Sarah Ruhl

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Sarah Ruhl (born 1974) is an American playwright. She studied under Paula Vogel at Brown University and currently lives in New York. On April 6, 2006 Sarah and her husband Tony had their first baby, a girl named Anna Beatrice Ruhl Charuvastra.

Ruhl gained widespread recognition for her play The Clean House, a romantic comedy about a physician who cannot convince her depressed Brazilian maid to clean her house. It won the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2004. It was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005.

Ruhl is also known for her Passion Play cycle that opened at Washington's Arena Stage in 2005.

Other Plays include Eurydice, Orlando, Late: A Cowboy Song and Demeter in the City.

In September, 2006, she won a MacArthur Fellowship. Here is how she was described in the announcement: "Sarah Ruhl, 32, playwright, New York City. She is a playwright creating vivid and adventurous theatrical works that poignantly juxtapose the mundane aspects of daily life with mythic themes of love and war."

- Eurydice is currently being produced by Circle X Theatre Company.