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Alice Austen

Alice Austen
Alice Austen won the John Cassavetes Award for her debut film Give Me Liberty  (writer/producer). She is a past resident of the Royal Court Theatre and her internationally produced plays include Animal Farm (Steppenwolf Theatre), Water, Cherry Orchard Massacre, and Girls in the Boat (Dramatic Publishing). She studied creative writing under Seamus Heaney at Harvard, where she received her JD, after which she moved to Brussels and lived on Place Brugmann. Austen currently lives in Milwaukee and is working on a new film and her next novel.


Playing the End: Alice Austen on Writing Character Like an Actor

“We all have layers; we are all actors playing our parts.”
March 14, 2025  By Alice Austen
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