David Auburn is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter who has also worked as a director. His play Proof is among his best-known works; it won him the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as the Tony Award for Best Play.
Auburn was born in Chicago in 1969 and raised in Ohio and Arkansas. He attended the University of Chicago and later studied playwriting at the Juilliard School. His first Off-Broadway play was Skyscraper, which debuted in 1997. In 2000, Proof was produced at the Manhattan Theatre Club, starring Mary-Louise Parker. Following its significant success, Proof was adapted into a film in 2005, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Hope...
