Sarah Ruhl's fifteen plays include the Pulitzer Prizefinalists The Clean House and In the Next Room (or the vibratorplay), also nominated for a Tony Award. Her awards include a MacArthurFellowship, and her book of essays 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write wasa New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Eurydice, named one ofthe 25 best American plays of the past 25 years in 2018 by the New YorkTimes, was developed into an opera with music by Matthew Aucoin, andperformed at The Metropolitan Opera in 2021. Her most recent book, Smile:The Story of a Face, was published in 2021 by Simon & Schuster. Ruhlteaches at the Yale School of Drama, and lives in Brooklyn with her family.
'The most moving exploration of the theme of loss that the American
theater has produced'
*New York Times*
'Eurydice is a luminous retelling of the Orpheus myth from his
beloved wife's point of view. Watching it, we enter a singular,
surreal world, as lush and limpid as a dream—an anxiety dream of
love and loss—where both author and audience swim in the magical,
sometimes menacing, and always thrilling flow of the unconscious…
Ruhl's theatrical voice is reticent and daring, accurate and
outlandish'
*New Yorker*
'As I watched the final minutes of the Yale Rep's knockout
production of Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice, tears came with the suddenness
of grief… The heroine's arrival in Hades (by elevator, accompanied
by a stunning surge of rain) is memorable for technical reasons,
but it wouldn't mean a thing without this playwright's singular
voice… While Eurydice is certainly a play for our fearful times, it
is about every death, every loss, every paralyzing pang of grief…
Sarah Ruhl has looked into the heart of darkness and found an awful
beauty'
*New York Times*
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