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WHXO’S WHO

Summer Classical Training Program (Oxford,
England),; Kristin Linklater Theatre Speech
Workshop (Boston); et ma foli--Institut de
Francais (Villefranche-sur-Mer) and La
Sorbonne (Paris), post-graduate work in
French.

REBECCA GILMAN’s (Playwright) plays
include Luna Gale; Spinning Into Butter;
Boy Gets Girl; The Crowd You’re in With;
Dollhouse; Twilight Bowl; Blue Surge;
Soups, Stews, and Casseroles: 1976
and The Glory of Living. Her plays have
been produced by (among others) the
Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre,
SALLY EDMUNDSON* (Mabel Loomis the Royal Court Theatre, Lincoln Center
Todd) Actor: Stages: Salt, Root and Roe
(Anis), ANN (Governor Ann Richards), Theater, the Public Theater, Manhattan
Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop
Driving Miss Daisy (Daisy), Full Gallop and MCC Theater. Gilman is the recipient
(Diana Vreeland- 2014 and 1999),
Veronica’s Room (Woman), Steel Magnolias of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the George
Devine Award, the Harper Lee Award and
(M’Lynn), The Unexpected Man (Martha),
Auntie Mame (Mame), Southern Rapture the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American
(Marjorie Winthrop), Amy’s View (Esme), Theatre Critics Association New Play Award.
Bright Ideas (Multiple Roles), Elizabeth She is an inductee in the Alabama Writers
REX (Queen Elizabeth I), Betty’s Summer Hall of Fame, and she was named a finalist
Vacation (Mrs. Seizamagraff), All Over for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for her play
The Glory of Living. Gilman is an artistic
(Daughter), Quills (Marquise de Sade),
The Perfect Party (Lois), Laughing Wild associate at the Goodman Theatre. She
is also the director of the MFA playwriting
(Woman), Joe Egg (Sheila), Serenading
Louie (Gabby), Coyote Ugly (Penny Pewsy), program at Texas Tech University.
Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy
Dean, Jimmy Dean (Joanne); Regionally:
Upstream Theatre (St. Louis, MO): Salt
Root and Roe (Anest); Unity Theatre
(Brenham, TX): Steel Magnolias (Clairee),
Lettice & Lovage (Lettice); Pacific Repertory
Theatre (Carmel, CA): Elizabeth REX
(Queen Elizabeth I); Houston Shakespeare
Festival: Macbeth (Lady Macbeth);
Arkansas Repertory Theatre: Homefires
(June - world premiere), Lend Me A Tenor
(Diana); Virginia Shakespeare Festival:
Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice) and
multiple roles in Antony and Cleopatra and
Henry V. Director: Stages: The Language
Archive, Gidion’s Knot, Who Am I This
Time?...and Other Conundrums of Love.,
Who’s Holiday. Education: BA French/
Italian, University of Texas; BFA University
of St. Thomas; BADA/Yale University