"Satire is her oxygen. . . . In her new oddball comedy, Dead Man's Cell
Phone, Sarah Ruhl is forever vital in her lyrical and biting takes on
how we behave."--The Washington Post
"Ruhl's zany probe of the razor-thin line between life and death
delivers a fresh and humorous look at the times we live in."--Variety
"Sarah Ruhl is deliriously imaginative and fearless in her choice of
subject matter. She is an original."--Molly Smith, artistic director,
Arena Stage
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the
next table who has had enough. And a dead man--with a lot of loose ends.
So begins Dead Man's Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by
playwright Sarah Ruhl, recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Grant and
Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play The Clean House. A work about how
we memorialize the dead--and how that remembering changes us--it is the
odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about
morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically
obsessed world.
Sarah Ruhl's plays have been produced at theaters around the
country, including Lincoln Center Theater, the Goodman Theatre, Arena
Stage, South Coast Repertory, Yale Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory
Theatre, among others, and internationally. She is the recipient of the
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (for The Clean House, 2004), the Helen
Merrill Emerging Playwrights Award, and the Whiting Writers' Award. The
Clean House was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005. She is a member of
13P and New Dramatists.
