Aurin Squire

His play, Fire Season, world premiered at the Seattle Public Theater in January 2019.

In 2018, Squire's play "Running on Fire," was produced at Lee Street Theatre in North Carolina. "Defacing Michael Jackson" and "Don't Smoke in Bed" were produced in Chicago to critical acclaim. The following year, Squire's "Fire Season" world premiered at Seattle Public Theatre in 2019. Squire also co-wrote "Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy" which world-premiered at Miami New Drama a few months later to sold-out crowds and became the highest grossing play in the theatre's history.

Aurin Squire was a staff writer on the CBS political satire BrainDead that premiered over the summer of 2016. He was a story editor and writer on the first season of the hit NBC drama This Is Us, and is a producer on the CBS dramas The Good Fight and Evil (TV series).

In 2016, Squire won the Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights. In 2017, he was nominated for a WGA Award and Black Reel TV award for his writing on THIS IS US. In theatre, he won the Emerald Prize "[8]" from Seattle Public Theatre for new works in American theatre.

Squire graduated from The Juilliard School in May 2015.

In 2015 Squire was a Dramatists Guild of America playwriting fellow [5], an artist in residence at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange [6], and received a playwriting fellowship at National Black Theatre [7]. He's also in the US Writers' Residency at Royal Court Theatre in London.

His play "Obama-ology" received rave reviews when it premiered at Finborough Theatre in London, before being remounted at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2015. He returned to Finborough Theatre the following year with another sold-out hit with his dark comedy "Don't Smoke in Bed."

His play "Obama-ology" was developed at The Juilliard School [1] in 2014 New Play Festival, before opening to critical acclaim in London's West-End at the Finborough Theatre [2], and then the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) [3].

In 2014 his work garnered first prize at InspiraTO Theatre's International Play Festival in Toronto and Lincoln Center's Act One Prize.

In 2013, Freefalling won the Fiat Lux Play Award from the Catholic Church. Squire is also a recipient of the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwright Fellowship at The Juilliard School, and the two-time winner of the Le Comte du Nuoy Prize from Lincoln Center.

In October 2012, Squire ran the Vote It Forward Festival, promoting a competition that awarded $500–$1000 in prizes to the best voting-related videos.

Many of Squire's plays have received enthusiastic reviews and revivals, among them To Whom it May Concern, which ran off-Broadway in 2009, Match Me, produced by the New York International Fringe Festival in 2005. His writing has been called "a true gem that deserves to be set apart from the rest" by The Drama Review, "brilliant" and "thoroughly entertaining" by Show Business Weekly, and "engaging and provocative" by critic Martin Denton.

His dark comedy To Whom It May Concern premiered at the Abingdon Theatre and won the Fresh Fruit Festival awards for best play and best playwright. To Whom It May Concern was also produced off-Broadway in 2009 at the Arclight Theatre with a cast including: Israel Gutierrez, Matthew Alford, Nicholas Reilly, and Carmelo Ferro.

In 2009, Squire wrote the book for the children's musical Matthew Takes Mannahatta, called "refreshingly clever" and a "cheerful tribute to our multiracial, multicultural America" by The New York Times.

In 2007, Squire spent a year in Albuquerque, New Mexico, working with artists Leigh Fondakowski and Krista DeNio on a docudrama about Converso and Crypto-Jewish families who fled the Spanish Inquisition and settled in Arizona and New Mexico. Squire was commissioned to interview surviving Crypto- and Converso-Jewish residents, research, and collaborate to create what became A Light In My Soul/Una Luz En Mi Alma. The epic docudrama was performed by Working Classroom Theatre the following year at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, and received additional performances around New Mexico.