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Sarah Ruhl Plays (in alphabetical order)

THE CLEAN HOUSE

DEAD MAN'S CELL PHONE

DEAR ELIZABETH

DEMETER IN THE CITY

EURYDICE

IN THE NEXT ROOM, OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY

LATE, A COWBOY SONG

MELANCHOLY PLAY

MELANCHOLY PLAY: a chamber musical

THE OLDEST BOY

ORLANDO (adapted from the original by Virginia Woolf)

PASSION PLAY

STAGE KISS

THREE SISTERS (Translated from the original by Anton Chekhov)

Timeline for Sarah Ruhl

• • Born in Wilmette, Illinois
• • Starts university at Brown University, Rhode Island
  • Studied English literature with the intention of becoming a poet
  • Father, Patrick Ruhl, passes away
• • Wrote her first play, The Dog Play, in Paula Vogel’s class
• • Studies English literature at Pembroke College, Oxford

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Sarah Ruhl




BIO

Sarah Ruhl is an American playwright, essayist, and poet known for her unique and poetic style of writing. She was born on January 24, , in Wilmette, Illinois, and grew up in a family of artists and writers. Ruhl attended Brown University, where she studied beneath Paula Vogel and earned her MFA in playwriting.



Ruhl's plays often explore themes of love, loss, and the human experience. Her first play, "The Dog Play," was produced in at the Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre. Her breakthrough play, "The Clean House," premiered at the Yale Repertory Theatre in and went on to receive the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and a Pulitzer Prize nomination.
Ruhl's other notable plays include "Eurydice," a retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, which premiered at the Madison Repertory Theatre in ; "In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)," a comedy about the invention of the vibrator, which premiered at the Berke

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The Short Story

Sarah Ruhl is an award-winning American playwright, author, essayist, and professor. Her plays include The Oldest Boy, Dear Elizabeth, Stage Kiss, In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Pulitzer Prize finalist, ); The Clean House (Pulitzer Prize finalist, ; Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, ); Passion Play (Pen American Award, Fourth Freedom Forum Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center); Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play); Melancholy Play;Demeter in the City (nine NAACP Image Award nominations); Scenes From Court Life; How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday; Eurydice; Orlando; and Late: a cowboy song. Her plays have been produced on Broadway and across the country as well as internationally, and translated into fourteen languages. Originally from Chicago, Ms. Ruhl received her M.F.A. from Brown University, where she studied with Paula Vogel. She is the recipient of a Helen Merrill Emerging Playwrights Award