Brooklyn playwright draws inspiration from babysitter
Inspiration for a play can come from anywhere. For Sarah Ruhl’s latest, it came from somewhere close. So close it was in her house all along: It was the babysitter.
Ruhl, the twice-Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright, works from her Brooklyn home and spent many days caring for her three children with help from her Tibetan Buddhist nanny, Yangzom.
“She’s really one of the most patient, kind people I’ve ever met. So watching her example, I thought, ‘Hmm. Maybe there’s something to this whole Tibetan Buddhist practice.'”