This short essay was originally published at the All Beaches Experimental Theatre blog, Writing in the Wings, for the occasion of their production of The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl. You can view the original with show images here. I met Sarah Ruhl when she visited my playwriting class at Northwestern. (She hails from nearby Wilmette, Illinois.) I don’t think I had a specific question for her, though others did — about process and production and research and agents and work-lif