Edgar Oliver is Francis Eugene Carroll

Edgar Oliver

Poet, actor, playwright, and author, Edgar Oliver has been a staple of the downtown New York theater scene since the late 1970s. He has written and appeared in plays at theaters across the city including The Pyramid Club, La Mam, and Axis. He has also performed with the Moth at the Nuyorican Poet’s Café. His one-man show, ‘East 10th Street: A Portrait of a House’ was a Fringe First Award winner at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2009.

Other acting credits include ‘Edward II,’ with Cliplight Theater; Marc Palmieri’s ‘Carl the Second;’ and Lipsynka’s ‘Dial M for Model.’ He has performed in numerous productions at Axis Theatre including ‘Trinity 5:29, ‘A Glance at New York, ‘Julius Caesar,’ ‘USS Frankenstein,’ ‘the Hospital series,’ and ‘Seven in One Blow, or the Brave Little Kid.’ Film roles include ‘Henry May Long’ (directed by Axis’ Randy Sharp), ‘the hermit & other poems’ (directed by Robert O’Haire), ‘The Escape Artist’ (written and directed by Michael Laurence), and ‘Gentlemen Broncos’ (directed by Jared Hess).

Published works include two collections of poetry, ‘A Portrait of New York by a Wanderer There’ and ‘Summer’ (Oilcan Press), as well as the novel ‘The Man Who Loved Plants’ (Panther Books, available at Goodie.org).

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