Larry Atlas is the author of eight produced plays. He is best known for the award-winning play Yield of the Long Bond, which premiered at the Matrix Theatre in Los Angeles starring Ian McShane

Ian McShane

Ian David McShane is an English actor, director, producer, voice artist, and comedian.Despite appearing in numerous films, McShane is best known for his television roles, particularly the BBC's Lovejoy and HBO's Western drama Deadwood...

 and Byron Jennings. He directed the second production in this play at NY Stage and Film with Jennings, David Strathairn

David Strathairn

David Russell Strathairn is an American actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award for portraying journalist Edward R. Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck...

, and Kyra Sedgwick

Kyra Sedgwick

Kyra Minturn Sedgwick is an American actress.Sedgwick is best known for her starring role as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on the TNT crime drama The Closer. Sedgwick's role in the series won her a Golden Globe Award in 2007 and an Emmy Award in 2010...

. Also noteworthy is Total Abandon, which was produced on Broadway starring Richard Dreyfuss

Richard Dreyfuss

Richard Stephen Dreyfuss is an American actor best known for starring in a number of film, television, and theater roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goodbye Girl, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Stakeout, Always, What About...

 and John Heard.

The other produced plays are Sonnetteer, Sweet Talker, Subject Animal and Permanent.

Book author and screenwriter

He wrote the book for the musical Passing It On, which premiered at the Coconut Grove Theatre in Miami. As a screenwriter Atlas has worked on almost two dozen Hollywood studio projects, including Sleepless in Seattle.

Actor and television appearances

A former actor, he appeared in numerous plays in New York and regionally, and in principal or lead roles in such films as King of America, Cruising, Firstborn, The Children's War, and Indio. Appearances on television included Kate and Allie, Another World, Out of the Darkness, Police Brass and many others.

Video

Atlas was instrumental in inventing the first method for creating fully hyperlinked video, and wrote and directed the first movie employing this technology, "The Onyx Project

Onyx Project

The Onyx project is a critically acclaimed venture to create an interactive computer movie in nonlinear form. Viewers decide what they see in the beginning, middle and end of the movie...

," starring David Strathairn, released in Fall of 2006.

External links

• The Onyx Project