Sarah Ruhl
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Sarah Ruhl (born 1974) is an American playwright. She studied under Paula Vogel at Brown University and currently lives in New York.
Ruhl gained widespread recognition for her play The Clean House, a romantic comedy about a physician who cannot 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 is currently (as of October 2006) being produced by 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.
[edit] Plays by Sarah Ruhl
- Passion Play
- Eurydice
- Orlando
- Late: A Cowboy Song
- The Clean House
- Dead Man's Cellphone
- Demeter in the City
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