“As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.”
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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. Photo by Susan Johann
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“As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.”
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“I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.”
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“The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my...”
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“If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's be...”
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