{{short description|American playwright}} {{Infobox writer | name= Sarah DeLappe | image = | caption= | birth_date= | occupation=Playwright, screenwriter, writer | education= | language=English | nationality=American | genre=Theatre, drama | website= }}
'''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''.
==Career==
DeLappe grew up in Reno, Nevada. Her father is the visual artist Joseph DeLappe,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Digital Montage |url=https://www.delappe.net/digital-montage |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=x |language=en-GB}}</ref> and her mother is a photographer and poet Laurie Macfee.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sarah DeLappe on having a play staged for the first time – The Creative Independent |url=https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/sarah-delappe-on-having-a-play-staged-for-the-first-time/ |access-date=2025-03-29 |website=thecreativeindependent.com |language=en}}</ref> She attended Yale College, where her mentors included Paula Vogel.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Theater |first=Lincoln Center |title=Sarah DeLappe on Women Warriors {{!}} Lincoln Center Theater |url=https://www.lct.org/explore/blog/sarah-delappe-women-warriors/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250221185813/https://www.lct.org/explore/blog/sarah-delappe-women-warriors/ |archive-date=2025-02-21 |access-date=2025-03-29 |website=Lincoln Center Theater |language=en |url-status=live }}</ref> DeLappe's play ''The Wolves'' was premiered by The Playwrights Realm 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,<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-wolves-sarah-delappe-duke-theatre-football-soccer-debut-play-award-review-watch-a7457651.html "Review: ‘The Wolves’: A Pack of Female Warriors, Each Determined to Score"] ''The Independent'', 2016</ref><ref>Paulson, Michael. [http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/two-playwrights-will-share-prize-in-honor-of-philip-seymour-hoffman/?_r=1 "Two Playwrights Will Share Prize in Honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman"] ''The New York Times'', November 8, 2015</ref> and was a ''New York Times'' Critic's Pick.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/12/theater/the-wolves-review.html|title=Review: 'The Wolves': A Pack of Female Warriors, Each Determined to Score|last=Brantley|first=Ben|date=11 September 2016|work=The New York Times|accessdate=30 July 2018}}</ref> The play won the 2017 Obie Award for Ensemble work.<ref>[http://www.obieawards.com/events/year-2017/ 2017 Winners] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190507234913/http://www.obieawards.com/events/year-2017/ |date=2019-05-07 }} obieawards.com</ref>
''The Economist'' reviewer wrote: "She has penned an absorbing portrait of female adolescence in ''The Wolves''".<ref>E. B. [https://www.economist.com/prospero/2016/12/13/sarah-delappe-is-a-playwright-to-watch "Sarah DeLappe is a playwright to watch"] ''The Economist'', December 13, 2016</ref> The play was a finalist in 2015–16 for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize,<ref name="black">{{cite web|url=http://www.blackburnprize.org/home/finalists-2015-2016/sarah-delappe/|title=Sarah DeLappe – The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize|website=www.blackburnprize.org|accessdate=30 July 2018}}</ref> a runner-up for the Yale Drama Series Prize,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-03-28 |title=Playwright Emily Schwend wins Yale Drama Series Prize |url=https://news.yale.edu/2016/03/28/playwright-emily-schwend-wins-yale-drama-series-prize |access-date=2023-06-21 |website=YaleNews |language=en}}</ref> 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."<ref>[https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/sarah-delappe "Drama"] pulitzer.org, retrieved April 16, 2019</ref>
DeLappe served as a writer-in-residence alongside J.T. Rogers for the 2018 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cox |first=Gordon |date=2018-04-17 |title=Beth Henley, J.T. Rogers and Sarah DeLappe Set for 2018 O'Neill Playwrights Conference |url=https://variety.com/2018/legit/news/oneill-national-playwrights-conference-2018-plays-1202754068/ |access-date=2023-06-21 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bodies Bodies Bodies |url=https://findawriter.wgaeast.org/project/1210473/bodies-bodies-bodies |website=Writers Guild of America East |access-date=15 August 2022 |archive-date=March 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230317073332/https://findawriter.wgaeast.org/project/1210473/bodies-bodies-bodies |url-status=live }}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ramachandran |first=Naman |date=2022-03-29 |title=Neon Swoops on Novel 'Cassandra at the Wedding,' Sarah DeLappe to Adapt |url=https://variety.com/2022/film/news/neon-cassandra-at-the-wedding-sarah-delappe-1235217661/ |access-date=2023-06-21 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ritman |first=Alex |date=2022-03-29 |title=Neon Wins Rights to 'Cassandra at the Wedding,' Sarah DeLappe to Adapt 1964 Novel |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/cassandra-at-the-wedding-neon-sarah-delappe-1235121434/ |access-date=2023-06-21 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}</ref> DeLappe co-wrote the episode "The Heroes' Banquet" for the 2024 HBO miniseries ''The Regime''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=White |first=Peter |date=26 July 2022 |title=Kate Winslet To Star In Authoritarian Limited Series 'The Palace' For HBO From Will Tracy & Stephen Frears |url=https://deadline.com/2022/07/kate-winslet-authoritarian-limited-series-the-palace-hbo-1235077969/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221008080533/https://deadline.com/2022/07/kate-winslet-authoritarian-limited-series-the-palace-hbo-1235077969/ |archive-date=8 October 2022 |access-date=19 April 2023 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}</ref>
==References== <references /> == External links == * {{imdbname|11972817}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:DeLappe, Sarah}} Category:American dramatists and playwrights Category:21st-century American dramatists and playwrights Category:Living people Category:American women dramatists and playwrights Category:21st-century American women writers Category:Obie Award recipients Category:Year of birth missing (living people)