Edward Einhorn is an American playwright, theater director, and novelist, noted for the comic absurdism of his drama and the imaginative richness of his literary works. A native of Westfield, New Jersey, Einhorn graduated from Westfield High School, where he was an editor of the student newspaperHi's Eye. He attended Johns Hopkins University. In 1992 he started the Untitled Theater Company #61 in New York. With that company, Edward Einhorn has directed T. S. Eliot's Sweeney Agonistes, Eugène Ionesco's The Bald Soprano, Dennis Potter's Brimstone and Treacle, and Richard Foreman's My Head Was a Sledgehammer among other works. He has staged a festival of the complete plays of Eugène Ionesco, a festival of the complete plays of Václav Havel, a calypso musical adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, an adaptation of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and a "NEUROfest" of plays on aspects of neurology. Off-Broadway, he directed Fairy Tales of the Absurd, a trilogy of one-act plays, two by Ionesco and one by himself. Other adaptations include The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula Le Guin and City of Glass, by Paul Auster As playwright, Einhorn has composed one-act and full-length plays, and is known for an absurd comic style. Perhaps his best known play is The Marriage of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein, a farce set at a fantasy marriage between Stein and Toklas. Other work includes dramas on Jewish legends and a series of plays on neurological and neuroscientific topics — The Neurology of the Soul, The Boy Who Wanted to be a Robot, The Taste of Blue,, Strangers, and Linguish. He has adapted Lysistrata and Iphigenia in Aulis for modern audiences. He has also written a few plays on Czech subjects, such as Rudolf II, and The Velvet Oratorio. His most personal play, Drs. Jane and Alexander, is a found text piece about his mother and his grandfather, Alexander Wiener, who discovered the Rh factor in blood. He has written two Oz novels, Paradox in Oz and The Living House of Oz, as well as a number of short stories. He has also written two picture books on mathematical subjects for young readers: A Very Improbable Story, on the subject of probability, and Fractions in Disguise, on the subject of fractions. A number of his plays have also been published, including his Hanukkah drama, Playing Dreidel with Judah Maccabee In 2011, he authored the first English language translation of Václav Havel's final play, The Pig, or Václav Havel's Hunt for a Pig, as well as Havel's one-act, Ela, Hela, and the Hitch. Both were published, as part of Theater 61 Press' Havel Collection. Einhorn also wrote the introductions to all the books in the Havel Collection. In 2014 and 2015, he created and produced the show Money Lab, an economic vaudeville, produced at HERE Arts Center in Manhattan and The Brick in Brooklyn.
