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Sarah Ruh l is a playwright, poet, and essayist. Her plays includeIn the Next Room or the Vibrator Play(Pulitzer Prize finalist);The Clean House(Pulitzer Prize finalist, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize);Passion Play(PEN/Laura Pels Award);Letters from Max(based on the book of the same title, with Max Ritvo); andEurydice, named one of the best productions of the last twenty-five years by the New York Times, and made into an opera for The Metropolitan Opera. Her books includeSmile: A Memoir, 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write, andLove Poems in Quarantine. She is the recipient of a MacArthur ""Genius"" Grant. She currently teaches at the Geffen School of Drama at Yale University. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
A mischievous, sprightly alternative narrative to the patriarchal one handed down by American history books, by Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible, ' by the way men still talk about and treat women. -- San Francisco Chronicle Ruhl's cunningly constructed play is chockablock with political and cultural reference, laying bare mistakes and missteps made not only in our political and legal systems, but by the broader culture in terms of societal norms and the artistic reactions to them. -- Talkin' Broadway Bracing and beguiling... A wildly ambitious denunciation of The Crucible, with its sexualization of women and girls, Becky Nurse of Salem calls out the way women are taken to task for the ills of the world. Ruhl's shimmering insights gives this new work some truly bewitching moments. The play really comes to life in the witch's parlor as Becky risks it all for a scrap of hope and happiness. -- Mercury News / Bay Area News Group A wickedly dark comedy with sinister socio-political and economic implications. -- Broadway World
