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JIM HARRIS
A young woman stands in blue light beside a figure lying on the road
Directing

Director · 2023

How I Learned to Drive

by Paula Vogel

Playwright
Paula Vogel
Role
Director
Produced by
Emporia State University Theatre
Dates
March 23–26, 2023
Venue
Ronald Q. Frederickson Theatre

A memory play told as a series of driving lessons.

The play

Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play, in which Li’l Bit looks back across her adolescence and her relationship with her uncle, structured as a sequence of driving lessons.

Content note: The play contains themes of sexual abuse.

Director’s note

To add · Director’s note

A few sentences in Jim’s voice: why this play, what the production was after, one decision in the room that shaped it.

Honors

  • Certificate of Merit in Direction, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival

Company

To add · Design team & cast

Scenic, lighting, costume and sound designers; stage manager; cast list; photographer.

Production video

Production photographs