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About Me

I am a novelist/playwright/theater director. Recent projects were a calypso musical version of Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle and a picture book about probability entitled A Very Improbable Story (Charlesbridge Press) which came out in February.
Books I've written include the modern Oz novels Paradox in Oz , and The Living House of Oz ,the collection of plays (based on Jewish legends) Golem, Methuselah, and Shylock , and my adaptation of Lysistrata .
I also run the Untitled Theater Company #61 , a New York based theater company that presents what I call a Theater of Ideas, with a strong absurdist influence. Our most prominent projects have been out festivals: The Havel Festival (all the plays of Vaclav Havel), The Ionesco Festival (all the plays of Eugene Ionesco), and the NEUROfest (plays based on neurological conditions.
Plays I've written include Off-Broadway show (which I co-wrote and directed) "Fairy Tales of the Absurd"; a number of plays about neurological conditions such as aphasia ("Linguish"), Korsakov's Syndrome ("Strangers"), and Aspergers ("The Boy Who Wanted to be a Robot"); a number of Jewish-themed plays such as "Golem Stories," "The Living Methuselah," and "A Shylock"; and a few others on a variety of subjects.
I'm currently working on a number of projects: a picture book about probablility, a play about my grandfather (who discovered the Rh factor in blood), another Oz novel, a play about Rudolf II, a short movie about sausage entitled "Carniovores", and many others.
More info on me is on my web site, www.edwardeinhorn.com .
Here are some photos from the Havel Festival:
Here are the covers from my books:

My Interests

Theater, Novels, Children's books, Neurology, Swing dancing, Poker, Jewish mythology, puppetry

I'd like to meet:

I'm looking for people who share my interests, whether it be children's fantasy, absurdist theater, neurology, Jewish legends, puppetry, Czech Theater, or anything else.

Music:

They Might Be Giants, The Kingston Trio, Kander & Ebb, Angelo Badalamenti, Nino Rota, Stephen Sondheim, The Beach Boys, Michael Nyman, The Weavers, The Inkspots

Movies:

Amadeus, Henry Fool, Raise the Red Lantern (or anything by Zhang Yimou), American Splendor, Mulholland Drive, Eyes Wide Shut, Barry Lyndon (or anything by Kubrick), Crimes & Misdemeanors (and selected other films by Woody Allen), Goodfellas, King of Comedy, Bringing Up Baby, North by Northwest, His Girl Friday, Young Frankestein, Ed Wood, That Obscure Object of Desire (or anything by Bunuel), Miller's Crossing, The Thin Blue Line (or anything by Errol Morris), Cabaret, Three days on the Condor, Au revoir les enfants, Brazil

Television:

The Prisoner, I Claudius, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Upstairs Downstairs, The Singing Detective (or anything by Dennis Potter), Twin Peaks

Books:

Cat's Cradle (or anything by Kurt Vonnegut), Catch 22, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (or anything by Oliver Sacks), Godel Escher & Bach, Maus, Age of Bronze (or anything by Eric Shanower), 1984, The Great Gatsby, The Plague, Motormorphosis, Lolita, The Wizard of Oz, Ozma of Oz (or anything by L. Frank Baum), Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass (or anything by Lewis Carroll), the Five Children and It (or anything by Edith Nesbit)

Heroes:

Vaclav Havel, Eugene Ionesco, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Stoppard, Oliver Sacks, Mark Twain, Alexander S. Wiener,

My Blog

Come visit my blog

I know this may seem like my blog...but I've got a shiny, new blog at: http://theaterofideas.blogspot.com/Come visit!...
Posted by Edward on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:54:00 PST

Review - Iron Man

My latest review is up at the National Board of Review - this one is for Iron Man. I thought I would post it, as I haven't been posting them for a while: Iron Man is facing an identity crisis. I...
Posted by Edward on Mon, 05 May 2008 01:49:00 PST

Cassandra’s Dream - review

I saw this two months ago and liked it--before I knew all the other reviewers would pan it. But I stand by my original review. There's something nice, at times, about seeing movies before ...
Posted by Edward on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:26:00 PST

Review - Persepolis

Another Review I wrote for the National Board of Review. I saw this months ago, and I am reco,mmending it to anyone I can: PERSEPOLIS - REVIEW &...
Posted by Edward on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 10:34:00 PST

Cat’s Cradle

So I'm finally fully cast for Cat's Cradle.I'm extrememly excited about it. I've been wanting to do an adaptation for years, and the team of people working on it is incredible. For the act...
Posted by Edward on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 10:23:00 PST

Review - Lust Caution

My latest review for the National Board of Review:I seem to have an inverse relationship recently with Ang Lee's movies. The more popular they are, the less excited about them I am when I see th...
Posted by Edward on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:14:00 PST

Review: Across the Universe

I am now doing a few movie reviews for the National Board of Review. Here's my first (in an edited version at http://www.nbrmp.org/features/AcrosstheUniverse.cfm):The jukebox musical has made it...
Posted by Edward on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:32:00 PST

The Responsibility of a Hero (Wole Soyinka)

This is a small piece I wrote in response to Soyinka's speech at the recent TCG conference in Minnesota. The conference was truly enjoyable, and I was very glad to have a chance to go. I a...
Posted by Edward on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:55:00 PST

From the NEUROfest: The Boy Who Wanted to be a Robot. A video and thoughts

Here's a video (I also have part 2) of a short play I wrote for the NEUROfest. It started as a short story for a book I'm still working on: Fairy Tales from Another Planet. When I wrote the short st...
Posted by Edward on Mon, 28 May 2007 06:53:00 PST

Unauthorized Magic in Oz. A video and thoughts

Here's a video (I also have parts two and three among my videos) of a play I wrote/directed, based on my Oz books. It was performed at Looking Glass Theater and at an Oz convention in Princeton, but...
Posted by Edward on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:40:00 PST