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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. CareerDeLappe'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 co-wrote the episode "The Heroes' Banquet" for the 2024 HBO miniseries The Regime.[13] References
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