Aurin Squire

Aurin Squire is a playwright, reporter, and screenwriter from South Florida. He has been awarded the Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, Seattle Public Theatre’s Emerald Prize for new plays, and fellowships at National Black Theatre and The Dramatists Guild. His political satire Obama-ology was first developed at The Juilliard School’s summer workshop before going on to be produced in London, Los Angeles, and Dallas. Squire was also a writer for Miami New Drama’s 7 Deadly Sins, which won a Drama League Award for Outstanding Interactive Theatre, and Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy which he co-wrote with Billy Corben. In TV, Squire was a co-executive producer and writer on the TV dramas The Good Fight and Evil. He has been nominated for two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series, a BlackReel Award, and a WGA Award for his work on This Is Us. He is a New Dramatists resident playwright, a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, and the Writers Guild of America. He graduated from The Juilliard School and Northwestern University.