Overmyer, Eric 1951-

PERSONAL

Full name, Eric McElduff Overmyer; born September 25, 1951, in Boulder, CO; married Melissa Cooper, April 2, 1978 (divorced, 1987); married Ellen McElduff (an actress), 1991. Education: Reed College, B.A., 1976; attended Florida State University, 1977, and Brooklyn College (City University of New York), 1979-81; trained for the stage at the Asolo Conservatory Program, 1977.

Addresses:

Agent—William Morris Agency, One William Morris Place, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career:

Writer and producer. Playwrights Horizons, New York City, literary manager, 1981-85; Center Stage, Baltimore, MD, associate artist, 1984-91; Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, CT, associate artist, 1991-92. Yale University, visiting associate professor, 1991-92; resident writer at Squaw Valley Writers Conference for Poetry, Fine Arts Work Center for Poetry, Provincetown, MA, and River Arts Repertory, Woodstock, NY.

Member:

Writers Guild of America, East, Dramatists Guild.

Awards, Honors:

Le Comte du Nouy Award, playwriting, 1986; McKnight fellow, 1986; fellow of New York Foundation for the Arts, 1986, and National Endowment for the Arts and Rockefeller Foundation, both 1987; Humanitas Prize nomination, 60 minute category, 1998, for "Mercy," an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street; Writers Guild of America Award nomination, best episodic drama, 1999, for "Saigon Rose," an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street; Edgar Allan Poe Award nomination (with others; also known as Edgar Award nomination or MWA Edgar Allan Poe Award nomination), best television feature or miniseries, Mystery Writers of America, 1999, for Rear Window; Emmy Award nomination (with others), outstanding writing for a miniseries or a movie, 2000, for Homicide: The Movie; Emmy Award nomination (with others), outstanding drama series, 2002, for Law & Order; Edgar Allan Poe Award (with others; also known as Edgar Award or MWA Edgar Allan Poe Award), best television feature/miniseries teleplay, 2007, for season four of The Wire.

CREDITS

Television Work; Series:

Story editor, St. Elsewhere, NBC, 1986-87.

Coproducer, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, NBC, 1987-88, Lifetime, 1989-91.

Producer, Sisters, NBC, 1990-91.

Creative consultant, Birdland, ABC, 1993-94.

Supervising producer, The Cosby Mysteries, NBC, 1994-95.

Consultant, Central Park West (also known as CPW), CBS, 1995.

Co-executive producer, Prince Street, NBC, 1997.

Producer, Homicide: Life on the Street (also known as H: LOTS and Homicide), NBC, 1997-98.

Supervising producer, Homicide: Life on the Street (also known as H: LOTS and Homicide), NBC, 1998-99.

Executive producer, Gideon's Crossing, ABC, 2000-2001.

Producer, Law & Order: Criminal Intent (also known as Law & Order: CI), NBC, 2001.

Co-executive producer (New York), Law & Order (also known as Law & Order Prime), NBC, 2002-2004.

Show runner, Law & Order (also known as Law & Order Prime), NBC, 2003-2005.

Executive producer, Law & Order (also known as Law & Order Prime), NBC, 2004-2005.

Consulting producer, The Wire (also known as A escuta, Drot, Langalla, Oi dioktes tou eglimatos, and Sur ecoute), HBO, 2006-2007.

Executive producer and show runner, Close to Home (also known as American Crime, Fiscal Chase, Juste cause, and Justicia cerrada), CBS, 2006-2007.

Co-executive producer, New Amsterdam, Fox, 2008.

Worked on other projects.

Television Work; Movies:

Co-executive producer, Homicide: The Movie (also known as Homicide: Life Everlasting), NBC, 2000.

Television Work; Episodic:

Producer, "Bones of Contention," Homicide: Life on the Street (also known as H: LOTS and Homicide), NBC, 1999.

Consulting producer, "Armed Forces," Law & Order (also known as Law & Order Prime), NBC, 2001.

Consulting producer, "Enemy Within," Law & Order: Criminal Intent (also known as Law & Order: CI), NBC, 2001.

Consulting producer, "The Fire This Time," Law & Order (also known as Law & Order Prime), NBC, 2001.

Consulting producer, "Sacrifice," Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (also known as Law & Order's Sex Crimes, Law & Order: SVU, and Special Victims Unit), NBC, 2001.

Consulting producer, "3 Dawg Night," Law & Order (also known as Law & Order Prime), NBC, 2001.

Television Work; Pilots:

Executive producer, Treme, HBO, 2009.

WRITINGS

Writings for the Stage:

Native Speech, produced at Actors Theatre, Los Angeles, 1983-84, then Soho Repertory Theatre, New York City, 1991, published by Broadway Play Publishing, 1984, and in Wordplays 3, Performing Artist Journal (PAJ) Publications.

