Eric Overmyer
Eric Overmyer is a playwright and a television writer and producer. He graduated as a theater major from Reed College in 1973. His plays include ON THE VERGE, THE HELIOTROPE BOUQUET, IN A PIG’S VALISE, DON QUIXOTE DE LA JOLLA, NATIVE SPEECH, MI VIDA LOCA, IN PERPETUITY THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE, and DARK RAPTURE. Mr Overmyer has written extensively for television, including for Homicide: Life on the Street, The Wire and Law & Order, and has been nominated for two Emmy Awards. He received an Edgar Award for the television feature Rear Window. Overmyer was also a co-creator of the HBO series Treme, about musicians in post-Katrina New Orleans.
Titles
- Alki
- Amphitryon
- Dark Rapture
- Don Quixote de La Jolla
- Duke Kahanamoku vs The Surfnappers
- Figaro/Figaro
- The Heliotrope Bouquet by Scott Joplin and Louis Chauvin
- In a Pig's Valise
- In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe
- Mi Vida Loca
- Native Speech
- On the Verge or The Geography of Yearning
- Plays by Eric Overmyer