Adelphi University’s Performing Arts Center Presents: How I Learned to Drive, directed by Outer Critics Circle Award Nominee Markus Potter

Garden City, NY – As part of their Pulitzer Prize-winning season, the Department of Theatre at Adelphi University’s Performing Arts Center (AUPAC) is pleased to present the 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning play How I Learned to Drive, written by playwright Paula Vogel and directed by Adelphi Adjunct Professor Markus Potter.  This production features the students of the theatre department and will run from Tuesday, October 6 to Sunday, October 11 in the Black Box Theater located at AUPAC, 1 South Avenue, Garden City, NY.

The co-winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and co-winner of the 1998 Lucille Lortel Award for outstanding play, How I Learned to Drive is the devastating yet forgiving of survival seen through the troubling relationship between an older man and a young girl who learns the rules of the road and life from behind the wheel as a sufferer of childhood sexual abuse.

 Stephen Lopez and Mercedes Howes who are part of the Department of Theatre at Adelphi put together a piece from  the 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning play How I Learned to Drive, written by playwright Paula Vogel and directed by Adelphi Adjunct Professor Markus Potter.

Director Markus Potter’s producing and directing credits include Stalking the Bogeyman (off-Broadway-New York Times Critics pick, Outer Critics Award Nomination), The Velocity of Autumn (Broadway), among others.

Adelphi University Performing Arts Center (AUPAC) is one of Long Island’s premier cultural arts venues for entertainment of all kinds.Tickets are currently on sale and are priced at $20, with discounts available to seniors, students and alumni. For more information about all events at AUPAC and to purchase tickets, visit aupac.adelphi.edu. Information is available at The Lucia and Steven N. Fischer Box Office at (516) 877-4000 or boxoffice@adelphi.edu. Regular box office hours are Tuesday through Friday from 1-6 p.m. The box office is also open two hours before most scheduled performances.