Rebecca Gilman

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 currently lives in Chicago and serves on the board of the Dramatists Guild of America [http://www.dramatistsguild.com/about.aspx] .

Gilman was the first American playwright to win an Evening Standard Award. She serves on the advisory board for Chicago Dramatists [http://www.chicagodramatists.org/about/] . She was awarded the 2008 Harper Lee Award [http://www.writersforum.org/programs/harper/rebecca_gilman.aspx] .

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

"First of all you should know that I never think about these things while I'm writing. It’s only when people are interviewing me that I have to analyze my own plays." [Gilman, Rebecca. Personal Interview. 3 March 2007.]

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) [See the [http://www.goodmantheatre.org/Season/production.aspx?prod=68 Goodman Theatre website] for more information.]
*"Lord Butterscotch and the Curse of the Darkwater Phantom" (co-written with Lisa Dillman and Brett Neveu; world premiere Fall '07.)

External links

* [http://www.bsc.edu/academics/arts/features/gilman.htm Rebecca Gilman's alumna page at the Birmingham Southern College website]
* [http://eclipsetheatrecompany.wordpress.com/2006-rebecca-gilman/ Rebecca Gilman - Eclipse Theatre Company's 2006 featured playwright]

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