Eric Overmeyer

Chris Albers
Andrew Bergman
Eric Bogosian
Marshall Brickman
Nora Ephron
Tom Fontana
Richard LaGravenese
Warren Leight
Kenneth Lonergan
Jenny Lumet
Marsha Norman
Eric Overmeyer
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
David Simon
Susanna Styron
Jim Yoshimura

Michael Winship
Lowell Peterson
Ex-officio

Marsha Manns
Executive Director

Eric 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.