About the Author

Rebecca Gilman was born in Trussville, Alabama, a small town outside Birmingham. She briefly attended Middlebury College in Vermont in the early 1980s and has lived in Chicago since 1994, after she received a graduate degree in theater from the University of Iowa.

Reviews

"Splendid . . . A play of blistering force . . . [Gilman] is poised to have a major impact on the American theater." --Chris Jones, Variety "An extraordinarily fresh, eloquent, and candid new play... by a writer of surprising gifts." --Richard Christiansen, Chicago Tribune