Rebecca Gilman (born 1965 in Birmingham, 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.Gilman was the first American playwright to win an Evening Standard Award. She serves on the advisory board for Chicago Dramatists. She has received the 2008 Harper Lee Award.Her most widely known works are Spinning Into Butter, a play that addresses political correctness and racial identity, and Boy Gets Girl, which was included in Time Magazine's List of the Best Plays and Musicals of the Decade.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. She is an associate professor in Northwestern University's Department of Radio-TV-Film and core faculty in Northwestern's MFA in Writing for the Screen+Stage program.When asked about her influences, she remarked that "I'm a big fan of Wallace Shawn. He's incredibly smart and the only writer who writes about intellectuals in a complicated and even contradictory way. He's really funny, too. I also like Donald Margulies, Kenneth Lonergan, and Conor McPherson...Caryl Churchill, Kia Corthron, and a Chicago playwright, Jamie Pachino."
She was awarded the 2015 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Writing for "Luna Gale" in a Goodman Theatre and Center Theatre Group production at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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Her play, "Luna Gale" in a Goodman Theatre and Center Theatre Group production at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 2015 Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Best Presented Production.
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Her play, "Luna Gale" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was awarded the 2014 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for New Work.
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Her play, "Luna Gale" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2014 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Large Play Production.
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Nominated for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "The Glory of Living".
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She was awarded the 2005 Joseph Jefferson Award for New Adaptation for "Dollhouse" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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Her play, "Boy Gets Girl," at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was awarded the 2000 Joseph Jefferson Award for New Work.
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She was awarded the 2000 Joseph Jefferson Award Citation for New Adaptation of "The Crime of the Century" at the Circle Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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Her play, "Spinning Into Butter," at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was awarded the 1999 Joseph Jefferson Award for New Work.
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Her play, "The Glory of Living," at the Circle Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was awarded the 1997 Joseph Jefferson Award Citation for New Work.
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