Sarah Ruhl

Sarah has written numerous award-winning plays including Eurydice, which made its West Coast premiere at Berkeley Rep in 2005, and In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), which was commissioned by Berkeley Rep, premiered there in 2009 and earned a Tony nomination for Best Play when it reached Broadway. Sarah’s other scripts include The Clean House, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Demeter in the City, Late: a cowboy song, Melancholy Play, Orlando, Passion Play: a cycle and Stage Kiss. She is the winner of a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, as well as a Fourth Forum Freedom Award, a Helen Hayes Award, the Helen Merrill Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award and nominations for the NAACP Image Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her plays have been performed at theatres across the country, including Arena Stage, Clubbed Thumb, Cornerstone Theater, the Goodman, Lincoln Center Theater, Madison Repertory Theater, the Piven Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, the Wilma Theater, Woolly Mammoth and Yale Rep. These scripts have also been produced internationally and translated into Arabic, German, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian and Spanish. A member of New Dramatists and 13P, Sarah received her MFA from Brown University, where she studied with renowned playwright Paula Vogel.