Adrian Einspanier

Adrian Einspanier’s plays include Lunch Bunch (PlayCo and Clubbed Thumb; New York Times and Time Out Critic’s Picks; licensed by Concord Theatricals; in development for TV with FilmNation), House Plant (New York Theatre Workshop’s Next Door; ‘highbrow / brilliant’ in New York Magazine’s Approval Matrix; Lambda Literary Award Finalist), I LOVE SEAN (Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow), The Convent of Pleasure (Cherry Lane’s Mentor Project), MADONNA col BAMBINO created with composer Deepali Gupta and director Caitlin Sullivan (Ars Nova’s ANT Fest and the New Ohio’s Ice Factory, curated by New Georges), Doctor De Soto and Other Stories by William Steig conceived by Miranda Haymon and co-written with Miranda Haymon and Seonjae Kim with music by Ellen Winter (TheaterWorksUSA commission), I forgot to tell you (The Brooklyn Rail, June 2021 Issue), and DEBT (co-written with reid tang, developed with Pride Plays, New York Stage and Film, and Breaking the Binary Theatre). A recipient of the 2023 Lotos Foundation Prize and a member of SPACE on Ryder Farm’s 2024 Working Farm, Adrian teaches at NYU Tisch and the National Theater Institute and is working on a new play commission for Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures and LAMF’s Theater Fund.