Adrian Einspanier’s plays include Lunch Bunch (PlayCo and Clubbed Thumb; The New York Times and Time Out Critic’s Picks; licensed by Concord Theatricals; in development for TV with Film Nation), 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).
Their work has also been developed or presented by Ars Nova’s Play Group, Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers’ Group, the New Georges Jam (former co-leader), Williamstown Theatre Festival’s Directing Studio, and A24. They have been a resident at the Hambidge Center, Sewanee Writers’ Conference (Walter E. Dakin Fellow), Cape Cod Theatre Project (Noel Coward Foundation Writer in Residence), Mercury Store, Erik Ehn’s annual Texas Silent Writing Retreat, and Catwalk Art Residency.
A recipient of the 2023 Lotos Foundation Prize and a member of SPACE on Ryder Farm’s 2024 Working Farm, Adrian also teaches at the National Theater Institute and is working on a new play commission for Darren Aronofsky‘s Protozoa Pictures and LAMF’s Theater Fund.