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| Eric Bogosian |
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| Biography |
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Eric Bogosian is best known for
writing and starring in the play and
the film adaptation of that play,
Talk Radio (NYSF – 1987). For
this work he was a Pulitzer Prize
finalist and received the Berlin Film
Festival “Silver Bear Award.” He is
also well known for his six solo
performances Off-Broadway (Men
Inside, FunHouse,
Drinking in America,
Sex, Drugs, Rock &
Roll, Pounding Nails in the
Floor With My Forehead, Wake Up
and Smell The Coffee) between 1980
and 2000, for which he received three
Obie awards. In addition to Talk
Radio, Bogosian has written a
number of full-length plays including
suburbia (LCT), Griller
(Goodman), Red Angel
(Williamstown Theater Festival),
Humpty Dumpty (McCarter). He is
the author of two novels, Mall
and Wasted Beauty and a
novella, Notes from
Underground. As an actor, Bogosian
has appeared in numerous films and
television programs, starring in
Robert Altman’s The Caine Mutiny
Court Martial, Atom Egoyan’s
Ararat, Under Siege II
and Wonderland. He currently
stars in “Law & Order: Criminal
Intent” on NBC. A new production of
Talk Radio starring Liev
Schreiber and directed by Robert
Falls, is currently on Broadway at the
Longacre Theatre and marks Bogosian’s
Broadway debut. He is married to
director Jo Bonney.
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