Aurin Squire

Aurin Squire is an award-winning American playwright, screenwriter, and reporter. He has written numerous plays, while his reporting has appeared in The New Republic, Talking Points Memo, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, and ESPN, among other outlets. 2Early Life and Education Born and raised in Opa-locka, Florida, Squire graduated from The Juilliard School, New School University, and Northwestern University, where he majored in radio/TV/film and worked as a professional journalist for the Chicago Tribune and the Miami Herald. In his senior year, Shadows in the Light, an epic play about Cuban immigrants in Miami, was produced by the ETA Theatre in Chicago. At Juilliard he was in the school's playwriting fellowship while working for The New Republic and Talking Points Memo as a journalist. 2Playwriting Many of Squire's plays revolve around multiracial societies in transition or America's changing cultural make-up. His work reflects the Latino, African, Caribbean, African-American, and Jewish cultures he grew up around in South Florida. Squire was a part of the Lincoln Center Lab and his comedy "The Great Black Sambo Machine" was presented there and at Ars Nova the following year. 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 Alm