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Edward Einhorn (born 6 September 1970) 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 attended Johns Hopkins University. In 1992 he started the Untitled Theater Company #61 in New York (co-founded with his older brother David Einhorn, who has produced plays for the company). With that company, Edward Einhorn has directed T. S. Eliot's Sweeney Agonistes, Eugene 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 Eugene Ionesco, a festival of the complete plays of Václav Havel, a calypso musical adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, 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 (One Head Too Many) by himself.

As playwright, Einhorn has composed one-act and full-length plays, including dramas on Jewish legends and a series of plays on neurological conditions — The Boy Who Wanted to be a Robot (on Asperger syndrome), Strangers (on Korsakov's syndrome), and Linguish (on aphasia). He has adapted the Lysistrata of Aristophanes for modern audiences.

He was written two Oz novels, Paradox in Oz and The Living House of Oz (both illustrated by Eric Shanower), as well as a number of short stories. He has also written a book on probability for young readers, A Very Improbable Story, illustrated by Adam Gustavson.

In the year 2000, Einhorn was involved in a supposed controversy with playwright Richard Foreman over Foreman's Lava, although Einhorn has stated that the reviewer mistook a joke in the play for a real controversy. Four years later, Einhorn was involved in a more genuine controversy with the producers of Nancy McClernan's play Tam Lin, which resulted in legal action.

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