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Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhl is an American-born playwright. Her plays include The Clean House, Late: A Cowboy Love Song, Eurydice, and Dead Man's Cell Phone.

Her plays have been performed at Playwrights Horizons and Second Stage Theatre in New York, as well as at Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, Washingston's Arena Stage, and at the Piven Theatre Workshop in Chicago.

In 2003, Ruhl was the recipient of a Helen Merrill award and a Whiting Writers' award. Ruhl’s play The Clean House won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2004 and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005. In September 2006, Ruhl was named the winner of the MacArthur Fellowship. She is also the recipient of a 2008 PEN/Pels Award for Drama.






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