Seventy-Five Seventy-Four Essays I Don't Have Time to Write

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"One of the country's brightest playwrights. . . . Ms. Ruhl's unmistakable voice is poetic and quirky, underpinned with serious feeling and even more serious intelligence."--"The New York Times" "Ruhl has a mind of literary elasticity . . . that confirms the emergence of a fresh and provocative voice that the theatre desperately needs."--"The Washington Post" Two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama playwright Sarah Ruhl offers up seventy-four reflections on the world of theater. Touching on everything from literary influences and privacy to swordfights, crickets, and umbrellas, Ruhl's short "essays" are thoughtful examinations of what plays were, are, and could be. A humorous, provocative, and personal glimpse into her unique mind, this delightful tome is an easy read that proves difficult to forget. Sarah Ruhl's plays include "In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)," "Passion Play," "The Clean House" (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn prize), "Dean Man's Cell Phone" (Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play), "Demeter in the City" (nominated for nine NAACP awards), "Eurydice," "Melancholy Play," "Late: a cowboy song," and "Orlando." She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a PEN/Laura Pels Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship, and is a three-time Tony Award nominee. She is the most produced female playwright over the past five years, and her plays have premiered on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in many theaters around the world.

Sarah Ruhl has written numerous award-winning plays, including The "Clean House"(Susan Smith Blackburn Award, 2004, Pulitzer Prize finalist, Pen Award), "Melancholy Play, Eurydice, Late: a cowboy song, Orlando, Demeter in the City"(NAACP Image Award nomination) and "Passion Play: a cycle in three parts" (Fourth Forum Freedom Award, Kennedy Center). Her plays have been performed at Lincoln Center Theater, Second Stage Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Yale Repertory Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Wilma Theater, Cornerstone Theater, Madison Repertory Theatre, Clubbed Thumb and the Piven Theatre Workshop, among other theatres across the country. Her plays have been translated into German, Polish, Korean, Russian and Spanish, and have been produced internationally in London, Canada, Germany, Latvia and Poland. Sarah received her MFA from Brown University and is originally from Chicago. She is the recipient of a Helen Merrill award, Whiting Writers' Award and a Macarthur Fellowship. She is a proud member of New Dramatists and 13P.