Aurin Squire, Director of New Play Development

Aurin Squire is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and reporter. At Northwestern University he started off in newspapers working for the Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, and many other publications before his first play Shadows in the Light was mounted at eta Creative Arts in the south side of Chicago. That was all it took. Afterward he graduated with honors in Radio/TV/Film with a minor in Creative Writing in Media. Since leaving school, Aurin has been produced around the country and has been a guest artist at Gettysburg College, New School University, and Malloy College among other places. In 2007 he spent most of the year working in Albuquerque, New Mexico as a research/writer with Tectonics Theatre on a historical drama. The following year he worked on the Obama campaign in Cleveland, Ohio as a deputy field organizer.

In 2008, Aurin was a Resident Playwright at Freedom Train Productions where he workshopped Submerged, a comedy about freedom from sexual compulsion. His dark comedy To Whom It May Concern won best play and best playwriting at the LGBT Fresh Fruit Festival and in 2009 was produced off-broadway at ArcLight Theatre. In 2009 Vital Theatre commissioned him to write the book for the family musical Matthew Takes Mannahatta which opened off-broadway at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre.

Aurin is the co-creator of Bodega Ave, a web-based cartoon that has been featured in the New York Daily News, Ambiente Magazine, and LATV.

As Director of New Play Development, Aurin heads the new work creation and workshop process and runs Freedom Train Productions' popular theatre education work. He lives in Brooklyn.

Contact:
aurin[AT]freedomtrainproductions.org

Photo Credit: Terri Brathwaite

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