Whiting Awards
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Edition 19 (2003) Winner
Sarah Ruhl
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Sarah Ruhl
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1974-01-24 （Wilmette, Illinois）
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Wilmette, Illinois → Brooklyn, New York
Career
- Occupations
- playwright, poet, essayist, professor
- Active Years
- 1995-
- Affiliations
- David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, Signature Theatre Company, New Dramatists
- Memberships
- New Dramatists
- Influenced By
- Paula Vogel
- Influenced
- Nominations
- 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)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown University | — | English | BA | 1993-1997 | United States |
| Brown University | — | Playwriting | MFA | 1999-2001 | United States |
| Pembroke College, Oxford | — | English | — | 1年間（学部生時代） | United Kingdom |
Brown University
English
Degree:
BA
Period:
1993-1997
Year of Graduation:
1997
Country:
United States
Studied under Paula Vogel
Brown University
Playwriting
Degree:
MFA
Period:
1999-2001
Year of Graduation:
2001
Country:
United States
Pembroke College, Oxford
English
Period:
1年間（学部生時代）
Country:
United Kingdom
Year abroad during undergrad
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Whiting Award | — | — | Whiting Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2004 | Susan Smith Blackburn Prize | The Clean House | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2006 | MacArthur Fellowship | — | — | MacArthur Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2008 | PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award | — | — | PEN America | 受賞 |
| 2016 | Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award | — | — | — | 受賞 |
Whiting Award
2003
Organization:
Whiting Foundation
Result:
受賞
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
2004
Work:
The Clean House
Result:
受賞
MacArthur Fellowship
2006
Organization:
MacArthur Foundation
Result:
受賞
PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award
2008
Organization:
PEN America
Result:
受賞
Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award
2016
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Melancholy Play
2001 PlayA comedy about melancholy
melancholylove
Eurydice
2003 PlayRetelling of the Orpheus myth from Eurydice's perspective
deathlanguagefamily
Adaptations
- [Opera] Eurydice / Matthew Aucoin (composer) (2021)
The Clean House
2004 PlayStory of a Brazilian housekeeper and a family of doctors
humordeathperfect joke
Dead Man's Cell Phone
2007 PlayA woman answers a dead man's cell phone
technologyconnectiondeath
In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)
2009 PlayHistorical play about vibrator treatments for hysteria
sexualitymedicinewomen
Bibliography
- 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
Adaptations
- Orlando (from Virginia Woolf)
- Three Sisters (from Anton Chekhov)
- Dear Elizabeth
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- nonlinear realismjuxtaposition of mundane and mythicpoetic language
- Recurring Motifs
- lovedeathlanguagetransformation
Health
-
Bell's palsy双子出産後 (約2010年頃)Paralysis on one side of face, recounted in memoir Smile
Legacy
Recognized as a leading contemporary American playwright with MacArthur Fellowship; teaches at Yale.
Archives
- Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
In Popular Culture
Quotes
-
Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him.
Source: Interview (2008) -
Cell phones, iPods, wireless computers will change people in ways we don't even understand.
Source: The New Yorker (2008)
Trivia
- Father's death from cancer profoundly influenced her work
- Trained at Piven Theatre Workshop from fourth grade
- Attended Interlochen Arts Camp