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Alice Austen is the recipient of a 2007 Joseph Jefferson Award Nomination (Best New Work) for her play, WATER. Her scripts have been developed and produced by Victory Gardens, Theatre 503 (London), The Woodstock Fringe Festival (NY), Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, The Irish Theatre Company (Brussels), Famous Door Theatre, The New Plays Festival (Chicago), Stage Left Theatre and Chicago Dramatists. In 2006, in London, she was awarded a Royal Court Theatre Residency. Alice joined Shanghai Low Theatricals in 2009 Alice grew up in rural Oregon and holds degrees in French and English Literature from the University of Oregon (summa cum laud, phi beta kappa) where she ran sprints, middle distances and hurdles on the NCAA Championship Women's Track Team and was a NCAA Scholar Athlete. She attended the Faculte des Lettres in Avignon, the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, centre de philosophie du droit, and is a graduate of the Harvard Law School. While obtaining her law degree, Alice was admitted into the Harvard University Creative Writing Program (directors: Seamus Heaney and Michael Blumenthal), and was one of three students who established the Harvard Human Rights Journal, now the foremost periodical on the subject. Alice was the first American to receive a fellowship to the Court of Human Rights at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, and lived for a number of years in France, Belgium and Prague where she worked as a translator, writer and international attorney. Her play, FOUL: ON TORTURE AND LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL was performed at Theatre 503 in London, and was one of three winning entries in the 2005 Women at the Door national playwriting competition. FIRE was performed in the Steppenwolf Garage as one of three winning entries in the 2003 Women at the Door and was produced by Prop Theatre. Ms. Austen’s newest plays BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS and HER ONLY FAULT received staged readings in Chicago and New York this year. Her screenplay adaptation of Clifford Thurlow’s SEX, SURREALISM, DALI AND ME was optioned by Round Table Films and Fate Productions. Alice has been a Guest Artist/Lecturer at Lawrence University Theatre Department, Newberry Library, Chicago, University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee) Theatre Department and Highland Park High School.
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