Let's make this birthday one to remember.

52 years old (Born on January 24, 1973)

Happy Birthday, Sheila! May your special day be as brilliant and wonderfully offbeat as your acclaimed masterpiece "Dead City"—but hopefully with fewer existential dilemmas and more cake-filled celebrations. You've carved out such a captivating space in New York's experimental theater scene; updating us on life's absurdity while leaving us both laughing and contemplating deeply.

Congratulations again on the Whiting Writers Award—it really solidified you among theater royalty (hopefully without the Shakespearean tragedy). Your unique voice continues to dazzle stages, inspire artists, perplex critics delightfully, and make audiences say: “Wow! I never saw life—or birthdays—quite like THIS before.” Cheers!