Sarah Ruhl (Signature Spotlight Residency)  is a playwright, essayist and poet. Her plays include In the Next Room, or the vibrator play, The Clean House, Passion Play, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Melancholy Play; For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday, The Oldest Boy, Stage Kiss, Dear Elizabeth, Eurydice, Orlando, Late: a cowboy song, and a translation of Three Sisters. She has been a two-time Pulitzer prize finalist and a Tony award nominee. Her plays have been produced on and off-Broadway, around the country, and internationally where they have been translated into over fifteen languages. Recent: Becky Nurse of Salem premiered at Lincoln Center, 2022. Her collection of essays 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2014. She is currently on the faculty of the Yale School of Drama. 

SPOTLIGHT RESIDENCY

An intensive residency for mid-career and established playwrights, amplifying artists’ voices by producing a series of their work, previously debuted or new, as three Signature shows.

This groundbreaking program offers a writer unprecedented freedom and support, including complete engagement in the artistic process, and gives the audience the rich, in-depth experience of an accomplished artist's body of work. Established more than 20 years ago (formerly Residency 1) as the inaugural residency of Signature Theatre, the program produces a series of plays from the body of work of one writer.