Erik Patterson is an American screenwriter, television writer, and playwright.
Life and career
Erik is a graduate of
Occidental College
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and the
British American Drama Academy.
His plays have been produced by Playwrights' Arena, the
Los Angeles Theatre Center,
Theatre of NOTE, Evidence Room, and The Actors' Gang, and developed through the
Lark Play Development Center, Moving Arts, Black Dahlia,
Naked Angels, and the
Mark Taper Forum
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. He has had monologues published by
Heinemann and Smith & Kraus.
Along with writing partner Jessica Scott, he has written screenplays for
Warner Premiere,
ABC Family
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, the
Disney Channel
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,
The Hatchery, and
Universal.
Erik currently lives in
Los Angeles
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,
California
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.
Awards
He won a 2012 Humanitas Prize for "Radio Rebel".
He won a 2010
Writers Guild of America Award
The Writers Guild of America Awards is an award for film, television, and radio writing including both fiction and non-fiction categories given by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America West since 1949.
Eligibility
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for Best Children's Script (Long Form) for ''Another Cinderella Story''.
He was nominated in the
40th Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing in a Children's Series for "R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour". He was nominated in the same category for the 41st Daytime Emmy Awards.
His play ''He Asked For It'' was nominated for a 2009
GLAAD Media Award
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for Outstanding Los Angeles Theater. It was nominated for a 2008
Ovation Award for World Premiere Playwriting, as well as being named one of the Top 10 Plays of 2008 by Frontiers Magazine. In 2003, his play ''Yellow Flesh Alabaster Rose'' won a Backstage West Garland Award for Best Playwriting and was a finalist for the
PEN USA Literary Award. In 2004, his play ''Red Light Green Light'' was nominated for an Ovation Award for World Premiere Playwriting.
His play "One of the Nice Ones" was nominated for a 2016
Ovation Award for World Premiere Playwriting, and it won the 2017 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Playwriting.
Work
Plays
*''Handjob'' (2019)
*''One of the Nice Ones'' (2016)
*"The Sex Lives of Strangers" (unproduced)
*''Sick'' (2010)
*''He Asked for It'' (2008)
*''Red Light Green Light'' (2004)
*''Yellow Flesh Alabaster Rose'' (2003)
*''Tonseisha'' (2001)
Film and TV
He has written several episodes of the television series ''
R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour'' including:
* "Best Friend Forever" (1.12)
* "Wrong Number" (1.16)
* "The Perfect Brother" (1.20)
* "Pumpkinhead" (2.5)
* "Brush With Madness" (2.6)
* "The Hole" (2.10)
* "Stage Fright" (2.15)
* "Grampires: Part 1" (3.1)
* "Grampires: Part 2" (3.2)
* "Poof de Fromage" (3.15)
* "Funhouse"
* "Bad Egg"
* "Near Mint Condition"
* "Return of the Pumpkinheads"
References
External links
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Occidental College alumni
American male screenwriters
American television writers
American dramatists and playwrights
American male television writers
American male dramatists and playwrights
American LGBTQ dramatists and playwrights