Augustana College
639 38th Street
Rock Island, IL 61201
United States
Free and open to the public.
Playwright, professor and essayist Sarah Ruhl (Letters from Max, 2019) will visit Augustana the last weekend in March. Her residency will include class visits, readings, a workshop and “An Evening with Sarah Ruhl” on Saturday. Last year Augustana presented Ruhl’s Pulitzer finalist play, “In the Next Room, or the vibrator play.” On Friday March 29th, Sarah Ruhl will read selections from some of her essays and answer questions in the Brunnet Theatre Center.
Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhl’s plays include In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Pulitzer Prize finalist, Tony Award nominee), and The Clean House (Pulitzer Prize finalist, winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), among many others. She is recipient of the MacArthur “genius” grant, and of, most recently, the 2016 Steinberg Prize. She is currently on the faculty of the Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn with her family.
Studded with poems and songs, this correspondence is a deeply moving portrait of a friendship, and a shimmering exploration of love, art, mortality, and joy.