Sarah Ruhl

Sarah Ruhl (she/her) is a playwright, poet, and essayist. Her plays, including The Clean House, Eurydice, and In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play have been performed on and off Broadway and around the United States, as well as internationally. Ruhl is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award nominee, and her plays have been translated into fifteen languages. Her books include Smile: A Memoir (Simon & Schuster, 2022), Love Poems in Quarantine (Copper Canyon Press, 2022), 44 Poems for You (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), and Letters from Max (Milkweed Editions, 2019), with Max Ritvo. She is the winner of a MacArthur “Genius Grant,” Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, Whiting Writers’ Award, Lilly Award, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and a PENr/Laura Pels Foundation Award for a mid-career playwright. Her play Eurydice was performed as an opera at the Metropolitan Opera. She teaches at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.