Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl

Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl

The comic odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.

An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet cafe. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man with a lot of loose ends.

Sarah Ruhl's play Dead Man's Cell Phone was premiered at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Washington, D.C., in June 2007. It premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in March 2008.

The play had its UK premiere in June 2011 at The Arches, Glasgow.

The Pulitzer Prize nominees In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) and The Clean House, as well as Passion Play, Dean Man's Mobile Phone, Demeter in the City, Eurydice, Melancholy Play, and Late: a cowboy song, are among Sarah Ruhl's other works. A Whiting Writers' Prize, a PEN/Laura Pels Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship have all been bestowed upon her. Her plays have had their world premieres on Broadway, off-Broadway, and in a variety of other venues throughout the globe.