DAVID AUBURN is a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, screenwriter, and theater director. Born in Chicago and raised in Ohio and Arkansas, Auburn graduated from the University of Chicago and spent two years in the playwriting program at Juilliard where he studied under Marsha Norman and Christopher Durang. His first full-length play, Skyscraper, ran Off Broadway in 1997, but his best-known work is Proof (2000) which won the Tony Award for Best Play, the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for drama, and the 2000 Kesselring Prize. Other plays include The Columnist (2012) and Lost Lake (2014). He has also written the screenplays for Proof (2005), The Lake House (2006), The Girl in the Park (2007) which he also directed, and Georgetown (2019).