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World premiere at Signature Theater:Letters From Maxpremiered 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.

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""Letters From Max, a Ritual, Ruhl's warm and literary new play adapted from the book, is in no way a pity narrative. It's a theatrical act of remembrance and a sacrament of grief, but it's also a comedy."" --New York Times ""This epistolary play sends the message that a life cut short can call us to embrace our own lives and--as Max tells Sarah in a dream--to feel them swaying."" --Time Out New York ""In calling the play 'a ritual, ' Ruhl isn't trying to insulate herself, but rather to expose her own emotions in order to grapple with her grief: to state baldly that she is grieving, to offer up her own sorrow as an act of in the human rather than the divine, even as much of the play's content circles questions of faith and belief about the afterlife."" --Exeunt NYC ""Few contemporary playwrights utilize poetic language with the relish that Ruhl does, and Ritvo, it seems, was her match... In creating this grief-stricken send-off, Ruhl gets to chat with her friend once more and keep his mind alive for all of us to appreciate--and we are all the better for it."" --TheaterMania

"""Letters From Max, a Ritual, Ruhl's warm and literary new play adapted from the book, is in no way a pity narrative. It's a theatrical act of remembrance and a sacrament of grief, but it's also a comedy."" --New York Times ""This epistolary play sends the message that a life cut short can call us to embrace our own lives and--as Max tells Sarah in a dream--to feel them swaying."" --Time Out New York ""In calling the play 'a ritual, ' Ruhl isn't trying to insulate herself, but rather to expose her own emotions in order to grapple with her grief: to state baldly that she is grieving, to offer up her own sorrow as an act of in the human rather than the divine, even as much of the play's content circles questions of faith and belief about the afterlife."" --Exeunt NYC ""Few contemporary playwrights utilize poetic language with the relish that Ruhl does, and Ritvo, it seems, was her match... In creating this grief-stricken send-off, Ruhl gets to chat with her friend once more and keep his mind alive for all of us to appreciate--and we are all the better for it."" --TheaterMania"

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Sarah Ruhl's fifteen plays include the Pulitzer Prize finalistsThe Clean HouseandIn the Next Room (or the vibrator play),also nominated for a Tony Award. Her awards include a MacArthur Fellowship, and her book of essays100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Writewas aNew York TimesNotable Book of the Year.Eurydice,named one of the 25 best American plays of the past 25 years in 2018 by theNew 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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