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38-586: Eric Michael Bogosian ( / b ə ˈ ɡ oʊ ʒ ən / ; born April 24, 1953) is an American actor, playwright, monologuist , novelist, and historian. Descended from Armenian-American immigrants, he grew up in Watertown and Woburn, Massachusetts , and attended the University of Chicago and Oberlin College . His play Talk Radio , was a finalist for the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama . Bogosian also wrote and starred in

76-539: A good diseuse is a capacious verbal (and visual) imagination, and an excellent oral delivery. Call these witty ladies Diseuses of the Heart and Lungs. I do." In the book The Guest List (2010) by Ethan Mordden , the art of the diseuse is defined as "a speaker of lyrics: in effect, one who uses the music to get to the words". Actresses who have been called noted diseuses over the years include: Oral interpretation , sometimes called dramatic reading or interpretative reading,

114-401: A monologist reciting a soliloquy , usually from a play, to entertain an audience. Passages in which characters orally reveal their thoughts are probably most associated with the works of William Shakespeare . Pulitzer Prize for Drama The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama , and Music . It is one of

152-589: A word which perfectly describes the performance of Ruth Draper , who comes to the Nixon next Thursday for the first time in several years to give a different program at each of her four performances here. "Speaking Portraits" and "Character Sketches" are the two terms most frequently applied to Miss Draper's work; and yet it is something more than that. "Diseuse" is the French word, but that is more readily applicable to an artist like Yvette Guilbert or Raquel Meller . Monologist

190-564: Is a term sometimes applied to an actor performing in a monodrama often with accompaniment of music . In a monodrama the lone player relays a story through the eyes of a central character, though at times may take on additional roles. In the modern era the more successful practitioners of this art have been actresses frequently referred to by the French term “diseuse”. Diseuse ( UK : / d iː ˈ z ɜː z / , US : / d iː ˈ z uː z / ) French for "teller", also called talkers, storytellers, dramatic-singers or dramatic-talkers

228-519: Is a term, at least as used on the English-speaking stage, that appears to date to the last decade of the 19th century. The early uses of “diseuse” as a theatrical term in the American press seem to coincide with Yvette Guilbert’s tour of New York City in the mid-1890s. In a February 1896 article on Guilbert, Cosmopolitan Magazine described the term as a "newly-coined and specific title". Diseuse

266-542: Is best known for his starring role as Captain Danny Ross in the series Law & Order: Criminal Intent . In addition, he has appeared as a guest star on dramas and in 1994 created with Steven Spielberg the series High Incident for ABC television . He portrayed Barney Greenwald, defense attorney, in the TV film The Caine Mutiny Court Martial . He also appeared in the episode "His Story" on Scrubs as Dr. Cox 's therapist and

304-551: Is in print, published by Theater Communication Group . In 2015, Little, Brown published Operation Nemesis: The Secret Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide , a history of Operation Nemesis , which involved a group of Armenian assassins who set out to avenge the deaths of the one and a half million victims of the Armenian genocide . Bogosian founded the dance series at The Kitchen . During his charter tenure there, he produced

342-550: Is the feminine form of the French word diseur "teller", a derivative of dire "to say, to tell", which came from Latin dīcere . Few male actors became noteworthy performing solely as a dramatic monologist, though many well known actors have played in monodramas over their careers. In the December 21, 1935, edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , an entertainment columnist wrote: The English language does not contain

380-449: Is the oral staging of a work of literature, prose or poetry, by a person who reads rather than memorizes the material. Typically they are performed by solo artists who – unlike players in a monodrama – do not assume or tell the story through any one character, but do so instead with oral nuances to bring the story alive with their interpretation of how the creator of the piece intended the story to be told. The term soliloquist can apply to

418-399: Is wholly inadequate. The word "Diseuse" really means "an artist in talking" so that may be the real term to use in connection with Miss Draper. The publication Theatre World wrote in a 1949 piece: "In our time we have fallen under the spell of three remarkable women practising the art of the diseuse— Ruth Draper , Cornelia Otis Skinner , and Joyce Grenfell . Each of these great artists has

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456-626: The Safdie brothers ' film Uncut Gems (2019). Bogosian has also been involved in New York City ballet production, and has written several novels as well as the historical nonfiction Operation Nemesis (2015), based on the program to assassinate perpetrators of the Armenian genocide . He is a three-time Obie Award and a Drama Desk Award winner, and two-time fellow of the National Endowment for

494-782: The Tony Award for Best Musical Ten musicals have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, roughly one per decade from the 1930s to the 2020s¹. They are: George and Ira Gershwin 's Of Thee I Sing (1932), Rodgers and Hammerstein 's South Pacific (1950), Bock & Harnick 's Fiorello! (1960), Frank Loesser 's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1962), Marvin Hamlisch , Edward Kleban , James Kirkwood, Jr. , and Nicholas Dante 's A Chorus Line (1976), Stephen Sondheim 's and James Lapine 's Sunday in

