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Rebecca Gilman (Rebecca Claire Gilman) was born on 1965 in Trussville, Alabama, US, is an American playwright (born 1964/65). Discover Rebecca Gilman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 59 years old?
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Rebecca Claire Gilman |
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Playwright |
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59 years old |
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Trussville, Alabama, US |
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United States
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She is a member of famous Playwright with the age 59 years old group.
Rebecca Gilman Height, Weight & Measurements
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Dating & Relationship status
She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Rebecca Gilman Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Rebecca Gilman worth at the age of 59 years old? Rebecca Gilman’s income source is mostly from being a successful Playwright. She is from United States. We have estimated Rebecca Gilman's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Rebecca Claire Gilman (born 1964 or 1965) is an American playwright.
Gilman 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.
She serves on the advisory board for Chicago Dramatists.
Rebecca Gilman was born in 1965 in Trussville, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham.
Previously a longtime resident of Chicago, she resides in Green County, Wisconsin.
Gilman received the Scott McPherson Award for her play The Glory of Living.
This award is a commission given by the Goodman Theatre in memory of the late playwright Scott McPherson.
The Glory of Living (2001) also earned her an M. Elizabeth Osborn Award, an After Dark Award, a Jeff Citation, the George Devine Award, and the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright.
The Glory of Living earned her a finalist nomination for the Pulitzer Prize.
Gilman received the Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays as well as a Jeff Award for Spinning into Butter.
According to Chris Jones, this play made her "One of America's most talked-about and sought-after playwrights."
She has also been awarded Illinois Arts Council playwriting fellowship.
Rebecca Gilman was an associate professor of playwriting and screenwriting at Northwestern University from 2006 to 2019 and is now a professor and head of playwriting at Texas Tech University.
She is an artistic associate at the Goodman Theatre and also serves on the board of the Dramatists Guild of America.
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 currently teaches at Texas Tech University's School of Theatre and Dance as Head of Playwriting.
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."