On the Verge; or, The Geography of Yearning (also known as On the Verge), produced in a tour of U.S. cities, including productions at Center Stage, Baltimore, MD, 1985, and Hartford Stage Company, Hartford, CT, 1986, produced by the Acting Company, John Houseman Theatre, New York City, 1987, later London, 1989, and other venues, including Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, CT, 1991, Arena Stage, Fichandler Stage, Washington, DC, 2006, and Victory Gardens Greenhouse, Chicago, IL, 2008, published by Broadway Play Publishing, 1986.

(With Harry Newman) The Double Bass (based on a play by Patrick Suskind), produced in New York City, 1986.

Author of book and lyrics, In a Pig's Valise (musical; music by August Darnell; also known as A Pig's Valise), 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.

Don Quixote de La Jolla (inspired by the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes), produced at the La Jolla Playhouse, Warren Theatre, La Jolla, CA, 1990.

Kafka's Radio, produced in New York City, 1990.

Mi Vida Loca, produced at City Center Stage II, New York City, 1990, published by Broadway Play Publishing, 1991.

The Heliotrope Bouquet by Scott Joplin and Louis Chauvin (also known as The Heliotrope Bouquet), produced at Center Stage, 1991, then Playwrights Horizons, New York City, 1993.

Dark Rapture, produced in Seattle, WA, 1992, Kalita Humphreys Theatre, Dallas, TX, 1994, and Second Stage Theatre, 1996.

Author of book and lyrics, The Heliotrope Bouquet by Scott Joplin & Louis Chauvin, produced at Playwrights Horizons, New York City, 1993, published in Eric Overmyer: Collected Plays, published by Smith and Kraus, 1993.

Eric Overmyer: Collected Plays, published by Smith and Kraus, 1993.

The Dalai Lama Goes Three for Four, produced at Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA, 1995.

Amphitryon, Classic Stage Company, New York City, 1995, published by Broadway Play Publishing, 1996.

Marriage of Figaro/Figaro Gets a Divorce, published by Broadway Play Publishing, 1996.

Alki (adaptation of the play Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen), published by Broadway Play Publishing, 1997.

Additional text, The Green Bird (musical), Cort Theatre, New York City, 2000.

Teleplays; Miniseries:

Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, CBS, 2000.

Teleplays; with Others; Movies:

(With Larry Gross) Rear Window (based on a screenplay by John Michael Hayes and a short story by Cornell Woolrich), ABC, 1998.

(With Tom Fontana and James Yoshimura) Homicide: The Movie (also known as Homicide: Life Everlasting), NBC, 2000.

Teleplays; with Others; Episodic:

St. Elsewhere, NBC, multiple episodes in 1986 and 1987.

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, multiple episodes, NBC, 1988, Lifetime, 1989.

"Deja Vu All Over Again," Sisters, NBC, 1991.

"A Thousand Sprinkles," Sisters, NBC, 1991.

"Broadway Joe," New York News, CBS, 1995.

Homicide: Life on the Street (also known as H: LOTS and Homicide), NBC, multiple episodes, 1996-99.

"They Say It's Your Birthday," The Beat, UPN, 2000.

Law & Order (also known as Law & Order Prime), NBC, multiple episodes, 2001-2005.

"Anti-Thesis," Law & Order: Criminal Intent (also known as Law & Order: CI), NBC, 2002.

"Margin of Error," The Wire (also known as A escuta, Drot, Langalla, Oi dioktes tou eglimatos, and Sur ecoute), HBO, 2006.

"Misgivings," The Wire (also known as A escuta, Drot, Langalla, Oi dioktes tou eglimatos, and Sur ecoute), HBO, 2006.

"Eminent Domain," Close to Home (also known as American Crime, Fiscal Chase, Juste cause, and Justicia cerrada), CBS, 2007.

"Reclassified," New Amsterdam, Fox, 2008.

"Soldier's Heart," New Amsterdam, Fox, 2008.

Wrote teleplays for other programs, including Central Park West (also known as CPW), CBS; Dellaventura, CBS; and Gideon's Crossing, ABC; wrote the teleplay for "Drugs, Lies and Videotape," an unaired episode of Prince Street, NBC.

Teleplays; with Others; Pilots:

(With David Simon) Treme, HBO, 2009.

Author of other pilots for television.

Screenplays:

At the Movies I (short film), Airstream Films, 1994.

Poetry:

Contributor of poems to periodicals, including Paris Review and Shankpainter.

OTHER SOURCES

Books:

Contemporary Dramatists, fifth edition, St. James Press, 1999.