Sarah Ruhl’s plays include the Pulitzer Prize finalists In the Next Room or the vibrator play (Tony Award nominee, Best Play) and The Clean House (Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), as well as Passion Play, a cycle; Dead Man’s Cell Phone; Dear Elizabeth; Eurydice; Melancholy Play; and Late: a cowboy song. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, a PEN/Laura Pels Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship.