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Eric Overmyer Biography (1951-)

Born September 25, 1951, in Boulder, CO; married Melissa Cooper, April 2, 1978 (divorced, 1987); married Ellen McElduff, 1991. Addresses: Office: William Morris Agency, 1350 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019.; Agent: American Conservatory Theater, 30 Grant Ave., San Francisco, CA 94108-5800.

Gender

Male

Occupation

Writer, producer

Birth Details

September 25, 1951

Boulder, Colorado

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Television Work
• Series
• Coproducer, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, NBC, 1987
• Producer, Sisters, NBC, 1991
• Consulting producer, Homicide: Life on the Street (also known as H:LOTS and Homicide), NBC, 1993-?
• Supervising producer, The Cosby Mysteries, NBC, 1994
• Executive producer, Gideon's Crossing, ABC, 2000-01
• WRITINGS
• Plays
• Native Speech, produced at Actors Theatre, Los Angeles, 1983-84, then Soho Repertory Theatre, New York City, 1991, published by Broadway Play Publishing (New York City), 1984, and in Wordplays 3, Performing ArtistJournal Publications
• On the Verge; or, The Geography of Yearning, produced at Center Stage, Baltimore, MD, 1985, then New York City, 1987, later London, 1989, published by Broadway Play Publishing, 1986
• (With Harry Newman) The Double Bass (based on a play by Patrick Sueskind), produced in New York City, 1986
• In a Pig's Valise (music by August Darnell), produced at Center Stage, 1986, then Second Stage Theatre, New York City, 1989, published by Broadway Play Publishing, 1989
• In Perpetuity throughout the Universe, produced in Baltimore and New York City, 1988, published by Broadway Play Publishing, 1988
• Hawker, published in Plays from New Dramatists, edited by Christopher Gould, Broadway Play Publishing, 1989
• Kafka's Radio, produced in New York City, 1990
• Mi Vida Loca, produced at City Center/Stage 2, New York City, 1990, published by Broadway Play Publishing, 1991
• Don Quixote de La Jolla, produced at Warren Theatre, La Jolla, CA,1990
• The Heliotrope Bouquet by Scott Joplin and Louis Chauvin, producedat Center Stage, 1991, then Playwrights Horizons, New York City, 1993
• Dark Rapture, produced in Seattle, WA, 1992, then at Kalita Humphreys Theatre, Dallas, TX, 1994
• Eric Overmyer: Collected Plays, published by Smith and Kraus, 1993
• (Book and lyrics) The Heliotrope Bouquet by Scott Joplin & Louis Chauvin, produced at Playwrights Horizons, New York City, 1993, publishedin Eric Overmyer: Collected Plays, published by Smith and Kraus, 1993
• The Dalai Lama Goes Three for Four, produced at Magic Theater Southside, San Francisco, CA 1995
• Amphitryon, published by Broadway Play Publishing, 1996
• Marriage of Figaro/Figaro Gets a Divorce, published by Broadway Play Publishing, 1996
• Alki (adaptation of Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen), published by Broadway Play Publishing, 1997
• Television Movies
• Rear Window, ABC, 1998
• Homicide: The Movie, NBC, 2000
• Television Miniseries
• Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, 2000
• Television Episodes
• St. Elsewhere, NBC, 1985-86
• The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, NBC, 1988-90
• Sisters, NBC, 1990-91
• Homicide: Life on the Street (also known as H:LOTS and Homicide), NBC, 1993-?
• New York News, CBS, 1995
• Gideon's Crossing, ABC, 2000-01
• Other
• Contributor of poems to magazines, including Paris Review and Shankpainter.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books

• Contemporary Dramatists, 6th ed., St. James Press, 1999