Amontaine Aurore

1996 Alumna

Cottage: Waterfall

Bio: Amontaine Aurore is a storyteller, playwright, actor, director, producer, and performance artist.
She is committed to presenting stories that illuminate multiple perspectives and explore human
complexity. Amontaine’s plays have been produced in Seattle, New York, Maryland, and abroad. Her solo play, Free Desiree, was named as one of the Best New Plays of the 2013 New York Fringe Festival by Indie Theater Now. Don’t Call it a Riot, her play about Seattle activism, was a finalist in the Bay Area Playwright’s Festival and premiered in Seattle in 2018. Her filmed stage play, When a Tree Falls, premiered at SIFF Cinema in 2022. Recently, Amontaine’s play, The Ever-Expanding Moment, which received a workshop through ACT Theater, had a threeweek run in September 2024 at CAM Annex, a new performance space in Seattle’s Belltown. Her play, Legacies: A Ghost Story, will receive a workshop and public reading at ACT Theater as part of ACT’s New Works Northwest Festival in November 2024. Amontaine is a 2024 Jack Straw Writing Fellow. She has received artist grants from Artist Trust, 4Culture, the Puffin Foundation, and the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture. She’s been a writer-in-residence at Hedgebrook Writers’ Retreat and the Seattle Public Library.