Sarah Ruhls 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 Award). Her other plays include: For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday; Stage Kiss; Passion Play, a cycle; Dead Mans 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.