem Asch's God of Vengeance - a play seen by some as a seminal work of Jewish culture, and by others as an act of traitorous libel. Indecent charts the history of an incendiary drama and the path of the artists who risked their careers and lives to perform it.

Paula Vogel is the Eugene O'Neill Professor (adjunct) of Playwriting at Yale School of Drama (serving as Chair of the Playwriting Department 2008-2012) and playwright-in-residence at the Yale Repertory Theatre, as well as an artistic associate at Long Wharf Theatre. Work in progress includes Rehearsing Vengeance with Rebecca Taichman, a co-commission for Yale Rep and Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Jitterbugging and the War Effort. Paula Vogel's play, How I Learned to Drive, received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Lortel Prize, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and New York Drama Critics Awards for Best Play, as well as winning her second OBIE. It has been produced all over the world. Other plays include The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Mineola Twins, The Baltimore Waltz, Hot 'N' Throbbing, Desdemona, And Baby Makes Seven, and The Oldest Profession. In 2004-05 she was the playwright in residence at The Signature Theatre in New York which produced three of her works. Her play A Civil War Christmas was produced at The Long Wharf Theatre in November 2008, directed by Tina Landau. It also was produced at Theatre Works in Palo Alto, CA and by the Huntington Theatre in Boston. Theatre Communications Group has published four books of her work: The Mammary Plays, The Baltimore Waltz and Other Plays, The Long Christmas Ride Home, and A Civil War Christmas. Ms. Vogel won the 2004 Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the OBIE for Best Play in 1992, the Rhode Island Pell Award in the Arts, the Hull-Warriner Award, The Laura Pels Award, the Pew Charitable Trust Senior Award, a Guggenheim, an AT&T New Plays Award, the Fund for New American Plays, the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center Fellowship, several National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the McKnight Fellowship, the Bunting Fellowship, and the Governor's Award for the Arts. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was recently awarded a Thirtini, a most coveted award, from 13P in New York. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, as well as Yaddo.

Rebecca Taichman directed the world premiere of Danai Gurira's play Familiar for Yale Repertory Theatre this winter. She most recently directed the world premiere of Sarah Ruhl's play The Oldest Boy for Lincoln Center Theatre in the fall of 2014. Recent productions include Stage Kiss by Sarah Ruhl at Playwrights Horizons and Time and the Conways by JB Priestley at the Old Globe. Recent theater and opera includes: Marie Antoinette (Soho Rep.), Luck of the Irish (LCT3), Milk Like Sugar (Playwrights Horizons), Rappacinni's Daughter (Gotham Opera), Orpheus (NYC Opera), Orlando (CSC), Dark Sisters (Nico Muhly & Stephen Karam; world premiere), The Scene (2econd Stage), and Menopausal Gentleman (Ohio Theater/world premiere).

The Drama Book Shop, a 2011 Tony Honoree for Excellence in Theatre, is located at 250 West 40th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues. Admission to the Friday, June 10th, 5:00PM discussion with Ms. Vogel and Ms. Taichman is free to the public. For more information on this and other events, please visit www.dramabookshop.com.