Lunch Bunch 2023

Based on the real-life Bronx Defenders' lunch-sharing group that Einspanier heard about from a public defender friend, Lunch Bunch is a tribute to the sacrifices public servants make every day. The play's characters seek meaning and order in daily culinary minutiae amidst the failures and injustices of the systems threatening their clients' families, as the momentous (The Law) projects itself onto the mundane (their lunches). Einspanier's "charming and smart" (The New York Times, in a Critic's Pick review) play kindly exposes the quirks of its characters' coping mechanisms and communicates the dire circumstances their clients face.