in audiences of all ages with its emotionally vivid language [...] Sarah Ruhl is unique. She fills her intelligent and highly theatrical plays with striking oddities and playful humor. Sarah is a prolific playwright of great distinction. 2003 Whiting Award 2004 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for The Clean House 2005 Pulitzer Prize, Finalist for The Clean House 2006 MacArthur Fellowship 2008 Helen Hayes Award for Dead Man's Cell Phone 2008 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award 2010 Lilly Award 2010 Tony Award, Nomination for Best Play for In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) 2010 Pulitzer Prize, Finalist for In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) 2016 Samuel French Award, for Sustained Excellence in American Theatre. Plays Original plays Melancholy Play (2001) Virtual Meditations#1 (2002) Passion Play (2003 and 2004) Eurydice (2003) Late: A Cowboy Song (2003) The Clean House (2004) Demeter in the City (2006) Dead Man's Cell Phone (2007) In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) (2009) Stage Kiss (2011) Two Conversations Overheard on Airplanes [short] (2013) The Oldest Boy (2014) Scenes from Court Life, or The Whipping Boy and His Prince (2016) How to Transcend a Happy Marriage (2017) For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday (2017) Becky Nurse of Salem (2019) Letters From Max (2023) Adaptations Lady with the Lap Dog, and Anna around the Neck (adapted from Anton Chekhov) (2001) Orlando (adapted from Virginia Woolf) (2003) Three Sisters (adapted from Anton Chekhov, Yale Repertory Theatre, 2011) Dear Elizabeth (2012) - (Adapted from Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop) Other works Letters from Max: A Book of Friendship, (co-authored with Max Ritvo), Milkweed Editions (2018) Eurydice (libretto), opera, (composer, Matthew Aucoin), (2019) 44 Poems for You, Copper Canyon Press, (2020) Smile: The Story of a Face, Simon & Schuster, (2021) References External links Profile and Production History at The Whiting Foundation Sarah Ruhl at Pen American Center Beyond Electricity, Toward Female Emancipation, New York Times - review of In the Next Room Sarah Ruhl Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Sarah Ruhl performs onstage at Joe's Pub for House of SpeakEasy's "Seriously Entertaining" Cabaret 1974 births 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights 21st-century American women writers Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford American opera librettists American women dramatists and playwrights Brown University alumni Living people MacArthur Fellows People from Wilmette, Illinois Wesleyan