Eric Bogosian

Eric Bogosian
Bogosian at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival
Born	(1953-04-24) April 24, 1953 Woburn, Massachusetts, United States
Occupation	Actor, playwright, monologuist, novelist, historian
Years active	1983–present
Spouse(s)	Jo Anne Bonney (1980–present)
Children	Harris Wolf Bogosian Travis Bogosian
Website	http://www.ericbogosian.com

Eric Bogosian (born April 24, 1953) is an American actor, playwright, monologuist, novelist and historian.

Personal life

Bogosian, an Armenian-American, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, the son of Edwina (née Jamgochian), a hairdresser and instructor, and Henry Bogosian, an accountant. He attended the University of Chicago before graduating from Oberlin College.

Career

Bogosian is an author and actor known for his plays Talk Radio and subUrbia as well as numerous one-man shows. In recent years he has starred on Broadway in Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still, published three novels, and was featured on Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Captain Danny Ross.

Solos

Between 1980 and 2000, six major solos written and performed by Eric Bogosian were produced Off-Broadway, garnering him three Obie Awards as well as the Drama Desk award. His first two solos, Men Inside and funHouse were presented at the New York Shakespeare Festival. His third, Drinking in America, was produced by American Place Theater. Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead and Wake Up and Smell the Coffee were all produced commercially Off-Broadway by Frederick Zollo.

In addition to Bogosian’s touring the United States and Europe, the solos have been produced featuring other actors in Argentina, Brazil, Italy and Poland.

Plays

Eric Bogosian is the author of six produced plays, including Talk Radio at the New York Shakespeare Festival, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and subsequently adapted to film by Oliver Stone, garnering Bogosian the prestigious Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear. In 2007 a Broadway revival of Talk Radio directed by Robert Falls starred Liev Schreiber. subUrbia, directed by Robert Falls and produced by Lincoln Center Theater, was adapted to film by Richard Linklater. Other titles include Griller (Goodman Theater); Humpty Dumpty (The McCarter); Red Angel (Williamstown Theater Festival) and 1+1 (New York Stage and Film). Bogosian’s one person drama, Notes from Underground has had several productions, most recently starring Jonathan Ames at Performance Space 122.

Stage

In addition to his many appearances in his solo work and starring in his play, Talk Radio, Bogosian has also starred in Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Last Days of Judas Iscariot directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman (LAByrinth) and Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still directed by Daniel Sullivan (Manhattan Theater Club/Broadway).

Film

Bogosian’s plays Talk Radio and subUrbia were adapted to film as was his solo, Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll. He has starred in several films including Talk Radio, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory and Wonderland. In addition he has been featured in films by such directors as Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Taylor Hackford, Atom Egoyan and Agnieszka Holland.

Television

In television, Bogosian is best known for his starring role as Captain Danny Ross in the series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. In addition, he has appeared as a guest star on dramas and in 1994 created with Steven Spielberg the series High Incident for ABC television. He portrayed Barney Greenwald, defense attorney, in the TV film The Caine Mutiny Court Martial. He also appeared in the episode "His Story" on Scrubs as Dr. Cox's therapist.

Books

Bogosian is the author of three novels published by Simon & Schuster: Mall, Wasted Beauty, and Perforated Heart. All of his dramatic work is in print, published by Theater Communication Group. In 2015, he published Operation Nemesis: The Secret Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide, a history of Operation Nemesis which involved a group of Armenian assassins who set out to avenge the deaths of the one and a half million victims of the Armenian Genocide.

Dance

Bogosian founded the dance series at The Kitchen. During his charter tenure there, he produced the first concerts in New York City by Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane, Karole Armitage and Molissa Fenley as well as dozens of other choreographers. In 2006 Bogosian acted as producer on the New York City Ballet’s documentary, Bringing Back Balanchine.

Awards

Bogosian is a Guggenheim fellow and the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1983	Born In Flames	CBS Technician	Film Debut
1984	Special Effects	Christopher Neville
1985	The Stuff	Supermarket Clerk	Uncredited
1988	Talk Radio	Barry Champlain
1991	Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll	Himself
1993	The Thief and the Cobbler	Phido	Voice
1994	Witch Hunt	Senator Larson Crockett
1995	Dolores Claiborne	Peter
1995	Under Siege 2: Dark Territory	Travis Dane
1996	Beavis and Butt-Head Do America	Old Faithful Ranger / White House Press Secretary / Strategic Air Command Lieutenant	Voice
1997	Office Killer	Peter Douglas	Uncredited
1997	Deconstructing Harry	Burt
1998	Safe Men	Edward Templeton, Sr.	Voice
1998	A Bright Shining Lie	Doug Elders
2000	Gossip	Professor Goodwin
2000	In The Weeds	Simon
2002	Igby Goes Down	Mr. Nice Guy
2002	Ararat	Rouben
2003	Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle	Alan Caulfield
2003	Wonderland	Eddie Nash
2004	King of the Corner	Rabbi Evelyn Fink
2004	Blade: Trinity	Bentley Tittle
2005	Heights	Henry
2008	Cadillac Records	Alan Freed
2010	Don't Go in the Woods	Producer
2014	Listen Up Philip	Narrator	Voice

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	Miami Vice	Zeke	"Milk Run"
1985	Tales from the Darkside	Junkie	"The Tear Collector"
1985	The Twilight Zone	Jackie Thompson	"Healer"
1986	Reading Rainbow	Conan the Librarian	"Alistair in Outer Space", voice
1986	Crime Story	Dee	2 episodes
1992-93	Law & Order	Gary Lowenthal	2 episodes
1993	The Larry Sanders Show	Stan Paxton	"Larry's Partner"
2000	+Welcome to New York	Robby	"The Crier"
2001	Third Watch	Lieutenant Lewis	"The Self-Importance of Being Carlos"
2003	Scrubs	Dr. Gross	"His Story"
2006-10	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Captain Danny Ross	Main Cast (Season 6-9)
2006	Love Monkey	Phil Leshing	5 episodes
2014	The Good Wife	Nelson Dubeck	3 episodes

Writing credits

• Men in Dark Times
• Scenes from the New World
• Sheer Heaven (1980)
• Men Inside (1981)
• The New World (1981)
• FunHouse (1983)
• Drinking in America (1986) (Winner of the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show)
• Talk Radio (1987) (also film version 1988)
• Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll (1990)
• Notes from the Underground (1993)
• Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead (1994)
• subUrbia (1994) (also film version 1996)
• Griller (1998)
• Mall (2000)
• Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (2000)
• Humpty Dumpty (2004)
• Non-profit Benefit
• Red Angel
• Wasted Beauty (2005)
• Perforated Heart (novel) (2009)
• General of Hot Desire (one act play)
• Operation Nemesis (2015)

External links

• Eric Bogosian at the Internet Movie Database
• Eric Bogosian at AllMovie