A Note About the Author

Sarah Ruhl’s plays include In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Pulitzer Prize finalist; Tony Award nominee for best new play); The Clean House (Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2005; winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize); Passion Play: a cycle (PEN American Award); Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Helen Hayes Award); and, most recently, Stage Kiss and Dear Elizabeth.

Her many plays have been produced on Broadway, off-Broadway, regionally throughout the country, and internationally. They have been translated into more than fifteen languages, including Polish, Russian, Korean, and Arabic.

Originally from Chicago, Ruhl received her M.F.A. from Brown University, where she studied with Paula Vogel. Ruhl has since been the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Helen Merrill Emerging Playwrights Award, the Whiting Writers’ Award, the PEN American Center Award for a mid-career playwright, the Feminist Press’s Forty Under Forty Award, and the 2010 Lilly Award. She is currently on the faculty at Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn with her family.