Alice Austen (playwright)

Austen grew up in the Pacific Northwest. She attended the University of Oregon in Eugene, where she ran on the women’s track team.{{cite web |url=https://wrapwomen.thewrap.com/team/alice-austen/ |title=Alice Austen |website=thewrap.com |publisher=TheWrap}}

While at Harvard Law School, Austen co-founded the Harvard Human Rights Journal. She represented the Ministry of Industry in Václav Havel’s nascent Czech government. Austen studied creative writing under Seamus Heaney.{{cite web |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/5/25/give-me-liberty-feature/ |title=From Cannes: "Give Me Liberty" Team Reflects On A Number of Firsts |last=Wang |first=Lucy |date=May 25, 2019 |website=thecrimson.com |publisher=The Harvard Crimson}}

Austen is a past resident at the Royal Court Theatre. Her playwrighting credits include Water, La Musica, and Ninth Man Out at Goodman Theater.{{cite web |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2007-04-30-0704300102-story.html |title=In 'Water,' a cultural battle for small-town America |last=Jones |first=Chris |date=April 30, 2007 |website=chicagotribune.com |publisher=Chicago Tribune}}{{cite web |url=https://www.goodmantheatre.org/artists-archive/creative-partners/playwrights/alice-austen/ |title=Alice Austen |date=April 2013 |website=goodmantheatre.org |publisher=Goodman Theater}}{{cite web |url=https://www.timeout.com/chicago/theater/la-musica-at-salomee-speelt-theater-review |title=La Musica at Salomee Speelt. Theater review |date=April 24, 2012 |website=timeout.com |publisher=Time Out}} Water was a 2006-07 season the Jeff Award Nominee.{{cite web |url=https://www.theatreinchicago.com/news.php?articleID=268 |title=Jeff Awards Committee Announces Equity Nominees for 2006-2007 Season |date= |website=theatreinchicago.com |publisher=Theatre In Chicago}} Her credits with Steppenwolf Theatre include Next Stop{{cite web |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/chicago/article/Route-66-Announces-World-Premiere-of-Diana-Lawrences-NEXT-STOP-for-618-26-20120617 |title=Route 66 Presents World Premiere of Diana Lawrence's NEXT STOP, Now thru 6/26 |date=June 18, 2012 |website=broadwayworld.com |publisher=BroadwayWorld}} and George Orwell’s Animal Farm,{{cite web |url=https://timelinetheatre.com/person/alice-austen/ |title=Alice Austen |website=timelinetheatre.com |publisher=TimeLine Theatre Company}} which was noted for “its removal of Orwell's dystopian story from its overtly British agrarian setting: The famous anthem "Beasts of England" is now rendered as "Beasts of Earth"”, – wrote Chris Jones of The Chicago Tribune.{{cite web |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/ct-animal-farm-play-review-20141019-column.html |title=REVIEW: 'Animal Farm' at Steppenwolf Theatre Company |last=Jones |first=Chris |date=October 19, 2014 |website=chicagotribune.com |publisher=Chicago Tribune}} “A remarkable script, solidifies why this novel and its impact reverberates throughout the world today“ (Newcity Stage).{{cite web |url=https://www.newcitystage.com/2014/10/20/review-animal-farm-steppenwolf-for-young-adults/ |title=Review: Animal Farm/Steppenwolf For Young Adults |last=Webb |first=Loy |date=October 20, 2014 |website=newcitystage.com |publisher=Newcity Stage}}

Girls in the Boat, premiered in 2018 at The First Stage Children's Theater, is a “fast-paced script, which mimics the intensity of an actual sporting event. Audiences dare not blink or they might lose track of a gesture or a thread of a conversation” (Shepherd Express).{{cite web |url=https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/theater/first-stage-girls-in-the-boat-tracks-the-rise-in-women-s-col/ |title=First Stage 'Girls in the Boat' Tracks the Rise in Women's College Sports |last=Siegel |first=Anne |date=December 10, 2018 |website=shepherdexpress.com |publisher=Shepherd Express}}

Austen won the John Cassavetes Award for Give Me Liberty at the 35th Independent Spirit Awards.{{cite web |url=https://www.thewrap.com/independent-spirit-awards-complete-list-winners/ |title=Independent Spirit Awards 2020: The Complete List of Winners |last=Verhoeven |first=Beatrice |date=February 8, 2020|website=thewrap.com |publisher=TheWrap}}

She is a co-founder with Kirill Mikhanovsky of Give Me Liberty, Mfg., a Milwaukee-based film and TV production company.

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• [https://www.dramatistsguild.com/members/aliceausten-lawton Alice Austen] at the Dramatists Guild of America
• [https://www.filmindependent.org/talent/alice-austen/ Alice Austen] at the Independent Spirit Awards

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