Edgar Oliver (born October 31, 1956[1]) is an American stage and film actor, poet, performance artist and playwright.
[7] At a live The Moth event, recorded on January 25, 2006, Oliver recalled how he and his sister Helen escaped their eccentric mother by running away to Paris using their trust money from their deceased father.
[8] Notable New York City productions include his roles in Edward II with Cliplight Theater and numerous productions at the Axis Theatre Company including A Glance at New York (which played at the Edinburgh Festival) and his autobiographical one-man show East 10th Street: Self Portrait With Empty House, which enjoyed an extended run with Axis.
He appeared in the Jared Hess film Gentlemen Broncos[2] and had the leading role as a Futurist performance artist[9] in the comedy feature That's Beautiful Frank.
[5] Oliver has written at least a dozen plays, "including The Poetry Killers, The Ghost of Brooklyn, When She Had Blood Lust, The Master of Monstrosity, I Am A Coffin, My Green Hades and Chop Off Your Ear".
[11] These has often been produced at La MaMa ETC,[2] most notably the 2000 production of his play The Drowning Pages starred Deborah Harry (of Blondie fame).
[6] On April 30, 2011, at another The Moth event, he related further adventures of his, when he, Helen, and a friend Jason traveled to Tangier, Morocco, to (eventually) meet author Paul Bowles.