16 years after her daughter disappeared, a woman (Sigourney Weaver) meets a young woman (Kate Bosworth) who could be her missing daughter. Writer/director DAVID AUBURN, talks about his transition from stage to screen, and how he tried to avoid making "a playwright's movie".
David Auburn’s most recent work, the film
The Girl in the Park, starring Sigourney Weaver and Kate Bosworth, which he wrote and directed, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September, 2007. His plays include
Proof (2001 Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, and New York Drama Critics Circle Award),
The Journals of Mihail Sebastian, and
Skyscraper. His short plays have been collected in the volume Fifth Planet and Other Plays (DPS). His work has been published in Harper’s, New England Review, and Guilt and Pleasure; and he was a contributing editor to the Oxford American Writers Thesaurus. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he lives in New York City.
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