Sarah DeLappe

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.

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

Career

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,[1][2] and was a New York Times Critic's Pick.[3] The play won the 2017 Obie Award for Ensemble work.[4]

The Economist reviewer wrote: "She has penned an absorbing portrait of female adolescence in The Wolves".[5] The play was a finalist in 2015–16 for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize,[6] a runner-up for the Yale Drama Series Prize,[7] 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."[8]

DeLappe served as a writer-in-residence alongside J.T. Rogers for the 2018 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.[9]

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.[10]

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.[11][12] DeLappe is a writer for the upcoming HBO miniseries The Regime.[13]

References
  1. "Review: ‘The Wolves’: A Pack of Female Warriors, Each Determined to Score" The Independent, 2016
  2. Paulson, Michael. "Two Playwrights Will Share Prize in Honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman" The New York Times, November 8, 2015
  3. 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.
  4. 2017 Winners obieawards.com
  5. E. B. "Sarah DeLappe is a playwright to watch" The Economist, December 13, 2016
  6. "Sarah DeLappe – The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize". www.blackburnprize.org. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  7. "Playwright Emily Schwend wins Yale Drama Series Prize". YaleNews. 2016-03-28. Retrieved 2023-06-21.
  8. "Drama" pulitzer.org, retrieved April 16, 2019
  9. 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.
  10. "Bodies Bodies Bodies". Writers Guild of America East. Archived from the original on March 17, 2023. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  11. Ramachandran, Naman (2022-03-29). "Neon Swoops on Novel 'Cassandra at the Wedding,' Sarah DeLappe to Adapt". Variety. Retrieved 2023-06-21.
  12. 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.
  13. 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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