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56-579: In 2018, Letters from Max: A Book of Friendship , co-authored by Max Ritvo , was published by Milkweed Editions. Her most recent play, Becky Nurse of Salem (2019) premiered at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Her memoir Smile was listed as one of Time magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2021. She currently serves on the faculty of the Yale School of Drama . Ruhl was born in Wilmette , Illinois . Her mother, Kathleen Ruhl, studied theater at Smith College and earned

112-817: A 'metaphysical Connecticut' where married doctors employ a Brazilian housekeeper who is more interested in coming up with the perfect joke than in cleaning. Trouble erupts when the husband falls in love with one of his cancer patients". It won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2004 and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005. Eurydice (2004) was produced Off-Broadway at the Second Stage Theatre in June to July 2007. Prior to that it had been staged at Yale Rep (2006), Berkeley Rep (2004), Georgetown University, and Circle X Theatre . She wrote Eurydice in honor of her father, who died in 1994 of cancer, and as

168-631: A Ph.D. candidate in psychology at Princeton University . Glück officiated the ceremony. Ritvo was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma at age 16 and died from the disease at his home in Los Angeles on August 23, 2016. His survivors include his wife Victoria; his father Edward Ritvo , a psychiatrist and researcher; his mother Riva Ariella Ritvo-Slifka, an autism expert and assistant clinical professor at Yale Child Study Center; and his three siblings, Victoria Black, Skye Oryx, and David Slifka. The investor and philanthropist Alan B. Slifka , who died in 2011,

224-638: A Ph.D. in Language, Literacy, and Rhetoric from the University of Illinois and became an English teacher, as well as an actress and a theatre director. Her father, Patrick Ruhl, became a marketer of toys, with an appreciation for literature and music. Her older sister, Kate, is a psychiatrist. Beginning in the fourth grade, Ruhl received dramatic training at the Piven Theatre Workshop , in Evanston, Illinois. On

280-530: A UK premiere at The Arches (Glasgow) in June 2011. The play explores technology and the disconnect people are experiencing in the digital age: "Cell phones, iPods, wireless computers will change people in ways we don't even understand," Ruhl stated. "We're less connected to the present. No one is where they are. There's absolutely no reason to talk to a stranger anymore—you connect to people you already know. But how well do you know them? Because you never see them—you just talk to them. I find that terrifying." In

336-420: A chicken dies so that my mom may live"). Orr also quoted, then commented on the end of Ritvo's poem, "The Hanging Gardens": This is very fine, and if it acquires a sheen of sentiment because of what it suggests will never emerge — that is, more poems from Ritvo — this doesn’t change the fact that a reader knowing nothing of poetry or this author might find it worth rereading. This is the life poetry leads beyond

392-435: A fearless and playful heart, and a thrilling ear". Literary critic Helen Vendler reviewed his work and likened him to Keats . She wrote: Ritvo had the luck to study at Yale with Louise Glück and at Columbia with Lucie Brock-Broido, and to attract, before his death, many admirers of his ecstatic originality. Although he is inimitable, his example is there for young poets wanting to forsake simple transcriptive dailiness for

448-503: A million-dollar enterprise. The play then moved to Sydney , Australia and premiered for the Sydney Theatre Company with Jacqueline McKenzie in the title role. The production was directed by Pamela Rabe . In September 2006, she received a MacArthur Fellowship . The announcement of that award stated: "Sarah Ruhl, 32, playwright, New York City. Playwright creating vivid and adventurous theatrical works that poignantly juxtapose

504-677: A poet, but after she studied under Paula Vogel at Brown University , she was persuaded to switch to playwriting. Her first play was The Dog Play, written in 1995 for one of Vogel's classes. She graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts in English (1997), with her undergraduate work including a year spent at Pembroke College, Oxford . She worked a variety of jobs for the next two years, including teaching arts education in public schools, before returning to Brown for her Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting (2001). Sarah Ruhl currently teaches at

560-458: A pool of self-skepticism and then emerged shining, shockingly clean..." While noting that Ritvo "seems to have written most of this book with the clarity, the near equanimity, the distance from ordinary reversals and struggles, of much older poets who know that they are dying," Burt also writes, "But mortality is rarely his only subject: shyness, gratitude, and erotic attachment are as important as death itself." In 2017, Milkweed Editions announced

