Daniel Max Aukin (born 1970/1971) is a British-American theater director.

[4] His paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants, his grandfather from Belarus and his grandmother born in Germany of Polish parentage.

[5] Aukin studied comparative religion abroad at the University of Chicago.

[6] Aukin became the artistic director of the SoHo Rep theatre in 1999.

[7] Aukin's directorial debut on Broadway was the 2015 revival of the Sam Shepard play Fool for Love.