Playwrights' Center's Director of Fellowships Lynde Rosario sits down with multiple-award-winning playwright and MacArthur-certified genius Sarah Ruhl for a conversation that is as electrifying as it is wide-ranging.
Topics include: collaborations, caregiving, perseverance, pandemics, politics, poetics, the epic and the domestic, finding a home in the arts, and the beautiful present of the theater as the key to its future.
If you’ve ever wished for a seat at the table with incredible artists in passionate discussion, this series is your seat.
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SARAH RUHL is an award-winning American playwright, author, essayist, and professor. Her plays include Eurydice; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2010); The Clean House (Pulitzer Prize finalist 2005, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2004); Passion Play (PEN American Award); Orlando; and Letters from Max (based on her book with poet Max Ritvo). Her plays have been produced on Broadway and across the country as well as internationally, and translated into fourteen languages. Her books include Smile: The Story of a Face, and 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award, a PEN Center Award for mid-career playwrights, a Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, and a MacArthur “genius award” Fellowship. She teaches at the Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn with her family.
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LYNDE ROSARIO (she/her/hers) is a Dramaturg and the Director of Fellowship Programs at Playwrights’ Center. She was also the President of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas from 2022-2024. Current and former affiliations include: National New Play Network, The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, The Latinx New Play Festival, The Playwrights Realm, Working Theater Company, Unicorn Theatre, TheatreLab, Curious Theatre Company, Denver Center for the Performing Arts Theatre Company, The Catamounts, Local Theater Company, Creede Repertory Theater, Athena Project, Letter of Marque Theater Company, and The Anthropologists.