616-530: A way to "have a few more conversations with him." The play explores the use and understanding of language, an interest which she shared with her father: Each Saturday, from the time Ruhl was five, Patrick took his daughters to the Walker Brothers Original Pancake House for breakfast and taught them a new word, along with its etymology. (The language lesson and some of Patrick's words—"ostracize," "peripatetic," "defunct"—are memorialized in

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672-498: A way, are very old-fashioned. They're pre-Freudian in the sense that the Greeks and Shakespeare worked with similar assumptions. Catharsis isn't a wound being excavated from childhood." In a discussion with Paula Vogel for BOMB Magazine , Ruhl described the psychology of her plays as "putting things up against Freud ... it's a more medieval sensibility of the humors, melancholia , black bile , and transformation." Rather than "connect

728-646: A week, playing the title role of Hedwig for a total of eight performances in Los Angeles and San Francisco, making her the first actor to play both roles in the same production. She played the roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles alongside Glee star Darren Criss . Following her run in Hedwig and the Angry Inch , Hall toured North America alongside Josh Groban on his "Stages" tour. On September 28, 2015, Hall released her first solo album, Sin & Salvation: Live At

784-527: Is actually a stage name taken seven generations back that became a family name. Hall said that it was one of the reasons why she was able to let go of the Carvajal name because it was a stage name, and it felt like her ancestors would agree with her name change. In December 2018, she announced her engagement to Jonathan Stein. They married on May 27, 2019. Hall made her Broadway debut in 1999 in Cats , taking over

840-488: Is composed, quite simply, of candor, of splendor, and of abandon." Louise Glück wrote of his first published collection that it was "one of the most original and ambitious first books in my experience... marked by intellectual bravado and verbal extravagance." Stephanie Burt of the Los Angeles Review of Books wrote, "...the poems are equally conscious of impending death and of the next day’s life, having spent time in

896-592: The American Repertory Theater , and also appeared as Blaze in the musical Chix6 . In 2013, Hall originated the role of Nicola (played on film by Jemima Rooper ) in the musical Kinky Boots , which won the Tony Award for Best Musical. In 2013, her band The Deafening released an album with original songs titled Central Booking . In 2014, Hall was cast as Yitzhak in the Broadway production Hedwig and

952-634: The David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University and lives in Brooklyn with her family. Orlando , an adaptation of the novel by Virginia Woolf , was commissioned by the Piven Theatre Workshop and premiered in Evanston, Illinois in May 1998 featuring Justine Scarpa as Orlando. Director Joyce Piven later helmed the show again in March 2003 at The Actors' Gang , Hollywood, California, with Polly Noonan taking on

1008-566: The Lincoln Center . Hall released a series of 12 digital EPs titled Obsessed in 2018, one per month. The January release consists of selections from Hedwig and the Angry Inch , while each of the others features her renditions of several songs by a different artist. In 2021, Hall voice acted in a live-streamed reading of a science fiction screenplay called Aurora by Joe Scott, playing multiple roles. The reading, which served as Scott's YouTube channel's Halloween special and centered around

1064-406: The Tony Award for her performance as Yitzhak in the 2014 revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch , which also earned her a Grammy nomination for the musical's official album . She made history by becoming the first person to play both Hedwig and Yitzhak in the same production during the national tour of the musical in 2016. Her other Broadway credits include Cats , 42nd Street , Dracula,

1120-511: The 115th episode of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic , titled "The Mane Attraction". In 2016, Hall played a seductive yoga instructor in an episode of the HBO series Girls . She also performs the songs along with Tony Vincent for the fictional band "Dog Gone" in the 2015 PBS series Nature Cat . She has appeared in the movies Sex and the City (2008), The Graduates (2008), Born from

1176-579: The 2003 Eurydice , a retelling of the Orpheus myth from his inamorata's point of view, in which the dead Father, reunited with his daughter, tries to re-teach her lost vocabulary.) Eurydice is Ruhl's version of the classic Eurydice and Orpheus tale. It portrays an Alice in Wonderland -esque underworld, complete with talking stones and a Lord of the Underworld, who can be seen riding a red tricycle. In keeping with

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1232-451: The 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was nominated for the 2010 Tony Award for Best Play, Best Featured Actress, and Best Costume. Ruhl explains, One physician quoted in the book [ The Technology of the Orgasm ] argued that at least three-fourths of women had ailments that could be cured by the vibrator. Which is kind of stunning. The economy for vibrators, even then, was vast; I mean, it was

