Alice Abracen is an award-winning emerging playwright. She is a graduate of Harvard University with a BA in English and Religion and recently completed the Playwriting program at the National Theatre School of Canada. Her play Omission was featured in the Centennial Season of Alumnae Theatre in Toronto and her play The Covenant won the 2017 Canadian Jewish Playwriting Competition. She recently won the inaugural Mécénat Musica Prix 3 Femmes as an emerging librettist along with collaborator and composer Maria Atallah for The Chair, which will enjoy its second workshop hosted by Toronto’s Tapestry Opera in March, and later see numerous public performances in cities across Canada. Her play The Tour recently received its US premiere with Underlings Theatre Company, whose 2019 season will feature her play What Rough Beast. Her work has been featured with the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club, the Montreal Fringe Festival and the Women Playwrights International Conferences in Cape Town and Santiago. She looks forward to the reading of What Rough Beast at the Centaur Theatre's Legacy series this spring. Alice is extremely thrilled to be launching Theatre Ouest End with her cherished family, friends, and collaborators.