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The announcement of that award stated: “Sarah Ruhl, 32, playwright, New York City

A Review by Jon York

Sarah Ruhl is clearly a gifted playwright who tackles contemporary themes with a great ability to create in, she received a MacArthur Fellowship (nicknamed the Genius Grant) worth half a million dollars. Playwright creating vivid and adventurous theatrical works that poignantly juxtapose the mundane aspects of daily life with mythic themes of love and war.”

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Precocious as a child, she exhibited a flair for the theater at a very early age. When she was only 5, her mother, Kathy Kehoe Ruhl, an actress in Chicago and professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago, parked her at the theater while she rehearsed, and the ever-ambitious Sarah would take notes on the production. Читать далее