Talk Radio: The Playwright

Eric Bogosian
Eric Bogosian is best known for writing and starring in the play and the film adaptation of the 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, and Wake Up and Smell The Coffee) between 1980 and 2000, for which he received 3 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 including Robert Altman's The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Atom Egoyan's Ararat, Under Siege II and Wonderland. He currently stars as Captain Danny Ross in Law & Order: Criminal Intent on NBC. He made his Broadway debut on February 15, 2007 with the revised version of Talk Radio, starring Liev Schreiber, which received several Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations. He is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Eric is married to director Jo Bonney and lives in Manhattan with their two children. Visit www.ericbogosian.com.