For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday

World premiere at the Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in the spring of 2015, with a subsequent West Coast premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in the spring of 2016

New York premiere slotted for Playwrights Horizons, Fall 2017

The Clean House

One of the top ten most-produced playwrights of in the country 2011-2016

Ruhl received the 2016 Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award

The Clean House

In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)

Ruhl is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a PEN/Laura Pels Award and a MacArthur Fellowship

“"It's hard to imagine another play that deals so beautifully and delicately with growing up, growing old, dying, being dead, God, where does your consciousness go when you die, should we be terrified, are politics the heart of the matter or merely a sport, gender inequity, childhood, parental approval or the lack thereof, jockeying for position among siblings, religious belief, loss of religious belief, yearning for ritual even after the loss of belief, how fiction can seem more resonant and meaningful to us than fact. I was transported...but strangely felt as if I was transported deeply into my own consciousness. I only wish my mother was still alive and could have seen it!"”

"Having For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday to transport me back to my childhood now that 'no one is standing sentry between (me) and death' is a gift for which I lack adequate words to thank the playwright who wrote it for me."-- "Kathleen Kehoe Ruhl [the playwright's mother]"

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.

After their father dies, five siblings find themselves around the kitchen table of their childhood, pouring whiskey and sharing memories. The eldest, Ann, reminisces about her days playing Peter Pan at the local children's theater, and soon the five are transported back to Neverland. For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday is a fantastical exploration of the enduring bonds of family, the resistance to "growing up," and the inevitability of growing old.

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