Sarah Ruhl is a playwright, poet, essayist, and professor. She earned her MFA from Brown University and is best known for plays that feature poetic language, humor, and the exploration of love, loss, mythology, and the everyday. Her most notable works include “Eurydice” (2003), “The Clean House” (2005), “In the Next Room” (2010), “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” (2007), “Stage Kiss” (2014), and “Passion Play” (2003). They have been produced on and off Broadway, across the U.S., and internationally, and translated into more than a dozen languages. "Eurydice" was also adapted into an opera for the Metropolitan Opera. Ruhl received a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship in 2006, along with a Whiting Award, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, and many others. She has published essays, poetry, the memoir “Smile”, and “Letters from Max”. She now teaches playwriting at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and lives in Brooklyn with her family.
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