532-474: The University of Chicago before graduating from Oberlin College . Bogosian is an author and actor known for his plays Talk Radio and subUrbia , as well as numerous one-man shows. In 1983, early in his career, Bogosian appeared in the music video for Jim Capaldi's song "That's Love". In recent years he has starred on Broadway in Donald Margulies ' Time Stands Still , published three novels, and

570-732: The 100monologues.com series with Travis Bogosian and Good Baby Films. Bogosian has won the Obie Award three times as well as the Drama Desk Award . He received the prestigious "Silver Bear " at the 1989 Berlin Film Festival for his work on Talk Radio . He is a 2004 Guggenheim fellow and the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts . In 1980, he married Jo Anne Bonney , with whom he has two sons, Harry and Travis Bogosian. Monologuist A dramatic monologist

608-642: The 1988 film adaptation , for which he won a Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival . As an actor, he has appeared in plays, films, and television series throughout his career. His television roles include Captain Danny Ross in Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2006–10), Lawrence Boyd on Billions (2017–18), Daniel Molloy on Interview with the Vampire (2022–present), and Gil Eavis on Succession (2018–23). He also starred as Arno in

646-699: The Arts . Eric Bogosian ( Armenian : Էրիք Պօղոսեան ) was born in Boston, Massachusetts , the son of Edwina (née Jamgochian), a hairdresser and instructor, and Henry Bogosian, an accountant. He spent his early childhood in Watertown, Massachusetts , home to a large Armenian-American community which included his grandparents, survivors of the Armenian genocide . His family moved to nearby Woburn in 1960. He became interested in theater while attending Woburn Memorial High School , and would later base his play subUrbia on his youth in Woburn's Four Corners neighborhood. He attended

684-531: The Floor with My Forehead and Wake Up and Smell the Coffee were all produced commercially Off-Broadway by Frederick Zollo . Bogosian is also the author of six produced plays, including 1987's Talk Radio . Talk Radio was a finalist for Pulitzer Prize for Drama , but lost to Alfred Uhry 's Driving Miss Daisy . In 2007, a Broadway revival of Talk Radio directed by Robert Falls starred Liev Schreiber . subUrbia

722-478: The Park with George (1985), Jonathan Larson 's Rent (1996), Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt 's Next to Normal (2010), Lin-Manuel Miranda 's Hamilton (2016), and Michael R. Jackson 's A Strange Loop (2020). Though it did not win for Drama, Oklahoma! was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize in 1944. Of note, South Pacific won the 1950 Pulitzer for Drama but its source material, James Michener's Tales of

760-558: The Prize to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , which the jury considered the weakest of the five shortlisted nominees ("amateurishly constructed... from the stylistic points of view annoyingly pretentious"), instead of Clifford Odets ' The Flowering Peach (their preferred choice) or The Bad Seed , their second choice. Edward Albee 's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was selected for the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Drama by that award's committee. However,

798-541: The South Pacific , also won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Sunday in the Park with George and Next to Normal are the only musicals that won the Pulitzer Prize and did not also win the Tony Award for Best Musical ; the latter won the authors Tonys for Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations . Of Thee I Sing opened before the Tony Awards existed. The award goes to the playwright, although production of

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836-517: The calendar year that governed most other Pulitzer Prizes. The drama jury, which consists of one academic and four critics, attends plays in New York and in regional theaters. The Pulitzer board can overrule the jury's choice; in 1986 , the board's opposition to the jury's choice of the CIVIL warS resulted in no award being given. In 1955 Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. pressured the prize jury into presenting

874-466: The committee's selection was overruled by the award's advisory board, the trustees of Columbia University , because of the play's then-controversial use of profanity and sexual themes. Had Albee been awarded, he would be tied with Eugene O'Neill for the most Pulitzer Prizes for Drama (four). In its first 106 years to 2022, the Drama Pulitzer was awarded 91 times; none were given in 15 years and it

912-745: The first concerts in New York City by Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane , Karole Armitage and Molissa Fenley as well as dozens of other choreographers. In 2006, Bogosian acted as producer on the New York City Ballet 's documentary, Bringing Back Balanchine . In addition to working with Jo Bonney and Tad Savinar, other notable collaborations include with Michael Zwack ("I Saw the Seven Angels"); Joe Hannan ("The Ricky Paul Show"); Glenn Branca ("The New World"); Robert Longo ("American Vanity"); Ann Magnuson (sketches at Folk City ) and Elliott Sharp ("This Is Now!"). Since 2016 Bogosian has been filming

950-497: The gift of crowding the stage with imaginary figures who become so vivid as to be practically visible, but as all of these artists happen to be members of the fair sex it could be assumed that they possess a magic denied the mere male of the theatre." The article suggests that Sid Field was an actor of comparable talents. Joyce Grenfell wrote in Darling Ma: Joyce Grenfell's Letters to her Mother 1932–1944 , "What makes

988-752: The musical in question opened in New York during either the preceding calendar year or the preceding Broadway season. The following individuals received two or more Pulitzer Prizes for Drama: The following individuals received two or more nominations: Lynn Nottage is the only female playwright to win the prize twice. She and August Wilson are the only playwrights of color to accomplish this feat. Jon Robin Baitz, Gina Gionfriddo, John Guare, A.R. Gurney, Richard Greenberg, Tina Howe, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Stephen Karam, Sarah Ruhl and Jeanine Tesori have each been named finalists twice without winning. David Henry Hwang

