Rebecca Gilman

Rebecca Gilman (b. 1964 in Trussville, Alabama) is an American playwright. She attended Middlebury College, graduated from Birmingham-Southern College, and earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa. She lives in Chicago and serves on the board of the Dramatists Guild of America.^[1]

Gilman was the first American playwright to win an Evening Standard Award. She serves on the advisory board for Chicago Dramatists.^[2] She was awarded the 2008 Harper Lee Award.^[3]

Her most widely known work is Spinning Into Butter, a play that addresses political correctness and racial identity.

Plays

• The American in Me
• The Glory of Living, a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and won an Osborn Award, an After Dark Award, a Jeff Citation, the George Devine Award, and the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright
• Spinning Into Butter, which won the Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays and a Jeff Award
• The Crime of the Century
• Boy Gets Girl
• Blue Surge
• The Sweetest Swing in Baseball
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, adapted from the novel by Carson McCullers
• Dollhouse, adapted from Henrik Ibsen's play
• The Crowd You're In With
• The Boys are Coming Home (book by Gilman, music and lyrics by Leslie Arden)^[4]
• Lord Butterscotch and the Curse of the Darkwater Phantom (co-written with Lisa Dillman and Brett Neveu; world premiere Fall 2007.)

External links

• Rebecca Gilman's alumna page at the Birmingham Southern College website
• Rebecca Gilman - Eclipse Theatre Company's 2006 featured playwright

References

1. ^ http://www.dramatistsguild.com/about.aspx
2. ^ http://www.chicagodramatists.org/about/
3. ^ http://www.writersforum.org/programs/harper/rebecca_gilman.aspx
4. ^ See the Goodman Theatre website for more information.

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