1288-492: The Angry Inch , (a role previously played off-Broadway by Miriam Shor ) opposite Neil Patrick Harris , for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical . She left the role on April 4, 2015, after playing Yitzhak opposite Harris, Darren Criss , Michael C. Hall , Andrew Rannells and John Cameron Mitchell as Hedwig. In 2016, she was cast in the national tour of Hedwig, which opened on October 2, 2016, reprising her role as Yitzhak, and for one performance

1344-623: The Arts , where she first studied dance, and an alumna of the Young People's Teen Musical Theatre Company in San Francisco. Her first big break was singing for Pope John Paul II at Candlestick Park in San Francisco for over 50,000 people at the age of 7. Hall changed her professional name from "Celina Carvajal" to Lena Hall in 2013, saying she had created it for her music persona and now wanted to use it for her acting career as well. She explained her name change to Broadway.com : "Multiple people in

1400-583: The Carlyle , featuring her renditions of songs from artists such as Led Zeppelin , Tori Amos , Hozier , and James Brown . The album was recorded at the Carlyle Hotel during Hall's musical show Sin & Salvation , which ran for two weeks. Her TV work include 9 episodes of All My Children in the role of Treena in 2009, Juicy Lucy in Good Girls Revolt (2015), the voice of Countess Coloratura/Rara in

1456-488: The Foot (2009), The Big Gay Musical (2009), and Becks (2017), for which she received widespread critical acclaim. She has also appeared on TV shows like ABC 's All My Children , HBO 's Girls , Amazon Prime 's Good Girls Revolt , and voiced the role of Countess Coloratura on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic . In 2020, she joined the cast of TNT 's science fiction epic Snowpiercer as Miss Audrey. Hall

1512-482: The Foot (2009), The Big Gay Musical (2009), and Becks (2017), in which she plays the title role and her first leading role in a feature film, and received widespread critical acclaim for her performance. It won the U.S. Fiction Award at the LA Film Festival . In 2017, Hall starred in the role of Pip on Sarah Ruhl 's Off-Broadway play How to Transcend a Happy Marriage starring opposite Marisa Tomei at

1568-510: The Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, an annual US$ 10,000 award and publication contract, supported by Riva Ariella Ritvo-Slifka and the Alan B. Slifka Foundation . In September 2017 Milkweed Editions announced a second collection of Ritvo's poems that were published in 2018, as well as a book he co-wrote with Sarah Ruhl, Letters from Max. Ritvo's legacy at Columbia University's School of the Arts

1624-509: The Musical and Tarzan, the Musical . Hall has also starred in Off-Broadway productions such as Radiant Baby , Bedbugs!!! , Rooms: A Rock Romance , The Toxic Avenger , Prometheus Bound , Chix6 , Little Shop of Horrors , and the 2017 original play How to Transcend a Happy Marriage . Hall has appeared in films such as Sex and the City (2008), The Graduates (2008), Born from

1680-466: The Musical , and was the understudy for Kelli O'Hara as Lucy Westenra. In 2006 she was in the original ensemble of the musical Tarzan , and was also the understudy for Jennifer Gambatese as Jane Porter . In 2008, she competed in the reality show Legally Blonde: The Musical – The Search for Elle Woods , in which she was the 3rd contestant eliminated, and starred in the Off-Broadway musicals Green Eyes , and Bedbugs!!! , in which she played

1736-621: The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) premiered at Berkeley Rep in February 2009. The play opened on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre with previews starting on October 22, 2009 and an official opening in November 2009. This marked Ruhl's Broadway debut. The play explores the history of the vibrator, developed for use as a treatment for women diagnosed with hysteria. In the Next Room was a finalist for

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1792-622: The Residency 1 program by the Signature Theatre Company in 2019. This involves "a year-long intensive, exploration of a writer's body of work." In 2006, Ruhl received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship with a cash award of $ 500,000. Ruhl commented: "...the money is truly astounding. The whole thing really does leave one speechless." Ruhl has been awarded the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award for 2016;

1848-719: The Shattered Globe Theatre at Theater Wit in Chicago in May 2017, starring Ruhl's mother Kathleen Ruhl. Becky Nurse of Salem premiered at Berkeley Repertory Theatre on December 19, 2019, directed by Anne Kauffman and featured Pamela Reed as the title character. She is an active member of New Dramatists , a development space for new playwrights that is in partnership with the NYU Tisch Graduate Acting Program. Ruhl gained widespread recognition for her play The Clean House (2004). "The play takes place in

1904-652: The United States from the time of the Vietnam War until the present. Dead Man's Cell Phone (2007) premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in 2008 starring Mary-Louise Parker . Its world premiere was at Washington D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in 2007. It was subsequently produced by the Steppenwolf Theatre in 2008 and at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2009. The play received

