Edward Einhorn Bio

9. 2. 2020 v 20.26

Edward Einhorn is a playwright, director, translator, librettist, and novelist.  He is the Artistic Director of Untitled Theater Company #61: A Theater of Ideas, which has been performing in New York City for 25 years.

Some notable projects have been The Václav Havel Festival, a festival of all of Havel’s work, which he curated in 2006 with Havel in attendance, performed at The New Ohio, The Brick Theatre, and Columbia University; the 2009 Festival of Jewish Theater and Conference, at the Center for Jewish History and venues throughout New York; Cabaret in Captivity, songs and sketches from Terezin, performed at Pangea Cabaret, The York Theatre, the Czech Embassy in Washington, DC, the York Theatre, and Goodenough College in London; The Marriage of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein, which received at Critics Pick from The New York Times in 2017 for its production at HERE Art Center and will be opening at the Jermyn Street Theatre in London this May; The Pig, or Václav Havel’s Hunt for a Pig, adapted from the work by Václav Havel and Vladimír Morávek, performed at 3 Legged Dog in 2015 and also a New York Times Critics Pick (as well as in The Village Voice); The God Projekt, which played at La MaMa Theatre in 2016 and was a Critic’s Pick for Time Out New York; Rudolf II, an original play about the emperor in Prague which played at the Bohemian National Hall in 2010; and The Velvet Oratorio, an opera-theater production following Havel’s character Vaněk through the Velvet Revolution, which played in 2009 at Lincoln Center’s Walter Bruno Theatre and in 2014 at the Bohemian National Hall.  /more information inside/

The New York Times has called his work "exquisitely ingenious", “dramatically shrewd,” and "almost unbearably funny"; Time Out has called it "challenging, thought-provoking," “mesmerizing,” and “startlingly intense”; and The Village Voice has called it “hilarious, provocative,” and "Inspired absurdist comedy".  He has received a Sloan Grant, SEED Magazine’s Revolutionary Mind Award, The NY Innovative Theater Award for Best Performance Art Production of the Year, NYTheater.com’s Person of the Year Award and placement in their Indie Theater Hall of Fame. He has a BA in Writing from Johns Hopkins and a MA in Opera Making (with Distinction) from The Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

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