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Eric Overmyer Dies: 'Bosch' Creator, 'Treme' Co-Creator
& 'Homicide' Writer-Producer Was 74
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Eric Overmyer, a veteran TV writer-producer and playwright known for
his work on Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order, The Wire, Treme,
Bosch and Bosch: Legacy, died March 16 after an illness. He was 74.

A theater major, Overmyer began his career as a writer on St. Elsewhere.
After a string of short-term gigs on various TV series, he joined
Homicide: Life on the Street in 1996 for NBC crime drama's fourth
season.

Overmyer spent four years on the series, through its seventh and final
season, and also co-wrote and executive produced the follow-up Homicide:
The Movie. During his time on the show, Overmyer got to work with
Homicide writer-producer David Simon, on whose book the series was
based.

The two became friends, and Simon subsequently brought Overmyer in as a
writer on Season 4 of his acclaimed HBO drama The Wire, which aired in
2006.

Simon and Overmyer went on to co-create and executive produce the
post-Katrina HBO drama Treme, based in part on Overmyer's experience
living in New Orleans. It aired from 2010-14.

Overmyer most recently created for television Bosch, an adaptation of
the novels by Michael Connelly. (He is credited as developer of the
series since it is based on an existing IP.) Overmyer served as
executive producer and showrunner on the police drama starring Titus
Welliver, which became Prime Video's longest-running series, spanning
seven seasons.

He also co-created and executive produced spinoff series Bosch: Legacy,
headlined by Welliver reprising his role, which ran for three seasons
from 2014-21.

Overmyer's additional series credits include a four-season run on NBC's
Law & Order, including as an executive producer, and stints on Law &
Order: SVU, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and HBO's Boardwalk Empire. He
also co-wrote the 1998 ABC movie Rear Window starring Christopher Reeve
and the 2016 Nat Geo miniseries Saints & Strangers.

"Not only was Eric a superbly talented writer, he was just one of those
people everyone loved," Law & Order creator and franchise boss Dick
Wolf said. "We are all going to miss him."

Overmyer's work earned him four Emmy nominations, five WGA Award
nominations, including a 2016 win for Saints & Strangers, and a
Humanitas Prize.

In addition to his TV career, Overmyer was a prolific Off Broadway and
regional theater playwright. His stage credits include such
well-received Off Broadway productions as On the Verge; or, The
Geography of Yearning (1985), In a Pig's Valise (Second Stage Theater,
1989), Mi Vida Loca (City Center Stage II, 1990), The Heliotrope Bouquet
by Scott Joplin and Louis Chauvin (Playwrights Horizons, 1993) and Dark
Rapture (Second Stage Theatre, 1996). In 2000, he contributed additional
text for the Broadway production of the musical The Green Bird.   



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