Sarah DeLappe

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Sarah DeLappe
OccupationPlaywright, screenwriter, writer
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
GenreTheatre, drama

Sarah DeLappe is an American playwright. Her play The Wolves premiered Off-Broadway in 2016 to acclaim. It received the American Playwriting Foundation's Relentless Award in 2015 and was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. DeLappe wrote the screenplay for the 2022 film Bodies Bodies Bodies .

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Career

DeLappe grew up in Reno, Nevada. Her father is the visual artist Joseph DeLappe, [1] and her mother is a photographer and poet. [2] She attended Yale College, where her mentors included Paula Vogel. [3] DeLappe's play The Wolves premiered in September 2016 Off-Broadway at The Duke at 42nd Street and received acclaim and awards. The play centers on the experiences of high school girls through their weekly Saturday morning pre-game soccer warmups. It received the American Playwriting Foundation's inaugural Relentless Award in 2015, [4] [5] and was a New York Times Critic's Pick. [6] The play won the 2017 Obie Award for Ensemble work. [7]

The Economist reviewer wrote: "She has penned an absorbing portrait of female adolescence in The Wolves". [8] The play was a finalist in 2015–16 for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, [9] a runner-up for the Yale Drama Series Prize, [10] and a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer Prize committee wrote: "For a timely play about a girls’ high school soccer team that illuminates with the unmistakable ping of reality the way young selves are formed when innate character clashes with external challenges." [11]

DeLappe served as a writer-in-residence alongside J.T. Rogers for the 2018 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. [12]

DeLappe wrote the screenplay for the 2022 black comedy slasher film Bodies Bodies Bodies , based on a story and spec script by writer Kristen Roupenian. [13]

In March 2022, it was announced the DeLappe would adapt and executive produce the 1962 novel Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker as a film for Neon. [14] [15] DeLappe co-wrote the episode "The Heroes' Banquet" for the 2024 HBO miniseries The Regime. [16]

References

  1. ↑ "Digital Montage". x. Retrieved 2025-03-30.
  2. ↑ "Sarah DeLappe on having a play staged for the first time – The Creative Independent". thecreativeindependent.com. Retrieved 2025-03-29.
  3. ↑ Theater, Lincoln Center. "Sarah DeLappe on Women Warriors | Lincoln Center Theater". Lincoln Center Theater. Archived from the original on 2025-02-21. Retrieved 2025-03-29.
  4. ↑ "Review: ‘The Wolves’: A Pack of Female Warriors, Each Determined to Score" The Independent, 2016
  5. ↑ Paulson, Michael. "Two Playwrights Will Share Prize in Honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman" The New York Times, November 8, 2015
  6. ↑ Brantley, Ben (11 September 2016). "Review: 'The Wolves': A Pack of Female Warriors, Each Determined to Score". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  7. ↑ 2017 Winners obieawards.com
  8. ↑ E. B. "Sarah DeLappe is a playwright to watch" The Economist , December 13, 2016
  9. ↑ "Sarah DeLappe – The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize". www.blackburnprize.org. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  10. ↑ "Playwright Emily Schwend wins Yale Drama Series Prize". YaleNews. 2016-03-28. Retrieved 2023-06-21.
  11. ↑ "Drama" pulitzer.org, retrieved April 16, 2019
  12. ↑ Cox, Gordon (2018-04-17). "Beth Henley, J.T. Rogers and Sarah DeLappe Set for 2018 O'Neill Playwrights Conference". Variety. Retrieved 2023-06-21.
  13. ↑ "Bodies Bodies Bodies". Writers Guild of America East. Archived from the original on March 17, 2023. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  14. ↑ Ramachandran, Naman (2022-03-29). "Neon Swoops on Novel 'Cassandra at the Wedding,' Sarah DeLappe to Adapt". Variety. Retrieved 2023-06-21.
  15. ↑ Ritman, Alex (2022-03-29). "Neon Wins Rights to 'Cassandra at the Wedding,' Sarah DeLappe to Adapt 1964 Novel". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2023-06-21.
  16. ↑ White, Peter (26 July 2022). "Kate Winslet To Star In Authoritarian Limited Series 'The Palace' For HBO From Will Tracy & Stephen Frears". Deadline. Archived from the original on 8 October 2022. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
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