---
name: "David Auburn"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/david-auburn"
fi1m_id: "david-auburn"
imdb_id: "nm1430632"
tmdb_id: 21032
wikidata_id: "Q57061"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "30 November 1969"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T08:08:35.473727+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# David Auburn

## Identity

David Auburn

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/david-auburn
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** david-auburn
- **IMDb ID:** nm1430632
- **TMDB ID:** 21032
- **Wikidata ID:** Q57061
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Auburn, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57061, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1430632/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21032

Writer. Born 30 November 1969 in Chicago.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 30 November 1969, Chicago
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Auburn, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57061, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1430632/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21032

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Proof*](https://film.one/film/proof.md) (64)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

David Auburn is an American playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. He was born on 30 November 1969 in Chicago and grew up partly in Ohio and Arkansas. He graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA in English literature in 1991 and later attended the Juilliard School’s playwriting programme.

Auburn is best known for his play *Proof*, which premiered in 2000 and won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play. He wrote the screenplay for the 2005 film adaptation. His other screenplays include *The Lake House* (2006), *The Girl in the Park* (2007, which he also directed), *Georgetown* (2019) and the story for *Charlie’s Angels* (2019). His first full-length play, *Skyscraper*, was produced off-Broadway in 1997. He has directed stage productions and serves as associate artistic director of the Berkshire Theatre Group.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, encyclopediaofarkansas.net.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Proof* (2005), Fi1m 64, Screenplay, Theatre Play — [page](https://film.one/film/proof.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Charlie's Angels* (2019), Story
- *Georgetown* (2019), Screenplay
- *The Girl in the Park* (2007), Director, Screenplay
- *The Lake House* (2006), Screenplay
- *Proof* (2005), Theatre Play, Screenplay — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/proof.md)
- *Love Is a Gun*, Screenplay

## Awards

### Other awards — 3 won

- Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2001: Pulitzer Prize for Drama (won), for *Proof*
- Tony Award for Best Play 2001: Tony Award for Best Play (won), for *Proof*
- Guggenheim Fellowship 2000: Guggenheim Fellowship (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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