Wednesday, April 1, 2009
11 a.m.
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor
South Campus

Sarah Ruhl’s plays include The Clean House (Susan Smith Blackburn Award, 2004, Pulitzer Prize finalist, Pen Award), Melancholy Play, Eurydice, Late: a cowboy song, Orlando, Demeter in the City (NAACP image award nomination), Passion Play (Fourth forum freedom award, Kennedy Center) and Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Helen Hayes Award). Her plays have been performed at Lincoln Center Theater, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, the Goodman Theater, Yale Repertory Theater, Woolly Mammoth, Berkeley Repertory Theater, the Wilma, Cornerstone Theater, Madison Repertory Theater, Clubbed Thumb, and the Piven Theatre Workshop, among other theaters across the country. Her plays have been translated into German, Polish, Korean, Russian and Spanish, and have been produced internationally in London, Canada, Germany, Latvia, and Poland.

Ms. Ruhl received an M.F.A. from Brown University, and she is originally from Chicago. She is the recipient of a Helen Merrill award, Whiting Writers’ Award, PEN/Laura Pels award, and a Macarthur Fellowship. She is a proud member of New Dramatists and 13P.