Erik Jensen

About Erik Jensen

Erik Jensen is an actor, writer, director and producer with a BFA in acting from Carnegie Mellon University.He appears regularly on the ABC television series For Life (2020) as ADA Dez O'Reilly opposite Nicholas Pinnock. Jensen played conspiracy theorist Frank Cody in several seasons of Sam Esmail's Mr. Robot (2015) and appeared as Dr. Stephen Edwards in Season Five of The Walking Dead (2010). He acted opposite Catherine Keener in the Amazon series Modern Love (2019) and in David Fincher's Mindhunter (2017) (Netflix). Memorable guest appearances include roles on 30 Rock (2006), The Americans (2013), The Blacklist (2013), all three Law and Order franchises, and CSI. Erik's performance in the miniseries The Bronx Is Burning (2007) (2007), as legendary New York Yankee, Thurman Munson, opposite John Turturro and Daniel Sunjata, won critical praise. Jensen reportedly gained 26 pounds for the role.Notable stage roles include his "Breathtaking" (Billboard) performance as gonzo rock journalist Lester Bangs in the solo-play "How To Be A Rock Critic" at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and at The Public Theater in New York. Jensen co-wrote "How To Be A Rock Critic" and was directed by his wife and frequent collaborator Jessica Blank. Other appearances include Tracey Scott Wilson's "The Good Negro" at The Public Theater directed by Liesl Tommy, and the Pulitzer Prize winning production of Ayad Akhtar's "Disgraced" at Lincoln Center. Early theater appearances include plays by Terrence McNally (Manhattan Theater Club) and Arthur Kopit (MTC).In addition to his work as a performer, Erik is a playwright and screenwriter. Erik co-wrote (with Jessica Blank) the multi-award-winning, critically-acclaimed play, "The Exonerated", which ran Off-Broadway in New York City for nearly two years and starred Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, Aidan Quinn, and Delroy Lindo. "The Exonerated" is considered by many to be a genre-defining play in the realm of "documentary theater." Based on interviews conducted with over 40 wrongly convicted death row inmates across the United States, "The Exonerated" won Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Ovation, Fringe First and Herald Angel Awards, and was nominated for the Hull-Warriner Award and the John Gassner Playwriting Award; it has also received awards from Amnesty International, the American Bar Association, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Death Penalty Focus, and Court TV, and named Best Play of the Year by the New York Times. The screen adaptation of The Exonerated (2005) was directed by Bob Balaban. Jensen and Blank's book on the making of the "The Exonerated" titled "Living Justice" was published in 2005 by Simon and Schuster and received a Kirkus starred review.On the heels of "The Exonerated" Jensen and Blank created the documentary play "Aftermath," a NY Times Critic's Pick, based on their interviews with Iraqi civilian refugees in Jordan, which ran Off-Broadway to sold out houses at New York Theater Workshop and toured Europe extensively. Their third play, "How To Be A Rock Critic" (based on the writing of Lester Bangs), received rave reviews from Rolling Stone, Billboard, Variety, The New Yorker, and from Bangs' contemporaries Greil Marcus and Jim Derogatis. As television writers, Jensen and Blank have collaborated with EPs including Tom Fontana (Oz (1997), City on a Hill (2019)) and Ed Burns (The Wire (2002), Generation Kill (2008)). Jensen and Blank wrote and adapted the pilot "T...

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Greg & Morgan first meet (CSI s.12 ep1)

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Everything Geek Podcast Guest Interview- Erik Jensen

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