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Jesse Eisenberg is an Academy Award-nominated actor, playwright, and contributor to the New Yorker and McSweeney’s. He is the author of three plays, Asuncion, The Revisionist, and The Spoils, which won the Theatre Visions Fund Award, as well as the story collection, Bream Gives Me Hiccups. Eisenberg’s film credits include The Social Network, Café Society, Now You See Me, The End of the Tour, and The Hummingbird Project.

Praise for Jesse Eisenberg:“His clever, frantic dialogue assumes an irresistible authenticity.”—Ben Brantley, New York Times (NYT Critics’ Pick) on The Spoils“Brutally funny and deeply moving.”—Huffington Post on The Spoils“It says a lot about Eisenberg—his extreme decency and his extreme neurosis—that the avatars he’s created for the stage are sadder and less admirable than the sly, nebbishy parts he’s played in movies. But that’s always been the fascinating paradox of Eisenberg’s life, the source of his strange charisma.”—Boris Kachka, New York Magazine on The Revisionist“Eisenberg writes funny, but he is also a real storyteller—moody and dangerous and even loving.”—Newsday on The Spoils