SARAH RUHL’s plays include Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Helen Hayes’ Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical), The Clean House (Pulitzer Prize Finalist, 2005; The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 2004), Passion Play (The Fourth Freedom Forum Playwriting Award from The Kennedy Center, a Helen Hayes Awards nomination for best new play), Eurydice, Melancholy Play, Orlando, Demeter in the City and Late: a cowboy song. Her plays have been produced at Arena Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the Goodman Theatre, Lincoln Center Theatre, Madison Repertory Theatre, the Piven Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Wilma Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and Yale Repertory Theatre, among others. Her plays have also been produced in London, Germany, Australia, Canada and Israel, and have been translated into Polish, Russian, Spanish, Norwegian, Korean and German. Originally from Chicago, Ms. Ruhl received her M.F.A. from Brown University where she studied with Paula Vogel. In 2003, she received a Helen Merrill Emerging Playwrights Award and a Whiting Writers’ Award. She is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship. Ms. Ruhl is a member of 13P and New Dramatists.