The Voxel Presents
Eurydice
In Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love.
Creative Team
- Co-Director
- Christopher Ashworth
- Co-Director
- Tessara Morgan Farley
- Set Designer
- Alec Sparks
- Sound & Projections Designer
- Jason Charney
- Movement Director
- Nigel Semaj
- Assistant Movement Director
- Bridget Wiggan
- Intimacy Choreographer
- Katie Hileman
- Production Stage Manager
- Grace Shepperd
- Assistant Stage Managers
- Olivia Dibble & Megan Eich
- Lighting Designer
- Peter Leipold
- Costume Designer
- Elizabeth Dunlap
- Stitcher
- Madeline Baynard
- Cast
- Will Murphy, Lloyd Marcus, Peter Musante, Flynn Harne, Nigel Semaj, J P Hargrove, & Cliff Doby
Content Transparency
This production contains themes of death, grief, and parental loss.
About the Creators
Sarah Ruhl’s plays include In the Next Room, or the vibrator play, The Clean House, Passion Play, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Melancholy Play, For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday, The Oldest Boy, Stage Kiss, Dear Elizabeth, Eurydice, How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, Orlando, Late: a cowboy song, and a translation of Three Sisters. She has been a two-time Pulitzer prize finalist and a Tony award nominee. Her plays have been produced on and off Broadway, around the country, and internationally, where they have been translated into over fifteen languages.
Originally from Chicago, Ms. Ruhl received her M.F.A. from Brown University, where she studied with Paula Vogel. She has received the Steinberg Award, the Samuel French Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the Whiting Award, the Lily Award, a PEN Award for mid-career playwrights, and the MacArthur Award. You can read more about her work on www.SarahRuhlplaywright.com. Her new book 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write was a New York Times notable book of the year, and she most recently published Letters from Max with Max Ritvo. She teaches at the Yale School of Drama, and she lives in Brooklyn with her family.