Eric OvermeyerEric Overmyer is a playwright and a television writer/producer. In television, he has worked on numerous shows, including St. Elsewhere, Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order, The Wire and New Amsterdam.
Graduating as a theatre major from Reed College, Overmyer began his career as a playwright. His plays include “On The Verge,” “The Heliotrope Bouquet,” “In a Pig's Valaise,” “Don Quixote de la Jolla,” “Native Speech,” “Mi Vida Loca,” and “In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe.”
Overmyer has been nominated for two Emmy Awards and received an Edgar Award for the television feature Rear Window.
Currently, Overmyer is a co-creator of Treme, a new TV series about musicians in post-Katrina New Orleans. Treme is scheduled to premier on HBO in fall 2010.
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