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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American drama (dramatic works by one author), Drama, Play script, Drama (dramatic works by one author), Fiction, Monologues, Theatre, American Monologues, American drama, Families, Social classes, DRAMA / American, Drug addicts, Fiction, general, New York Times reviewed, New york (n.y.), fiction, Novelists, Plays, Short stories, Social life and customs, Theatro, Adaptations, American literature, Anthology, Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923ID Numbers
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- Amazon ID: B000APCHNS
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- Integrated Authority File (GND): 137275293
- IMDb: nm0091899
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- Library of Congress Names: n85274577
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- BOGOSIAN
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- Bogosian, Eric
- Eric Michael Bogosian
- Bogosian, Eric Michael
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