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Rebecca Gilman - Screenplays

Rebecca Gilman
c/o Northwestern University
1920 Campus Drive
Room 304
Evanston, IL 60201
http://www.communication.northwestern.edu/faculty/index.phpPID=Rebecca%20Gilman&type=dept

Hometown: Birmingham, AL

Genre

• Screenplays
• Drama

Publications and Awards

Screenplays:
Spinning Into Butter, original screenplay with Doug Atchison, 2005
Untitled Rebecca Gilman Project (pilot), HBO Independent Productions for CBS, 2004
The Second, Commissioned by Chicago Films, 2000

Awards:
The Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer of the Year, 2008
Honorary Doctor of Humanities Degree, Birmingham-Southern College, 2006
Time magazine’s Top Ten Plays of 2001
Guggenheim Fellowship in Playwriting, 2000
Prince Prize for Commissioning New Work, 2000
Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Play, 2000
Joseph Jefferson Citation for Adaptation, 2000
Time magazine’s Top Ten Plays of 1999
Evening Standard Theatre Award for Most Promising
Playwright, 1999
George Devine Award, 1999
Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Play, 1999
Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, 1998
American Theatre Critics Association’s Osborn Award, 1997
Scott McPherson Award, 1997
Joseph Jefferson Citation for New Work, 1997

More Information

Gives readings:Yes
Travels to readings:N/A
Conducts workshops:N/A
Available for interviews:N/A