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Sarah Ruhl (born
1974) is an
American playwright. She studied under
Paula Vogel at
Brown University (A.B., 1997; M.F.A., 2001), did graduate work at
Pembroke College, Oxford, and currently lives in New York.
Ruhl gained widespread recognition for her play
The Clean House, a romantic comedy about a physician who can't convince her depressed Brazilian maid to clean her house. It won the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2004. It was a
Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005.
Her play
Eurydice recently finished an extended run at New York's
Second Stage Theatre. Prior to that it had seen stagings at Yale Rep, Berkley Rep, and Circle X Theatre Company. Ruhl is also known for her
Passion Play cycle that opened at Washington's
Arena Stage in 2005. Other Plays include
Orlando,
Late: A Cowboy Song and
Demeter in the City.
In September, 2006, she won a
MacArthur Fellowship. In the announcement of that award, she was described this way: "Sarah Ruhl, 32, playwright, New York City. She is a playwright creating vivid and adventurous theatrical works that poignantly juxtapose the mundane aspects of daily life with mythic themes of love and war."
She was a founding editor of the literary magazine
One Factorial, along with
Mark Tardi and
Sawako Nakayasu.
On April 6, 2006 Sarah and her husband Tony had their first child, Anna Beatrice Ruhl Charuvastra.
Plays by Sarah Ruhl
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