1977
"Careful Movement" - St. Mark's Poetry Project
"Slavery" - Franklin Furnace
Ran the dance program at The Kitchen
1978
"Garden" - Artists Space
"Heaven, Heaven, Heaven" - Eventworks, Boston
1979
"The Ricky Paul Show" - White Columns
1980
"Sheer Heaven" - The Kitchen/The Performing Garage
1981
"That Girl" - N.A.M.E., Chicago
"The New World" - Dance Theater Workshop
"Men Inside" - Solo performance - New York Shakespeare Festival
1982
"Voices of America" - Corps de Garde, Groningen, Holland
1983
"Advocate" - Artists Space
"FunHouse" - Solo performance, New York Shakespeare Festival
"FunHouse" - Actor's Playhouse, New York, Fred Zollo, prod.
"Special Effects"- (actor) written and directed by Larry Cohen
1984
"I Saw the Seven Angels" - The Kitchen (with Michael Zwack)
"Talk Radio" - Portland Center for the Visual Arts
"Miami Vice" - guest star
1985
"FunHouse" - Matrix Theater, Los Angeles, Joe Stern, prod. directed by Jo Bonney
"Twilight Zone" - "The Healer" - CBS - title role
1986
"Drinking in America" - American Place Theater, New York, directed & produced by Wynn Handman
"Blood on the Canvas" recorded with Frank Zappa
1987
"Drinking in America" - published by Vintage Books
"Talk Radio" - New York Shakespeare Festival, Joseph Papp, prod, directed by Fred Zollo
"Caine Mutiny Court Martial" - directed by Robert Altman
1988
"Talk Radio" - Universal Pictures, Ed Pressman, prod., directed by Oliver Stone
"Talk Radio" - published by Vintage Books
1989
"Talk Radio" wins the Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear
"Last Flight Out", (actor) NBC, Michael Mannheim, prod., Larry Elikin, director.
1990
"Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll" - Orpheum Theater, Fred Zollo, prod., Jo Bonney, director.
"Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll" - published by Harper Collins
"Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll" - recorded for SBK records
1991
"Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll" - film released by Avenue Entertainment
1992
"Law & Order" - guest star, Universal Television
1993
"Notes From Underground" - published by Hyperion
"Larry Sanders Show" - guest star, HBO
1994
"The Essential Bogosian" - published by TCG
"Pounding Nails in the Floor with my Forehead" - published by TCG
"subUrbia" - published by TCG
"subUrbia" - Lincoln Center Theater
"Pounding Nails in the Floor with my Forehead" - Minetta Lane Theater, directed by Jo Bonney
"Witchhunt" - (actor) HBO directed by Paul Schrader
"Dolores Claiborne" - (actor) Castle Rock directed by Taylor Hackford
1995
"Confessions of a Porn Star" - independent video release
"High Incident" - co-wrote pilot for Dreamworks
"Substance of Fire" for Miramax, directed by Dan Sullivan
"Under Siege 2" for Warner Bros. directed by Geoff Murphy
Bogosian web site established
1996
"subUrbia" (screenplay) for Castlerock, directed by Richard Linklater
"Beavis and Butthead Do America" voiceover for Paramount, directed by Mike Judge
"Office Killer" (cameo) directed by Cindy Sherman
"31 Ejaculations" - Performance at St. Mark's Poetry Project
"Griller" - Lincoln Center Director's Lab
1997
"Deconstructing Harry" - (actor) dir. Woody Allen
1998
"Griller" - Chicago's Goodman Theater, directed by Robert Falls
"Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead" - CD released by The Blackbird Recording Company
"A Bright Shining Lie" - (actor) directed by Terry George for HBO
"The Wedding Toast" - short directed by Bob Balaban for Showtime
"Bitter Sauce" - short play included in the volume "Love's Fire", published by William Morrow
1999
"Griller" - Baltimore's Centerstage, directed by David Warren
"Beggars and Choosers" - (actor) Showtime series
"Red Angel" - first and second readings, Lincoln Center Theatre
2000
"Wake Up and Smell the Coffee" - solo, The Jane St. Theater, directed by Jo Bonney
"Gossip" - (actor) directed by Davis Guggenheim
"Mall" - novel released by Simon & Schuster
"31 Ejaculations" - published on Salon.com
"Welcome to New York" - (actor) TV series
2001
"Blonde" - (actor) CBS TV miniseries
Recipient - NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights
"Shot in the Heart" - (actor) HBO Movie
"ThirdWatch" - (actor) TV series
2002
"Red Angel" - reading, Manhattan Theater Club
"Ararat" (actor) - directed by Atom Egoyan
"Wonderland" (actor) - directed by James Cox
"Humpty Dumpty" - McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton New Jersey
"Red Angel" - Williamstown Theater Festival, workshop production
2003
