Adi Eshman

Adi Eshman | Playwright and Screenwriter

Adi Eshman is a playwright, screenwriter and Jewish educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Originally from Venice Beach, CA, his plays have been produced or workshopped at USC, Columbia University, NYU Gallatin, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, the Braid, Cherry Lane Theatre and The Tank. In May 2023, he earned his MFA in Dramatic Writing from the USC School for Dramatic Arts. 

Adi Eshman is a playwright, screenwriter and Jewish educator based in Brooklyn. Originally from Venice Beach, California, his plays have been produced or workshopped at USC, Columbia University, NYU Gallatin, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, The Braid, Cherry Lane Theatre, and The Tank.   

Some of his full-length plays include Weekend Warriors, GOLEM, King Lesbian, Three Body Problem, Painters and Ostropol.  His short film screenplay ANNE was selected at more than thirty festivals throughout the US and Canada and won five Audience Choice Awards. Noteworthy credits include three years as the writer’s assistant on Steven Soderbergh’s HBO drama, Mosaic, and received his MFA in Dramatic Writing from the USC School for Dramatic Arts. Adi is a former member of the Civilians’ Field Research Team, a member of the Dramatists Guild and Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights.

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LABA project description  

I’d love to create an ensemble comedy that finds the Jewish connection in a whole host of animals we’d never want to eat, play with or keep as pets. I’m talking about nocturnal pests! Bed bugs bite us in our sleep, raccoons and possums make homes under our floorboards, cockroaches hide in the pantry, rats and and mice feast on our garbage… and it turns out, our rabbis have studied them, and about their relationship to Jewish laws and customs. What can we learn from these Jewish texts? And how do we keep our sanity, in the face of all these rodents and bugs? There’s only one way to find out!

What only comes out at night? 

Bed Bugs!