My Favorite Sociopath

Kennedy is thrilled to be making his CATF debut! Broadway: Into the Woods (Drama Desk & Clive Barnes nominations). Nat’l Tour: Into the Woods. Off-Broadway: White Rose (Theatre Row), Dinner With Georgette (NYTW), Saturday Night (Second Stage), The Good Swimmer (BAM). Other recent credits: The Gifted Prince (Theatre Calgary), Titanic (Ogunquit Playhouse), She Loves Me (Bucks County Playhouse), Waitress (Ogunquit Playhouse; TUTS; 5th Avenue Theatre), the Little Mermaid (the Muny), Frozen (the Muny; Olney Theatre Center), Tiananmen (Phoenix Theatre Company), Gold Mountain (Utah Shakespeare Festival), Last Ship to Proxima Centauri (Portland Stage).

Credits include: Dial M for Murder (Asolo Repertory Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theater); Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); Inherit the Wind, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Tour, Our Town (Asolo Repertory Theatre); Richard III and The Magician’s Nephew Tours (Idaho Shakespeare Festival); Pride and Prejudice, Misery, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Great Lakes Theater), When We Were Young and Unafraid (Studio Theatre Tierra Del Sol). MFA Acting from The FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training, BFA Acting from Baldwin Wallace University.

“Regional: Rope (Hartford Stage) Valor, Don Quixote, The Nature
Crown, Master Butchers Singing Club, Macbeth (Guthrie Theatre). Film:
End of the Rope. Education: MFA, Columbia University.”

Aurin Squire is an award-winning playwright, journalist, and multimedia artist. Squire wrote the book for the Tony-nominated Broadway musical “A Wonderful World” that opened at Studio 54 in October 2024. He won the Helen Merrill Prize for Emerging Playwrights as well as Seattle Public Theatre’s Emerald Prize for new American plays. He graduated from The Juilliard School after a two-year fellowship in the Lila Acheson American Playwriting Program. Squire has had fellowships at The Dramatists Guild of America, National Black Theatre, Royal Court Theatre, and Brooklyn Arts Exchange. After graduating from Northwestern University, he worked as a reporter for publications like ESPN, The Miami Herald, The Chicago Tribune, The New Republic, Talking Points Memo, and Take Part. His dark comedy “To Whom It May Concern” won New York LGBT theatre awards for best play, best playwright, and best actor before being optioned and remounted off-Broadway to critical acclaim at the Arclight Theatre. As a documentary writer, Squire received a year-long commission to live in New Mexico, interviewing Jewish Latinos. He worked with an ensemble to create “A Light in My Soul,” a docudrama produced around New Mexico about Jewish families who fled from the Spanish Inquisition and settled in the American Southwest. Squire also wrote “Dreams of Freedom,” a multimedia installation video about Jewish immigrants in the 20th century, for the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. “Dreams” won 3 national museum awards and is in the permanent exhibit at NMAJH. His drama “Freefalling” was produced at Barrington Stage Company and won the Fiat Lux Award (“Let There Be Light”) from the Catholic Church’s Theatre Conference. Squire won the grand prize in the InspiraTO Theatre’s International Play Festival in Toronto for “Freefalling” and the play was published in Dramatists Play Service’s Outstanding Short Plays Volume 2. “Article 119-1,” his drama about a gay rights activist in Belarus, was produced in Florence, Italy, Norway, Vancouver, and Los Angeles in March 2014. Squire’s comedy “African Americana” received its world premiere at London’s Theatre 503. He has been a guest artist and lecturer at Northwestern University, Penn State U (Altoona), Gettysburg College, NYU, Molloy College, and New School University. His plays have been produced in London, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, and other cities in the US and abroad. Squire has worked as a tv writer on “This is Us” and “BrainDead” and was the co-executive producer/writer on the legal drama “The Good Fight” and the supernatural thriller “Evil.” He lives in New York City.

CÉLINE ROSENTHAL is a Tony®-nominated producer and award-winning director whose theatre credits include Dial M for Murder (Pittsburgh Public Theater and Asolo Rep), Grand Horizons, The Lifespan of a Fact, Camelot, and The Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Asolo Rep); Jennifer Who Is Leaving (Urbanite); Queen of Wands (Union Theatre, London); Trayf (New Rep); Drowning in Cairo (National Queer Theatre); A Doll’s House, In the Next Room, When We Were Young and Unafraid, and Angel Street (Studio Theatre TDS). Upcoming: the world premiere of Jenny Stafford’s Ahoy-Hoy at Urbanite Theatre.

Céline served seven seasons as Associate Artistic Director at Asolo Rep and has developed new work with New Dramatists, MTF, South Carolina New Play Festival, Florida Rep PlayLab, Urbanite Modern Works, NYMF, and National Queer Theatre.

Film credits include directing the award-winning short Wildflower and the upcoming films Getting Off, Musings, and I Have to Get This Off My Chest. Script Supervisor credits include Operation Fast Link (starring Bill Camp and Roman Griffin Davis), Study for a Large Painting (starring Saul Rubinek), Her Longest Way Back Home, Notes from El Barrio, and All That Remains.