1960-571: The age of 4. A graduate of Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, Ritvo earned his BA in English from Yale University , where he studied with the poet Louise Glück , and his MFA in Poetry from Columbia University . In 2014, he was awarded a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for his chapbook AEONS . He edited poetry at Parnassus: Poetry in Review and was a teaching fellow at Columbia. On August 1, 2015, he married Victoria Jackson-Hanen,

2016-428: The awardee is given a cash award of $ 200,000. The Steinberg committee said, in part: "Her work sparks conversation in audiences of all ages with its emotionally vivid language [...] Sarah Ruhl is unique. She fills her intelligent and highly theatrical plays with striking oddities and playful humor. Sarah is a prolific playwright of great distinction. Max Ritvo Max Ritvo (December 19, 1990 – August 23, 2016)

2072-448: The co-artistic director for the annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival; her mother was a prima ballerina and is now a yogi master . She has Swedish, Spanish & Filipino ancestry. Her paternal grandfather arrived from Southeast Asia Philippines to San Francisco in 1926, and her paternal grandmother is Swedish. Her sister is Calliope "Calli" Carvajal, a hair stylist. She is a graduate of Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of

2128-405: The confines of the poetic career; the life in which lines exist for what they are, not for future lines they might suggest. The life in which an early poem is also a poem, and a first book is also a book. According to Lucie Brock-Broido of Boston Review , Ritvo is "a Realist, a gifted comic, an astronomer, a child genius, a Surrealist, a brainiac, and a purveyor of pure (and impure) joy. His work

2184-409: The dots psychologically in a linear way," Ruhl prefers to create emotional psychological states through transformation of the performance space. In 2005, Ruhl married child psychiatrist Tony Charuvastra. He taught a course at NYU on marriage and divorce and sometimes included In the Next Room on his syllabus. Ruhl and Charuvastra have three children: Anna and twins William and Hope. Ruhl was awarded

2240-416: The industry suggested I have one name for everything. [Lena Hall] is just two shortenings of my first name and my last name. So Lena Hall is Celina Carvajal. It seemed like an easier way of people getting to know me. Lena Hall is a nice symmetrical name, and it reminds people of Lena Horne , who was a singer. And when people hear my name, I want them to think of a singer". She later found out that "Carvajal"

2296-504: The mundane aspects of daily life with mythic themes of love and war." John Lahr , in The New Yorker , wrote of Ruhl: But if Ruhl's demeanor is unassuming, her plays are bold. Her nonlinear form of realism—full of astonishments, surprises, and mysteries—is low on exposition and psychology. "I try to interpret how people subjectively experience life," she has said. "Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays, in

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2352-489: The occasion of a 2015 production at Piven of her Melancholy Play , Ruhl credited the institution with teaching her about the role of language and narration in theater. Ruhl attended Interlochen Arts Camp for several summers in her youth. When Ruhl was twenty, in August 1994, her father died of cancer after fighting the disease for two years, an event that would have a profound impact on her and her art. Ruhl had intended to become

2408-733: The play as a libretto for a new opera composed by Matthew Aucoin . It premiered at the Los Angeles Opera on February 1, 2020. and at the Metropolitan Opera on November 23, 2021. Ruhl's Passion Play cycle premiered at the Arena Stage , Washington, D.C., in 2005, directed by Molly Smith . It was next produced by the Goodman Theatre (Chicago) and Yale Rep (New Haven). Ruhl began writing Passion Play at age 21, while studying with Paula Vogel at Brown University. She did not finish

2464-642: The play until eight years later, after Wendy C. Goldberg and Arena's Molly Smith commissioned the third act. Passion Play made its New York City premiere in Spring 2010 in a production by the Epic Theatre Ensemble at the Irondale Center in Brooklyn . Each part of the trilogy depicts the staging of a Passion Play at a different place and during a different historical period: Elizabethan England, Nazi Germany, and

2520-455: The play's Greek origins, the Stones serve as a new take on a Greek chorus. The Stones comment on the action and warn the characters, but cannot intervene in any of the events. The play explores relationships, love, communication, and the permeability between the world of the living and the world of the dead, in a quest to discover where true meaning lies in life and thereafter. In 2020, Ruhl adapted

2576-462: The role of Demeter after first performing in the national tour in 1998. She next took over the role of Ann "Anytime Annie" Reilly in 42nd Street . She also performed in a national tour of Annie Get Your Gun , understudying the lead role. In 2003, Hall appeared in Radiant Baby , a musical about artist Keith Haring , in various roles. In 2004 she was in the original ensemble of Dracula,

