Sarah Ruhl (Playwright) Plays include The Clean House (Pulitzer Prize Finalist, 2005; The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 2004); Passion Play, A Cycle (The Fourth Freedom Forum Playwriting Award from The Kennedy Center, a Helen Hayes Awards nomination for Best New Play); Dead Man’s Cell Phone; Melancholy Play; Eurydice; Orlando and Late: a cowboy song. Her plays have been produced at Lincoln Center Theater, Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, South Coast Rep., Yale Rep., Berkeley Rep., The Wilma Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Madison Rep. and the Piven Theatre, among others. Her plays have also been produced in London, Germany, Australia, Canada, and Israel, and have been translated into Polish, Russian, Spanish, Norwegian, Korean, and German. Originally from Chicago, Ms. Ruhl received her MFA. from Brown University where she studied with Paula Vogel. In 2003, she was the recipient of the Helen Merrill Emerging Playwrights Award and the Whiting Writers’ Award. She is a member of 13P and New Dramatists and recently won the MacArthur Fellowship.