Paula Vogel’s BARD AT THE GATE
Bard at the Gate offers a simple glance at plays that are ground-breaking: plays that were too ambitious, too quirky, and too smart to be contained. Strong scripts. Raw talent. New audiences. New Bards.
"The playwright Paula Vogel found herself at home on Cape Cod last spring, thinking that the coronavirus could have her name on it. If time was short, how did she want to spend it? The answer was producing. Since June, the Pulitzer Prize winner has used her splendidly cast online reading series, Bard at the Gate, to elevate overlooked plays by Eisa Davis, Kermit Frazier and others, all dealing with race or gender. Vogel is daring the theater: Make yourself better. Stage these scripts." - The New York Times
Bard at the Gate directly responds to the lack of representation of diverse voices within the American theatrical canon. This uniquely curated virtual reading series is designed to become a widely accessible platform for powerful, overlooked plays by BIPOC, women, LGBTQ, and disabled artists.
The plays in Season 1 of Bard at the Gate were chosen by Ms. Vogel from among the hundreds and hundreds of scripts she has read and/or mentored over four decades: works that have been overlooked and never produced, along with plays that deserve a wider audience.