Alice Austen | |
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Born | Alice Lawton |
Occupation(s) | playwright, screenwriter, producer |
Alice Austen is an American playwright, screenwriter, and producer known for writing and producing the critically acclaimed 2019 film Give Me Liberty. [1]
Austen grew up in the Pacific Northwest. She attended the University of Oregon in Eugene, where she ran on the women’s track team. [2]
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. [3]
Austen is a past resident at the Royal Court Theatre. Her playwrighting credits include Water, La Musica, and Ninth Man Out at Goodman Theater. [4] [5] [6] Water was a 2006-07 season the Jeff Award Nominee. [7] Her credits with Steppenwolf Theatre include Next Stop [8] and George Orwell’s Animal Farm, [9] 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. [10] “A remarkable script, solidifies why this novel and its impact reverberates throughout the world today“ (Newcity Stage). [11]
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). [12]
Austen won the John Cassavetes Award for Give Me Liberty at the 35th Independent Spirit Awards. [13]
She is a co-founder with Kirill Mikhanovsky of Give Me Liberty, Mfg., a Milwaukee-based film and TV production company.
Year | Title | Credit | Notes |
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2019 | Give Me Liberty | Screenplay, Producer | |
2021 | Brighton 4th | Producer | |
2022 | Happy Birthday Charlie | Producer |
Year | Association | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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2007 | Jeff Awards | New Work – Play | Water, Chicago Dramatists | Nominated |
2020 | Independent Spirit Awards | John Cassavetes Award | Give Me Liberty | Won |
Alice Austen | |
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Born | Alice Lawton |
Occupation(s) | playwright, screenwriter, producer |
Alice Austen is an American playwright, screenwriter, and producer known for writing and producing the critically acclaimed 2019 film Give Me Liberty. [1]
Austen grew up in the Pacific Northwest. She attended the University of Oregon in Eugene, where she ran on the women’s track team. [2]
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. [3]
Austen is a past resident at the Royal Court Theatre. Her playwrighting credits include Water, La Musica, and Ninth Man Out at Goodman Theater. [4] [5] [6] Water was a 2006-07 season the Jeff Award Nominee. [7] Her credits with Steppenwolf Theatre include Next Stop [8] and George Orwell’s Animal Farm, [9] 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. [10] “A remarkable script, solidifies why this novel and its impact reverberates throughout the world today“ (Newcity Stage). [11]
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). [12]
Austen won the John Cassavetes Award for Give Me Liberty at the 35th Independent Spirit Awards. [13]
She is a co-founder with Kirill Mikhanovsky of Give Me Liberty, Mfg., a Milwaukee-based film and TV production company.
Year | Title | Credit | Notes |
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2019 | Give Me Liberty | Screenplay, Producer | |
2021 | Brighton 4th | Producer | |
2022 | Happy Birthday Charlie | Producer |
Year | Association | Category | Nominated work | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
2007 | Jeff Awards | New Work – Play | Water, Chicago Dramatists | Nominated |
2020 | Independent Spirit Awards | John Cassavetes Award | Give Me Liberty | Won |