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Sarah Ruhl

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Sarah Ruhl

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性別
女性
生誕
1974-01-24 (Wilmette, Illinois)
国籍
American
言語
English
居住地歴
Wilmette, Illinois → Brooklyn, New York

経歴

職業
playwright, poet, essayist, professor
活動期間
1995年〜
所属
David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, Signature Theatre Company, New Dramatists
所属団体
New Dramatists
影響を受けた人物
Paula Vogel
影響を与えた人物
ノミネート
Pulitzer Prize for Drama Finalist (2005, The Clean House; 2010, In the Next Room), Tony Award for Best Play Nomination (2010, In the Next Room)

学歴

Brown University
English
学位: BA
期間: 1993-1997
卒業年: 1997
国: United States
Studied under Paula Vogel
Brown University
Playwriting
学位: MFA
期間: 1999-2001
卒業年: 2001
国: United States
Pembroke College, Oxford
English
期間: 1年間(学部生時代)
国: United Kingdom
Year abroad during undergrad

受賞歴

Whiting Award
2003
主催: Whiting Foundation
結果: 受賞
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
2004
対象作品: The Clean House
結果: 受賞
MacArthur Fellowship
2006
主催: MacArthur Foundation
結果: 受賞
PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award
2008
主催: PEN America
結果: 受賞
Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award
2016
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Melancholy Play

2001年 Play

A comedy about melancholy

melancholylove

Eurydice

2003年 Play

Retelling of the Orpheus myth from Eurydice's perspective

deathlanguagefamily
映像化・舞台化
  • [Opera] Eurydice / Matthew Aucoin (composer) (2021)

The Clean House

2004年 Play

Story of a Brazilian housekeeper and a family of doctors

humordeathperfect joke

Dead Man's Cell Phone

2007年 Play

A woman answers a dead man's cell phone

technologyconnectiondeath

In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)

2009年 Play

Historical play about vibrator treatments for hysteria

sexualitymedicinewomen

全著作

  • Dog Play
  • Snowless
  • Melancholy Play
  • Eurydice
  • The Clean House
  • Passion Play
  • Dead Man's Cell Phone
  • In the Next Room
  • Stage Kiss
  • The Oldest Boy
  • For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday

翻案

  • Orlando (from Virginia Woolf)
  • Three Sisters (from Anton Chekhov)
  • Dear Elizabeth

作風・主題

文体
nonlinear realismjuxtaposition of mundane and mythicpoetic language
頻出モチーフ
lovedeathlanguagetransformation

健康

  • Bell's palsy
    双子出産後 (約2010年頃)
    Paralysis on one side of face, recounted in memoir Smile

評価・遺産

Recognized as a leading contemporary American playwright with MacArthur Fellowship; teaches at Yale.

資料所蔵先

  • Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

大衆文化への影響

引用

  • Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him.
    出典: Interview (2008年)
  • Cell phones, iPods, wireless computers will change people in ways we don't even understand.
    出典: The New Yorker (2008年)

豆知識

  • Father's death from cancer profoundly influenced her work
  • Trained at Piven Theatre Workshop from fourth grade
  • Attended Interlochen Arts Camp