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The Playwright
The Wolves wouldn't exist without her!
Who is Sarah Delappe?
Who is Sarah Delappe?
Sarah DeLappe is a new coming American playwright and screenwriter. Her debut play was The Wolves, published and performed in 2016. Her work in theatre and film is in its very beginnings! In 2018, she was a writer-in-residence (someone who's commissioned to write a piece of art about an organization/company) with J.T. Rogers (an American playwright, whose plays include Olso (2016) and Blood and Gifts (2011)) at the National Playwrights Conference.
After her work on The Wolves, DeLappe has worked more in the lengths of TV and film. In 2022, she wrote the screenplay for the slasher film Bodies Bodies Bodies. She was also announced in March of 2022 to be the executive producer of Cassandra at the Wedding, an adaptation of the 1962 novel of the same name by Dorothy Baker. She is also a writer for the upcoming TV series The Regime coming to HBO in 2024.
Production history
Production History
The development of the play started in 2015, where it had a workshop at the Playwright Horizons Theatre School.
The first production of The Wolves was produced by a theatre company named The Playwrights Realm. It's a non-profit, Off Broadway company that helps and supports early-career playwrights. It performed at The Duke on 42nd St. in New York City. The show's opening night was September 8th, 2016. It then closed on September 29th, 2016, then re-iopened again at The Duke on November 29th and closed on December 29th of the same year. The show would then return on November 1st, 2017 to Off Broadway at the Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi Newhouse Theatre, closing on January 7th, 2018.
The Wolves would then have it's official European premiere in October of 2018 at the Theatre Royal Stratford East.
The Wolves would go on to win many awards, such as the American Playwrighting Foundation's inaugural Relentless Award in 2015. It would be a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2015-2016. The Wolves would win the Obie Award for Ensemble Work in 2017. It was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2017, which the winner of that award would be the play Sweat by Lynn Nottage.
Past Production Photos
Photo credit goes to the official Playwrights Realm website (Daniel J.Vasquez), The New York Times (Sara Krulwich), and New York Theatre Reviews (Jonathan Mandell).
Past Production Photos
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