Sarah Ruhl was born on January 24,1974 and is an American playwright, professor, and essayist.
16 Facts About Sarah Ruhl
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Sarah Ruhl currently serves on the faculty of the Yale School of Drama.
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Sarah Ruhl attended Interlochen Arts Camp for several summers in her youth.
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Sarah Ruhl had intended to become a poet, but after she studied under Paula Vogel at Brown University, she was persuaded to switch to playwriting.
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Sarah Ruhl spent a year of graduate work studying English literature at Pembroke College, Oxford.
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Sarah Ruhl is an active member of New Dramatists, a development space for new playwrights that is in partnership with the NYU Tisch Graduate Acting Program.
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Sarah Ruhl gained widespread recognition for her play The Clean House.
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Each Saturday, from the time Sarah Ruhl was five, Patrick took his daughters to the Walker Brothers Original Pancake House for breakfast and taught them a new word, along with its etymology.
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In 2020, Sarah Ruhl adapted the play as a libretto for a new opera composed by Matthew Aucoin.
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Sarah Ruhl began writing Passion Play at age 21, while studying with Paula Vogel at Brown University.
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Sarah Ruhl did not finish the play until eight years later, after Wendy C Goldberg and Arena's Molly Smith commissioned the third act.
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Sarah Ruhl taught a course at NYU on marriage and divorce and sometimes included In the Next Room on his syllabus.
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Sarah Ruhl was awarded the Residency 1 program by the Signature Theatre Company in 2019.
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In 2006, Sarah Ruhl received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship with a cash award of $500,000.
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Sarah Ruhl has been awarded the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award for 2016; the awardee is given a cash award of $200,000.
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Sarah Ruhl fills her intelligent and highly theatrical plays with striking oddities and playful humor.