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.
A production of her adaptation of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was the occasion of a protest by actors who felt only a deaf person should play a deaf person on stage.[4][5]
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)[6]
- 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
- ^ http://www.dramatistsguild.com/about.aspx
- ^ http://www.chicagodramatists.org/about/
- ^ http://www.writersforum.org/programs/harper/rebecca_gilman.aspx
- ^ http://thefastertimes.com/theatertalk/2009/10/14/the-new-york-theater-workshop-vs-the-deaf-a-modest-proposal-for-casting-plays/ | For a discussion of the issues raised by the protest about The Heart is a Lonely Hunter production and script
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/theater/14deaf.html?scp=2&sq=Rebecca%20Gilman&st=cse
- ^ See the Goodman Theatre website for more information.
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