Rebecca Gilman's plays include Swing State, Luna Gale, Boy Gets Girl, Twilight Bowl, Spinning Into Butter, Blue Surge, The Glory of Living, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Dollhouse, The Crowd You’re in With and A Woman of the World. Her plays have been widely produced, including by the Goodman Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater, Audible Theater, the Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Hampstead Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Acting Company, New York Theatre Workshop and MCC Theater. Among her many awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, the Harper Lee Award, the Scott McPherson Award, the Prince Prize for Commissioning New Work, the Roger L. Stevens Award, the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright and the George Devine Award. Boy Gets Girl received an Olivier nomination for Best New Play, and she was a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for The Glory of Living. Gilman received her MFA in playwriting from the University of Iowa, and she is an artistic associate at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.
