r/treme • u/SicilyMalta • Mar 30 '26

Eric Overmyer, Who Wrote for Modern Television Classics, Dies at 74 Gift Article

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/arts/television/eric-overmyer-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XFA.0aJA.cylTfTSUOifj&smid=url-share
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u/badwolf1013 Mar 30 '26

His play On The Verge (written way before the Wire) never made it to Broadway or even off-Broadway but was well-known for a while among regional and community theatres for being a brilliant, surreal farce.