Daniel Aukin

Daniel is a New York based director.  Broadway: Sam Shepard’s FOOL FOR LOVE.  World premieres: THE BEST WE COULD (MTC), CATCH AS CATCH CAN (Playwrights’ Horizons), ADMISSIONS (LCT & London’s West End), SKINTIGHT (Roundabout and Geffen Playhouse), BAD JEWS (Roundabout), FULFILLMENT CENTER (MTC), RANCHO VIEJO (Playwrights’ Horizons), PLACEBO (Playwrights’ Horizons), WHAT RHYMES WITH AMERICA (Atlantic), SUITCASE and [SIC] (Soho Rep.), THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE (Dallas Theatre Center & The Public), HEARTLESS (Signature), 4000 MILES (LCT),  THE UGLY ONE (Soho Rep., US premiere), BACK BACK BACK (MTC, NY premiere),  EVERYTHING WILL BE DIFFERENT, CAT’S-PAW, THE YEAR OF THE BABY and MOLLY’S DREAM.  Also revivals of A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE and THE ADDING MACHINE.  Playwright collaborators include Maria Irene Fornes, Dan LeFranc,  Melissa James Gibson, Abe Koogler, Amy Herzog, Michael Friedman, Itamar Moses, Martyna Majok, Mark Schultz, Mac Wellman, Quincy Long,  Sam Shepard, Mia Chung, Joshua Harmon and Emily Feldman.  He was Artistic Director of Soho Rep., (1998-2006) garnering three OBIE Awards.

• “A pleasure of Mia Chung’s 'Catch as Catch Can' is the way it lays bare the theatricality of family life. Ms. Chung’s play is, in its tender way, a horror story: a dark parable about what happens if we try to swap roles or refuse to play along or reveal ourselves to our nearest without makeup or stage lights.”

  — The New York Times

• “★★★★★ Smoothly virtuosic — gently well-observed and rich in sidelong detail. Catch as Catch Can is what Off Broadway theater can be at its best. Don’t miss it.”

  — Time Out New York