Eric Bogosian

(Richard Ehrlich) Eric is the author of three novels, several films and numerous award-winning works for the theater. As an actor he has starred onstage as well as on film and television.

Bogosian’s best known work is Talk Radio in which he starred Off-Broadway and in the Oliver Stone film of the same name. In 2006, the play was brought to Broadway, garnering Tony^® nominations for the play and for Liev Schreiber, who starred. For the original stage version, Bogosian was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and for the film he received the prestigious Berlin Film Festival’s Silver Bear. In addition to Talk Radio, Bogosian is the author of several plays, including subUrbia, which was produced by Lincoln Center Theater in 1994. The play was adapted to the screen by Richard Linklater and revived Off-Broadway by Second Stage with an updated script in 2006. His most recent play, 1+1 was produced by New York Stage & Film in 2008. Bogosian is also well-known for the six Off-Broadway solos he wrote for himself between 1980 and 2000. For these he was awarded three OBIE awards as well as the Drama Desk. The solos, including Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll and Pounding Nails in the Floor with my Forehead are produced around the world and have become a mainstay of the American theater repertory.

Bogosian is also the author of three novels and a novella. His latest, Perforated Heart was published in the spring of 2009 by Simon & Schuster. His first novel, Mall, is currently being adapted as a film.

Beyond performing in his own solos and plays, Bogosian most recently starred in Stephen Adly Guirgis’s The Last Days of Judas Iscariot directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman at LAByrinth Theater. Onscreen, Bogosian has been featured in films by Paul Schrader, Woody Allen, Oliver Stone, Robert Altman, Taylor Hackford, Atom Egoyan and Mike Judge. He is best known on film for his starring roles in his own Talk Radio, as well as the action film, Under Siege II and Wonderland. On television, he recently co-starred as Captain Danny Ross in the long-running series, Law & Order: CI.

Bogosian has generated a wide range of work over the past 30 years. As the producer and founder of the dance series Dancing in the Kitchen he introduced such choreographers as Bill T. Jones and Karole Armitage to New York audiences. In 1986 Bogosian collaborated with Frank Zappa to produce the album, Blood on the Canvas. Bogosian created the television series High Incident with Stephen Spielberg for ABC television and supervised the production of the film Bringing Back Balanchine for the New York City Ballet. With composer Elliot Sharp, he created the full-length duet, This is Now! which was produced at Merkin Hall.

Bogosian lives in New York City with director Jo Bonney.

Photo by Susan Johann