2632-626: The role of Carly at the New York Musical Theatre Festival . In 2009, she was the understudy for Leslie Kritzer in the role of Monica P. Miller in the musical Rooms: A Rock Romance . Also in 2009, she took over the lead role of Sarah in the musical The Toxic Avenger at the New World Stages . In 2011, she performed as Daughter of the Ocean in the musical Prometheus Bound , inspired by Aeschylus's Ancient Greek tragedy , at

2688-772: The title role. The play was produced Off-Broadway by the Classic Stage Company in 2010. In 2015, Orlando premiered for the Sydney Theatre Company at the Sydney Opera House with actress Jacqueline McKenzie playing the lead. The Lady with the Lap Dog , and Anna Around the Neck (adapted from Anton Chekhov ) were commissioned and produced by the Piven Theatre Workshop in 2001. The two plays are Ruhl's stage adaptions of Anton Chekov short stories. Late: A Cowboy Song

2744-600: The wilder country of the afflicted but dancing body and the devastated but joking mind. David Orr, reviewing Four Reincarnations for the New York Times , wrote: It is good-humored ("My genes are in mice, and not in the banal way / that Man’s old genes are in the Beasts"), appealingly sly ("Enoch has written / We are made in His image / but God may have many images./ He may want even more") and at times surprisingly whimsical ("Every day

2800-520: Was an American poet . Milkweed Editions posthumously published a full-length collection of his poems, Four Reincarnations , to positive critical reviews. Milkweed published Letters from Max (co-written with Sarah Ruhl ) and a second collection of Ritvo's poems, The Final Voicemails , in September 2018. Max Ritvo was born in Los Angeles, California , on December 19, 1990. He began writing poetry at

2856-616: Was celebrated on October 18, 2017, with the Inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Series and scholarship, sponsored by a $ US 500,000 grant from Riva Ariella Ritvo-Slifka and the Alan B. Slifka Foundation, Inc. Lena Hall Celina Consuela Gabriella Carvajal (born January 30, 1980), known professionally as Lena Hall , is an American actress and singer. She originated the role of Nicola in the Broadway musical Kinky Boots and won

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2912-418: Was directed by Rebecca Taichman and starred Celia Keenan-Bolger and James Yaegashi. Her play Scenes from Court Life, or The Whipping Boy and His Prince premiered at Yale Repertory Theatre on October 1, 2016 in previews, officially on October 6, and ran to October 22, 2016. The play, directed by Mark Wing-Davey, involves "privilege and politics in both 17th century Britain and current day America." The play

2968-524: Was his stepfather. Ritvo's work has appeared in Poetry , The New Yorker , Boston Review , and as a Poem-a-day on Poets.org . He gave numerous written and radio interviews before his death. Four Reincarnations , a full-length collection of Ritvo's poems, was published by Milkweed Editions in September 2016. Sarah Ruhl of The New Republic called Ritvo "a poet of uncommon grace, vision and originality" who "wrote with an incandescent mind,

3024-1028: Was presented by the graduate acting class at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in November 2015. Her play How to Transcend a Happy Marriage premiered Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater on February 23, 2017 in previews, officially on March 20, 2017, directed by Rebecca Taichman. The cast featured Lena Hall , Marisa Tomei , Brian Hutchison, David McElwee, Naian González Norvind, Omar Metwally, Austin Smith, and Robin Weigert . The play, which takes place in New Jersey, involves two married couples. For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizon on August 18, 2017 (previews), directed by Les Waters and featuring Kathleen Chalfant and Lisa Emery . The play had its debut at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in May 2016 and then with

3080-511: Was produced by Clubbed Thumb (New York City) in 2003. The Cornerstone Theater Company (Los Angeles) commissioned Ruhl for a play about young people living in Los Angeles. Cornerstone presented the play, Demeter in the City at REDCAT in June 2006. The play is based on the myth of Demeter and Persephone . The Oldest Boy premiered in November 2014 at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. The play

3136-408: Was the lead singer of the band The Deafening , they released an album with original songs in 2012 titled Central Booking . In 2015, Hall released her first solo album, Sin & Salvation: Live At the Carlyle . Celina Consuela Gabriella Carvajal was born in San Francisco, California, on January 30, 1980, to Carlos and Carolyn ( née Houser) Carvajal. Her father is a ballet dancer, choreographer and

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