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Sarah Ruhl
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American playwright, essayist, poet, and professor known for acclaimed plays and candid essays exploring theater, motherhood, and artistic life.
Biography
Sarah Ruhl (born January 24, 1974) is an American playwright, poet, professor, and essayist. Her notable plays include Melancholy Play, Eurydice, The Clean House, Dead Man's Cell Phone, and In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play); these works and others have been produced on and off Broadway and in the West End.
Ruhl has received a MacArthur Fellowship, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a Whiting Award, and the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award. She was twice a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama and received a Tony Award nomination. In 2020 she adapted Eurydice as a libretto for an opera at the Metropolitan Opera, and that recording was later nominated for a Grammy. Her nonfiction work includes Letters from Max (co-authored with Max Ritvo) and the memoir Smile. She is the Premiere Writer-in-Residence at Signature Theatre Company and has served on the Yale School of Drama playwriting faculty since 2015.
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Books by Sarah Ruhl
100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write
100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write gathers one hundred idiosyncratic, artful meditations on life and theater, mixing admonition, celebration, humor, and candid reflections on motherhood and the artist's life.