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February 09, 2010   

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Eric Bogosian

Show(s) (listed chronologically,
most recent first)
Position(s) Role(s) Theater Name Award Nominations Award(s) Won
subUrbia Playwright

Second Stage Theatre
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot Actor
Satan
Joseph Papp Public Theater/Martinson Hall
The Exonerated Actor

N/A
Theatres at 45 Bleecker/Bleecker Steet Theatre
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee Playwright

Jane Street Theatre
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee Actor
N/A
Jane Street Theatre
Love's Fire: Fresh Numbers by Seven American Playwrights Playwright

Joseph Papp Public Theater/Newman Theater
Suburbia Playwright

Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
Pounding Nails in the Floor Playwright

Minetta Lane Theatre 1993-1994 OBIE Award for Playwriting
Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll Playwright

Orpheum Theatre 1990 Obie Award, Special Citation
Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll Actor
N/A
Orpheum Theatre
Talk Radio Playwright

Joseph Papp Public Theater/Martinson Hall
Talk Radio Actor
Barry Champlain
Joseph Papp Public Theater/Martinson Hall
Drinking in America Playwright

American Place Theatre 1986 Obie Award, Playwriting
Drinking in America Actor
N/A
American Place Theatre
Fun House Playwright

Actors' Playhouse
Fun House Director

Actors' Playhouse
Fun House Designer

Actors' Playhouse
Biography    
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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