Aurora de Asua is a Basque-American playwright, performer, and filmmaker based in New York and Chicago. Her plays include WIPEOUT (2024 NNPN Rolling World Premiere with productions at Rivendell Theatre, B Street Theatre, and Gloucester Stage Company; MTC Ted Snowdon Reading; Agnes Nixon Award), APING JANE (UCROSS Future of Playwriting Finalist); THE PRIDE BEFORE (sideshow commission); WET (The Playwright's Realm Scratchpad Ink Series, Agnes Nixon Award); THE HAIRS IN BETWEEN FRIDA KAHLO'S EYEBROWS. Her work has been developed at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, The New Harmony Project, The Old Globe, Chicago Children's Theatre, and Rivendell Theatre. Commissions include MTC's Sloane Foundation Grant, South Coast Rep's Elizabeth George Commission, sideshow, and Greenhouse Theatre. She is a graduate of Northwestern University where she studied playwriting under Laura Schellhardt. She has an M.F.A. in film from Columbia University.

A Jeff-nominated actor, Aurora was chosen by the Chicago Tribune as one of the Hot Young Faces of Chicago theatre in 2019.