Rebecca Gilman

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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.

Gilman was the first American playwright to win an Evening Standard Award.

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.^[1]

[edit] 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)^[2]
• Lord Butterscotch and the Curse of the Darkwater Phantom (co-written with Lisa Dillman and Brett Neveu; world premiere Fall '07.)

[edit] External links

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

[edit] References

1. ^ Gilman, Rebecca. Personal Interview. 3 March 2007.
2. ^ See the Goodman Theatre website for more information.