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.