"Humpty Dumpty" - San Jose Repertory Theater, San Jose, California
"Exonerated" - Worked on City Ballet documentary of the company's trip to Saint Petersburg
"Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" (actor) - directed by McG
"Red Angel" - reading, Atlantic Theater Company
2004
Recipient of Guggenheim fellowship for theater
Humpty Dumpty - (play) published by Theater Communications Group
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee - (solo) on DVD, directed by Michael
Rauch
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee - (solo) published by Theater Communications Group
2005
""Humpty Dumpty and Other Plays" - published by Theater Communications group
Wasted Beauty - (novel) published by Simon & Schuster
2006
"Love Monkey" - (actor) TV series
"This Is Now!" - a fusion of text and sound with Elliot Sharp, at Merkin Hall
"subUrbia" - Second Stage Theater
Influences
Dave Emory, Brother Theodore, Jeff Weiss, Philip Roth, Cap'n Crunch, Steely Dan from Yokohama
Sounds Like
Lord Buckley
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1) A creator of monologues and solo shows. His solos have received three Obie awards, a Drama Desk Award and others. His shows have had extended runs Off-Broadway. His work is published by Theatre Communications Group.
2) A playwright, "Talk Radio" and "subUrbia" being the best known. He has written several others. His latest was "Griller" done at Center Stage in Baltimore.
3) He writes films. He has worked continuously on films for studios since 1986. He wrote the screenplays for the film versions of both his plays.
4) An actor. He starred in the play and film version of "Talk Radio" and has appeared or starred in over a dozen other films including: "Wonderland"; "Deconstructing Harry"; the "Law & Order" TV series; ABC's shortlived "Love Monkey"; "Beavis and Butthead Do America"; "Dolores Claiborne", "Under Siege 2" and the CBS miniseries "Blonde", based on the book by Joyce Carol Oates.
5) A novelist. His novels "Mall" and "Wasted Beauty" are published by Simon & Schuster
6) A performer who toured his solo shows around the U.S.
7) He was born April 24, 1953 and raised in Woburn, MA. He graduated from Oberlin College.
COMMONLY* HELD MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT ERIC BOGOSIAN AND HIS WORK
1) He is a comedian.
He is not a comedian. He never performed in comedy clubs, never did stand-up, did not hang out with comedians. He likes comedians though.
2) He is a performance artist.
He is not a performance artist. Performance art is performance made by visual artists. He is a writer and actor who spent time around the art scene and performed at places like The Kitchen, known for performance art, but he is not a performance artist.
3) "Talk Radio" was originally an on-stage solo.
"Talk Radio" was always a multi-character play. He wrote it and co-created it with the artist Tad Savinar.
4) Oliver Stone wrote the screenplay of the film "Talk Radio."
The screenplay was almost entirely based on the play and some biographical information about Alan Berg, a talk show host in Denver who was murdered in 1984 by white supremacists. Bogosian wrote the screenplay with help from Oliver Stone.
5) Bogosian wrote solos before he wrote plays.
Between 1977 and 1982, he wrote a dozen multi-character and ensemble performances and plays, including "The New World", "Scenes from the New World", "Sheer Heaven" and "Men in Dark Times". He began performing the solos because he was broke.
6) Bogosian is related to other people with the same or similar last names.
Not generally.
7) Bogosian is on drugs.
nope.
*Not that common. We figure about .25 percent or one in four hundred Americans are aware of this truly underground Armenian-American phenomenon.
Hi Eric! Keira here! Saying hi to one of the greatest actors in Law and Order CI! I hope you are well and hope you are good too. I would love to meet you in person! I would! When you were in Windsor with Chris Noth at the end of May I was in Toronto and on that day I say Sex and the City the movie twice. I hope Danny Ross comes back for Law and Order CI in the fall!
A belated Happy Birthday. I saw "Pounding Nails into the Floor with my Forehead" at the Bardavon Theatre in Poughkeepsie, NY, in the mid-nineties. Definitely the best solo-performance I've seen to date.
i once saw you in the Times Square subway, but i didn't say anything. also, I was in a production of TALK RADIO in (marist) college; I played Glen, the cat guy, and was mentioned in the newspaper review. did you really strangle Stuttering John?
