Eric Overmyer

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Eric Overmyer
71st Annual Peabody Awards
Born
Eric Ellis Overmyer

(1951-09-25) September 25, 1951 (age 72)
Boulder, Colorado, U.S.
Occupation(s)Writer, television producer
SpouseEllen McElduff

Eric Ellis Overmyer (born September 25, 1951) is an American writer and producer. He has written and/or produced numerous TV shows, including

The Man in the High Castle.[1]

Biography

He graduated as a theater major from Reed College in 1973.[2] He credits his time at the college for helping him find and claim his identity as a writer.[2]

Overmyer wrote for the NBC crime drama Homicide: Life on the Street from 1996 to 1999. He joined the crew as a writer for the fourth season. He became a consulting producer for the sixth season in fall 1997. He returned as a supervising producer for the seventh and final season in fall 1998. The series was based on the book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon. Simon also worked as a writer and producer on the later seasons on the show and the two became friends.[3]

Overmyer joined the crew of Law & Order as a consulting producer and writer for the twelfth season in 2001. He became a co-executive producer for the later part of the season. He remained in this role until he was promoted to executive producer for the fifteenth season in fall 2004. He left the show after the conclusion of the fifteenth season.

Poster for a Hedgerow Theatre Company production of On the Verge, by Eric Overmyer

Overmyer joined the crew of

Edgar Award for Best Television Feature/Mini-Series Teleplay for their work on the fourth season.[9][10]

Overmyer collaborated with Simon again on the HBO drama Treme. They co-created the series which is about post-Katrina New Orleans.[11] Overmyer lives part-time in New Orleans and used his experience in navigating the "ornate oral tradition" of the city's stories.[11] The show focuses on a working-class neighborhood and is smaller in scope than The Wire.[3][11] Production for the first season began in November 2009 and Overmyer worked on the show until it concluded with a fourth season in 2013.

In the hiatus between the third and fourth seasons of Treme Overmyer joined the crew of the HBO drama series Boardwalk Empire. He served as a co-executive producer for the fourth season until production recommenced on Treme. On Boardwalk Empire Overmyer reunited with his colleague from The Wire Dennis Lehane. He also worked with the writers Steve Turner and Jennifer Ames.

Overmyer developed the Amazon original series Bosch based on the series of novels by Michael Connelly. The project reunited him with actors Jamie Hector and Lance Reddick. A pilot was produced in 2013. The show was ordered to series after being released through the Amazon streaming service in February 2014. For his writing staff Overmyer assembled several writers he had worked with before - Pelecanos from The Wire and Treme, Turner and Ames from Boardwalk Empire and William N. Fordes & Tom Smuts from Law & Order. The first season was shot throughout 2014 and released on February 13, 2015.

Published plays

His

Broadway Play Publishing Inc.
and include:

Awards

Year Award Category Result Work Notes
2008
Writers Guild of America Award
 Outstanding Dramatic Series Won[10]
season 4
 Shared with
David Mills, George Pelecanos, Richard Price, David Simon and William F. Zorzi
2007
Edgar Award
 Best Television Feature/Mini-Series Teleplay Won[9] Shared with Ed Burns, Kia Corthron, Dennis Lehane, David Mills, George Pelecanos, Richard Price, David Simon and William F. Zorzi

References

  1. ^ HBO. "Eric Overmyer on Treme". Retrieved May 25, 2010.
  2. ^ a b "Reed College Notable Alumni - The Independents". Reed College. 2007. Archived from the original on August 13, 2007. Retrieved October 14, 2007.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Exclusive David Simon Q&A". AOL. 2007. Retrieved October 14, 2007.
  4. ^ "Season 4 crew". HBO. 2007. Archived from the original on October 12, 2007. Retrieved October 14, 2007.
  5. ^ "Episode guide - episode 43 Margin of Error". HBO. 2006. Retrieved October 9, 2006.
  6. The Wire
    . Season 4. Episode 6. HBO.
  7. ^ "Episode guide - episode 47 Misgivings". HBO. 2006. Archived from the original on March 14, 2007. Retrieved March 29, 2007.
  8. ^ Ed Burns, Eric Overmyer (writers) (November 19, 2004). "Misgivings". The Wire. Season 4. Episode 10. HBO.
  9. ^ a b "Curtains Receives Edgar Award Nomination". Theatre Mania. Archived from the original on December 16, 2008.
  10. ^ a b "2008 Writers Guild Awards Television & Radio Nominees Announced". WGA. 2007. Archived from the original on December 19, 2007. Retrieved December 13, 2007.
  11. ^ a b c Margaret Talbot (2007). "Stealing Life". The New Yorker. Retrieved October 14, 2007.

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