1026-519: The original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year. (No Drama prize was given, however, so that one was inaugurated in 1918, in a sense.) It recognizes a theatrical work staged in the U.S. during the preceding calendar year. Until 2007, eligibility for the Drama Prize ran from March 1 to March 2 to reflect the Broadway "season" rather than

1064-421: The play is also taken into account. In the case of a musical being awarded the prize, the composer, lyricist and book writer are generally the recipients. An exception to this was the first Pulitzer ever awarded to a musical: when Of Thee I Sing won in 1932, book authors George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, as well as lyricist Ira Gershwin, were cited as the winners, while composer George Gershwin's contribution

1102-415: The vampire's allure that has persisted for decades. "I love the eroticism of vampire stuff. I love these movies and plays more than anything. I petitioned Francis Ford Coppola to be in his Dracula , but unfortunately, I wasn't a big enough star," Bogosian shrugs. "But he did invite me to the set, and I got to hang around with him and look at all the storyboards for that movie. That was really exciting." As

1140-485: The years went on, Bogosian's fascination crystallized into a specific desire for his career: One way or another, he was determined to play a vampire. "It's just always on my mind," Bogosian smiles. "I think there's something about the power of a vampire. And hey, the biting the neck stuff is just sexy to me, so that doesn't hurt." Bogosian is the author of three novels published by Simon & Schuster : Mall , Wasted Beauty , and Perforated Heart . All of his dramatic work

1178-620: Was adapted to film in 1988 by Oliver Stone , garnering Bogosian the prestigious Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear . The film version of subUrbia (1996) was directed by Richard Linklater . His play Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll was adapted to film in 1991. He has appeared in several other films including Under Siege 2: Dark Territory and Wonderland . In addition, he has been featured in films by such directors as Woody Allen , Robert Altman , Taylor Hackford , Atom Egoyan , and Agnieszka Holland . In television, Bogosian

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1216-827: Was directed by Robert Falls and produced by Lincoln Center Theater in 1994. Other titles include Griller ( Goodman Theater ); Humpty Dumpty (The McCarter); Red Angel ( Williamstown Theater Festival ) and 1+1 (New York Stage and Film). Bogosian's one-man drama, Notes from Underground has had several productions, most recently starring Jonathan Ames at Performance Space 122 . In addition to his many appearances in his solo work and starring in his play Talk Radio , Bogosian has also starred in Stephen Adly Guirgis ' The Last Days of Judas Iscariot directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman ( LAByrinth ) and Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still directed by Daniel Sullivan ( Manhattan Theater Club /Broadway). Bogosian's play Talk Radio

1254-703: Was featured on Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Captain Danny Ross . Between 1980 and 2000, six major solos written and performed by Bogosian were produced Off-Broadway , garnering him three Obie Awards as well as the Drama Desk award. His first two solos, Men Inside and funHouse were presented at the New York Shakespeare Festival . His third, Drinking in America , was produced by American Place Theater. Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll , Pounding Nails in

1292-532: Was first disclosed, five musicals have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. They are: Lee Breuer and Bob Telson 's The Gospel at Colonus (1985); Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes ' In the Heights (2009); Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron 's Fun Home (2014); Taylor Mac 's A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (2017); and David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori 's Soft Power (2020). ¹All listed dates are Prize years. Generally,

1330-402: Was never split. The most recipients of the prize in one year was five, when Michael Bennett , James Kirkwood, Jr. , Nicholas Dante , Marvin Hamlisch , and Edward Kleban shared the 1976 prize for the musical A Chorus Line . † marks winners of the Tony Award for Best Play . * marks winners of the Tony Award for Best Musical . ≠ marks nominees of the Tony Award for Best Play or

1368-461: Was overlooked by the committee. The reason given was that the Pulitzer Prize for Drama is a dramatic award, and not a musical one. However, by 1950 the Pulitzer committee included composer Richard Rodgers as a recipient when South Pacific won the award, in recognition of music as an integral and important part of the theatrical experience. Additionally, since 1983, when the identity of finalists

1406-473: Was particular important to Bogosian as he was a long term fan of vampire genre- "When I first came to New York as a young theatre intern, Frank Langella was doing Dracula on Broadway. I was there with a girlfriend, and we were probably in the last row of the balcony. And I felt like he was breathing down my neck. That power, that energy that he could create, thrilled me." That titillating thrill embedded itself deep into Bogosian, awakening an inclination toward

1444-545: Was recurring character Lawrence Boyd in Billions ' second season. In 1993, Bogosian played the role of Stan Paxton, Larry's ex-standup partner in the series 'The Larry Sanders Show'. He has also appeared in HBO's show Succession as Senator Gil Eavis, and in the main cast of the AMC show Interview with the Vampire as Daniel Molloy, the reporter who interviews the titular vampire. That role

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