*Assistant Director

Adapted from a 2018 epistolary book Letters from Max: A, a Teacher, a Friendship—it was written by Ruhl and her former student, the late poet Max Ritvo. In the book Ritvo openly discusses terminal illness and tests poetry’s capacity to put to words what otherwise feels ineffable. The play explores the two’s correspondence throughout the last years of his life, celebrating and memorialising all the things that make up a life.

Starring Tony-nominated Jessica Hecht (A View from the Bridge, Breaking Bad) as Sarah with Ben Edelman (Admissions, The Gett) and Zane Pais (The Perplexed, Sunday) alternating in the role of Max.

The play was nominated for two Lucille Lortel awards for Best Sound and Projection Design, a Drama Desk Award for outstanding Music in a play and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play.