David Auburn
David Auburn ( born November 30, 1969 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American playwright and director, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his play Proof 2000.
Life
Auburn school graduation he visit a degree in English literature at the University of Chicago and graduated in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA English Literature ) from. In 1996, he worked the musical tick, tick ... BOOM! the composer Jonathan Larson to a three -person play about.
After the late 1990s wrote a number of plays, was published in 2000 with proof his greatest success. For this he was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for drama. 2005 Proof by John Madden under the title The evidence was - love between genius and madness with Gwyneth Paltrow and Anthony Hopkins filmed. For the film Auburn authored with screenwriter Rebecca Miller 's literary adaptation of his play.
In 2007, he staged as a director the film Girl in the Park, to which he had also written the screenplay, starring Sigourney Weaver and Kate Bosworth in the lead roles.