Sarah Ruhl

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sarah Ruhl
Occupation	Playwright
Date Of Birth	Jan 24, 1974(1974-01-24)
Age	50
Birthplace	Wilmette
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Capricorn

Sarah Ruhl Biography

Sarah Ruhl is one of the most popular and richest Playwright who was born on January 24, 1974 in Wilmette, Illinois, United States. Sarah Ruhl (born January 24 1974) is an American playwright, teacher, and essayist. The most popular of her plays include Eurydice (2003), The Clean House (2004), and In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) (2009). She has been the winner of the MacArthur Fellowship and the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an exceptional American playwright in the mid-career. Her plays were shortlisted in the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. In 2020, she adapts her work Eurydice in the form of a libretto of Matthew Aucoin’s opera with the identical title.

Late The Late Cowboy Song was produced by Clubbed Thumb (New York City) in 2003.

Ruhl gained widespread recognition for her play The Clean House (2004). “The play takes place in a ‘metaphysical Connecticut’ where married doctors employ a Brazilian housekeeper who is more interested in coming up with the perfect joke than in cleaning. Trouble erupts when the husband falls in love with one of his cancer patients”. It won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2004 and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005.

She married Tony Charuvastra, a child psychiatrist, in 2005, after a seven- year courtship. He teaches a course at NYU that utilizes In the Next Room as a required reading. Ruhl and Charuvastra have three children, Anne and twins William and Hope.

The Lady with the Lap Dog and Anna Around the Neck (adapted from Anton Chekhov) were commissioned and staged in 2001 by The Piven Theatre Workshop in 2001. Both plays are stage adaptations from Anton Chekov short stories.

Sarah Ruhl Net Worth

Sarah Ruhl is one of the richest Playwright from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sarah Ruhl 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In the beginning, Ruhl intended to be a poet. But, when she began studying with Paula Vogel at Brown University She was convinced to pursue playwriting. It was her first production, The Dog Play, written in 1995 as part of her classes. In Brown University she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English (1997) and a Master in Fine Arts in Playwriting (2001). She also completed an entire year as a graduate student in English writing in Pembroke College, Oxford.

Orlando The show, which was adapted from the novel written by Virginia Woolf, was commissioned by the Piven Theatre Workshop and premiered in Evanston, Illinois in May 1998. It starred Justine Scarpa in the role of Orlando. The director Joyce Piven later helmed the production again during March of 2003 The Actors’ Group in Hollywood, California, with Polly Noonan taking on the lead role. The production was off Broadway by The Classic Stage Company in 2010. In the year 2015, Orlando premiered for the Sydney Theatre Company at the Sydney Opera House with actress Jacqueline McKenzie playing the lead.

Her play Eurydice (2004) was produced Off-Broadway at the Second Stage Theatre in June to July 2007. Prior to that it had been staged at Yale Rep (2006), Berkeley Rep (2004), Georgetown University, and Circle X Theatre. She wrote Eurydice in honor of her father, who died in 1994 of cancer, and as a way to “have a few more conversations with him.” The play explores the use and understanding of language, an interest which she shared with her father:

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Her play Dead Man’s Cell Phone (2007) premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in 2008 starring Mary-Louise Parker. Its world premiere was at Washington D.C.’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in 2007. It was subsequently produced by the Steppenwolf Theatre in 2008 and at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2009. The play had its UK premiere at The Arches (Glasgow) in June

2011. The play explores technology and the disconnect people are experiencing in the digital age:

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Sarah Ranked on the list of most popular Playwright. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Sarah Ruhl celebrates birthday on January 24 of every year.

But if Ruhl’s demeanor is unassuming, her plays are bold. Her nonlinear form of realism—full of astonishments, surprises, and mysteries—is low on exposition and psychology. “I try to interpret how people subjectively experience life,” she has said. “Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays, in a way, are very old-fashioned. They’re pre- Freudian in the sense that the Greeks and Shakespeare worked with similar assumptions. Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.”

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Is Sarah Ruhl married?

Sarah Ruhl
Spouse(s)| Tony Charuvastra ​ ( m. 2005)​
Children| 3

Why is Sarah Ruhl important?

Sarah Ruhl is an author, poet and playwright. Twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Award Fellowship for Theater and Performing Arts in 2006, Ruhl attended Brown University, where she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts.

Who is Sarah Ruhl?

Sarah Ruhl is a playwright, essayist and poet. She is a MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and a Tony Award nominee. Her book of essays, 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write, was published by FSG and named a notable book by The New York Times.

Can Bell's Palsy be cured after 10 years?

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