Amontaine Aurore

Amontaine Aurore is a playwright, actor, producer, director, and performance artist. Her plays have been presented on stages in Seattle, Maryland, New York, and abroad. Her solo play, Free Desiree, was named by Indie Theater Now as one of the Best New Plays of the New York Fringe. Her play, Don’t Call it a Riot, which explores Seattle activism from the Black Panther Party to the WTO protests, was a finalist in the 2017 Bay Area Playwrights’ Festival, and had its world premiere in Seattle in 2018. Her filmed play, When a Tree Falls, was screened at SIFF Theater in 2022. Most recently, Amontaine was commissioned to adapt a play for Free Soil Arts Collective in Massachusetts. The Ever-Expanding Moment, her play which was workshopped through ACT Theatre’s ACTLocal, will have a full production in 2024.

Amontaine is the recipient of awards from Artist Trust, Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, 4Culture, and the Puffin Foundation. She has twice been a Writer-in-Residence at the Hedgebrook Writers’ Retreat on Whidbey Island.