Alice Wilkinson is a writer, actor, director, and teaching artist based in the Pacific Northwest.

As an actor, Alice has worked with the Texas Shakespeare Festival, Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival, Swine Palace Theater, BBC Radio Scotland, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Recent credits include Helena/Bottom/Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival (2024), Gertrude in Hamlet , the Nurse/Sister Laurence/Prince in Romeo and Juliet , Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, and the Fool in Lear at the Texas Shakespeare Festival (2023 - 2024).

Alice is a freelance writer for Ranchlands, a land conservation organization that operates large-scale cattle ranches in the American West. Alice’s writing is shaped by her time spent living and working on remote ranches, from the Chico Basin Ranch, in Colorado (90,000 acres) to Sieben Livestock Company, in Montana (40,000 acres).

Alice recently wrote, directed, and produced her play, To Stand in the Water (2023), at Louisiana State University. It focuses on the relationship between ranchers, conservationists, and recreationalists in the modern West, and how changing water laws are complicating these dynamics. Alice’s 20-minute solo show, Nightlatch (2024), details the epistolary relationship with the father-figures in her life and the effects of geographical isolation and loss during the pandemic. It was developed and performed at LSU and will be re-staged this spring, in Portland, OR, as part of the city’s Fertile Ground Festival (2025). 

Alice holds an MFA in Acting from Louisiana State University and a BA in Geography and Theater from Mount Holyoke College, with additional training from the University of St. Andrews, the National Theater School of Ireland, the Martha Graham School, LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts, and the United Nations International School. Alice has certifications in Tectonic Theater Project’s “Moment Work” and the Seven Pillars Acting Technique. Alice has taught classes and workshops at the Wyoming Shakespeare Conservatory, Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, Texas Shakespeare Festival, and Louisiana State University. 

Alice’s connection to vast, remote landscapes serve as her theatrical engine: the lens through which she sees the world, disseminates stories, and seeks narrative potential. The inherent poetry of heightened text is similar to the inherent poetry of a landscape; each with its own distinct rhythm and spirit.

UP NEXT: Alice will be playing the titular role in Twilight Theater Company’s production of Eurydice (Spring 2025). Find tickets here.