Sarah Ruhl, a Santa Monica playwright who received notice last year for her stage version of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" at the Actors' Gang, has won the $10,000 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her unproduced script "The Clean House."
The annual prize is for an outstanding new English-language play by a woman. Among the past winners are Caryl Churchill, Marsha Norman, Wendy Wasserstein, Naomi Wallace and Paula Vogel, under whom Ruhl studied while earning a master's at Brown University.
