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).

Proof premiered at the Manhattan Theatre Club in May of 2000 and was moved to Broadway in October of the same year. Both productions starred Larry Bryggman, Mary-Louise Parker, Ben Shenkman and Johanna Day. The film version starred Anthony Hopkins, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jake Gyllenhaal and Hope Davis. Proof tells the story of Catherine on the eve of her 25th birthday, who has spent years caring for her father, a brilliant mathematician. She is confronted by her estranged sister and her father’s former student, who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks her father has left in his house, perhaps the work of a genius or a madman.