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JESSE EISENBERG
(1983 - )
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USA
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Creative Artists Agency NY
Jesse Eisenberg is a playwright and Academy Award-nominated actor. He is a contributor to "McSweeney's" and his humor esseays have appeared in "The New York Times" and "Harpers."
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Asuncion
In Asuncion, Edgar and Vinny are not racist. In fact, Edgar maintains a blog condemning American imperialism and Vinny is three-quarters into a Ph.D. in Black Studies. When a young Filipina woman named asuncion becomes their new roommate, the pair have a perfect opportunity to demonstrate how open minded they truly are.
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Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre
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Dramatists Play Service 978-0822226307
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Revisionist, The
David arrives in Poland with a crippling case of writer's block and a desire to be left alone. His 75-year-old second cousin Maria welcomes him with a fervent need to connect with her distant American family. As their tenuous relationship develops, she reveals details about her complicated post-war past that test their ideas of what it means to be a family.
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Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
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Grove Presse 2013 978-0802122339
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Spoils, The
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Nobody likes Ben. Ben doesn't even like Ben. He's been kicked out of grad school, lives off his parents' money, and bullies everyone in his life, including his roommate Kalyan, an earnest Nepalese immigrant. When Ben discovers that his grade school crush is marrying a straight-laced banker, he sets out to destroy their relationship and win her back.
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1st Produced:
The New Group at The Pershing Square Signature Center, NY
05 May 2015
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Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2016) 978-0-8222-3502-6
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