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David Auburn (born 1970) is an American playwright. He was born
in Chicago, and raised in Ohio and Arkansas. He attended the University of Chicago, where he
was a member of Off-Off Campus, and received a degree in
English literature. Following a fellowship with Amblin
Entertainment, he moved to New York City and spent two years in The Juilliard School's playwriting program,
studying under the noted dramatists Marsha Norman and Christopher
Durang. His first full-length play, Skyscraper, ran off-Broadway in 1997. His short play,
What Do You Believe
About The Future? appeared in Harper's
Magazine and has since been adapted for the screen.
Auburn is best known for his 2000 play Proof, which won
the 2001 Tony Award
for Best Play, as well as the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Auburn has adapted it into a film, which was released in 2005. He
has also been awarded the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Following
Proof, he wrote the screenplay for the movie The
Lake House, released by Warner Bros. in 2006. In 2007, he made his
directorial debut with the The Girl in the Park, for
which he also wrote the screenplay.
He currently resides in Manhattan, New York.
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