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Eric Bogosian

On the New York stage, Eric Bogosian has attained singular achievement. In the last twenty years, Bogosian has authored five full-length plays and created six full-length solos for himself. For these, he has received three OBIE awards and a Drama Desk Award as well as being nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

His two best known plays, "Talk Radio", at the New York Shakespeare Festival and "subUrbia", at Lincoln Center Theatre, have been adapted to film. "Talk Radio", directed by Oliver Stone, garnered Bogosian the Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear award for his work as screenwriter and star. Richard Linklater directed the acclaimed film version of "subUrbia."

Bogosian's credits as playwright also include: "Griller" (Goodman Theater and Center Stage, Baltimore); "Humpty Dumpty" (McCarter Theater), "Red Angel" (Williamstown), "Bitter Sauce" (for The Acting Company).

His solos include Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead and Drinking in America. He has toured throughout the United States and Europe. The solos and plays are performed by acting companies internationally.

In the spring of June 2005 Bogosian published his second novel, Wasted Beauty. Earlier prose works include Mall and Notes from Underground.

Bogosian has made numerous appearances as a film and television actor, working with some of the leading directors of our time: Robert Altman, Paul Schrader, Woody Allen, Taylor Hackford and Atom Egoyan. He's starred in films as diverse as "Dolores Claiborne" to "Under Siege II." Recently he appeared as "Satan" in Stephen Adly Guirgis' play "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot" at The Joseph Papp Public Theater.

In 2004 Bogosian was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to continue his work in the theater.

Bogosian lives in New York with his wife, director Jo Bonney and their two children.