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Eric Bogosian (born on April 24, 1953) is an American actor, playwright, performance artist, monologist, and novelist.

Biography

Early life

Bogosian, an Armenian American, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts. After graduating from Oberlin College, he moved to New York to pursue a career in theatre.

Career

As a performance artist, Bogosian has a very distinctive style. His one-man shows are a minimalist blend of dark comedy, geopolitical commentary, and social realism. When performing on stage, Bogosian generally appears as a series of characters, and uses only a microphone and a folding chair as props.

Bogosian has recently joined the cast of Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Captain Daniel Ross, replacing Jamey Sheridan's character, Captain James Deakins.

Some of his plays have recently been revived on and off-Broadway, with an updated version of his 1994 play SubUrbia at Second Stage Theatre and a new Broadway engagement of his highly successful Talk Radio, to star Liev Schreiber.

Actor

• Law & Order: Criminal Intent TV series (2006-present)
• Love Monkey TV series (2006)
• Wonderland (2003)
• Ararat (2002)
• Igby Goes Down (2001)
• Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (2001)
• Deconstructing Harry (1997)
• Beavis & Butthead Do America (1996) (Voice)
• Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
• Talk Radio (1988)
• Scrubs: Season Two (2005)

Writer

Feature films

• Talk Radio (1988)
• subUrbia (1996)

Solos

• Men Inside (1981)
• "FunHouse (1983)
• Drinking in America (1986)
• Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll (1990)
• Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead (1994)
• Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (2000)

Plays

• Men in Dark Times
• Scenes from the New World
• Sheer Heaven (1980)
• The New World (1981)
• Talk Radio (1988)
• Notes from the Underground (1993)
• subUrbia (1996)
• Griller (1996)
• Humpty Dumpty (2004)

Novels

• Mall (2000)
• Wasted Beauty (2005)

Trivia

His first appearance in a film was as a TV technician in Born in Flames (1983). His only line was, "What the fuck?".

External links

• Eric Bogosian's homepage
• Eric Bogosian's Myspace

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