Sarah Ruhl, a distinguished American playwright, is the author of numerous plays, including In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) and The Clean House. Other works include The Oldest Boy; How to Transcend a Happy Marriage; a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando; the collection 44 Poems for You; and the memoir Smile: The Story of a Face (Simon & Schuster, 2021). Ruhl teaches at the Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn with her family.