Sarah Ruhl is an award-winning playwright, poet, and essayist. Her plays include The Clean House (Pulitzer Prize finalist), In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play (Pulitzer Prize finalist, Tony award finalist for best play), Eurydice (named one of the best productions over the past 25 years by the New York Times.) Her plays have been translated into fourteen languages, and have been performed around the world, on Broadway, off-Broadway, and across the country. She has been the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant, a Whiting Award, a PEN award, and a Susan Smith Blackburn award. Her books include Letters from Max (with Max Ritvo), Smile, a memoir, 44 poems for you, 100 essays I don’t have time to write and Love Poems in Quarantine. Her play Eurydice has been made into an opera, performed at the Metropolitan opera, and she’s currently working on a musical with Elvis Costello. She has taught at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale for the past twelve years, and has also taught courses at Yale College in theater studies. She has had the honor of premiering five of her plays at Yale Repertory theater under James Bundy. She is currently working on a book called Lessons from My Teachers, portraits of her teachers from preschool to the present day, including portraits of the excellent students who have taught her so much at Yale. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
For more information, sarahruhlplaywright.com