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- Birth nameRebecca Claire Gilman
- Born in Trussville, Alabama, playwright Rebecca Gilman attended Middlebury College and is a graduate of Birmingham-Southerm College in Birmingham, Alabama. Her plays include The Glory of Living, Boy Gets Girl, and Spinning Into Butter. She is a three-time Joseph Jefferson Award-winner. The Glory of Living was also named a Time Magazine Top 10 play for 2001, and it won Gilman the George Devine Award and the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright.
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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.
- Her play, "Spinning Into Butter," at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was awarded the 1999 Joseph Jefferson Award for New Work.
- 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.
- Her play, "Boy Gets Girl," at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was awarded the 2000 Joseph Jefferson Award for New Work.
- She was awarded the 2005 Joseph Jefferson Award for New Adaptation for "Dollhouse" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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