I Interview Playwrights Part 198: Alice Austen

Alice Austen

Hometown: I moved around as a kid and spent a lot of time in the Bay Area and the Northern California coast. I went to high school in Pleasant Hill, Oregon, a rural community near Eugene -which happened to be where Ken Kesey, the Merry Pranksters, Jerry Garcia and a lot of the Dead lived. So my first writing teacher was actually Ken Kesey.

Current Town: I'm a Chicago playwright. I live in Milwaukee.

Q:  What are you working on now?

A:  I took a couple years off from playwriting to ...