Playwright & DIRECTOR

Rebecca Gilman

Rebecca Gilman’s plays include Dollhouse, Spinning Into Butter, Boy Gets Girl, Blue Surge, and The Glory of Living. Her plays have been produced in Chicago at the Goodman Theatre, in London at the Royal Court Theatre, and off-Broadway at Lincoln Center Theatre, Joseph Papp’s Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Manhattan Class Company, as well as other theaters around the country and abroad. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Prince Prize for Commissioning New Work, The Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, The Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright, and The George Devine Award. Ms. Gilman was named a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for her play, The Glory of Living. She is currently writing the book for the musical The Boys are Coming Home, which will premiere at the Goodman Theatre in 2008, with music and lyrics by Leslie Arden. Ms. Gilman teaches playwriting in the MFA program for Dramatic Writing for the Screen and Stage at Northwestern University in Chicago. She is a proud member of the Council of the Dramatists Guild.
   
Amy Glazer Amy Glazer has directed world, American and West Coast premieres at Magic Theatre including Sam Shepard’s The God Of Hell, Rebecca Gilman’s The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Blue Surge and The American in Me, Steven Belber’s Drifting Elegant and Tape, and Barry Gifford’s Wyoming. For Marin Theatre Company she has directed Frozen, Displaced, Life x 3, My Old Lady, The Music Lesson, Misalliance, Candida, and Indiscretions. For Eureka Theatre, Stonewall Jackson’s House and Trust, and for TheatreWorks, Spinning Into Butter, Pride’s Crossing, An American Daughter, Conversations With My Father, Marvin's Room and Mrs. Klein. The recipient of Dean Goodman, Drama-Logue, and Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards and finalist for TCG’s 2003 Alan Schneider Director Award, Amy is an associate artist at Magic Theatre and is a theatre and film professor at San Jose State University. Her short film, Ball Lightning, premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival, and her feature film, Drifting Elegant, premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival and is scheduled for theatrical release in 2007.

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