Letters from Max

A play based on the book by Max Ritvo and Sarah Ruhl

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Sarah Ruhl

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• World premiere at Signature Theater: Letters From Max premiered in 2023 at New York’s Signature Theater, where Ruhl is a Spotlight Resident. • Adapted from Celebrated Book: Letters from Max is adapted from the book of the same name, published in 2018 by Milkwood Editions. Kirkus called the book “a captivating celebration of life and love,” while Colorao Review called it “a portrait of a friendship over multiple years, as instructive to us as readers as Ritvo and Ruhl were and are to each other.” • One of the most produced playwrights in the world: Ruhl's work has premiered on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in many theaters around the world. • Awards and Honors for Sarah Ruhl: Two time Pulitzer Prize finalist, MacArthur Fellowship, 2016 Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, 2004 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 2016 Samuel French Award for Sustained Excellence in American Theatre, Whiting Writers’ Award, PEN/Laura Pels Award. • Yale School of Drama: Ruhl currently teaches playwriting at Yale.

Author Biography:

Sarah Ruhl's fifteen plays include the Pulitzer Prize finalists The Clean House and In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), also nominated for a Tony Award. Her awards include a MacArthur Fellowship, and her book of essays 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Eurydice, named one of the 25 best American plays of the past 25 years in 2018 by the New York Times, was developed into an opera with music by Matthew Aucoin, and performed at The Metropolitan Opera in 2021. Her most recent book, Smile: The Story of a Face, was published in 2021 by Simon & Schuster. Ruhl teaches at the Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn with her family.

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August 27th, 2024

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