Erik Patterson is an American screenwriter, television writer, and playwright.
Life and career
Erik is a graduate of Occidental College and the British American Drama Academy.
His plays have been produced by Echo Theater Company, Playwrights' Arena, the Los Angeles Theatre Center,Jenelle RIley, "Back Stage Interviews Erik Patterson", Back Stage, 2010-04-18 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. He has had monologues published by Heinemann and Smith & Kraus.
He has written screenplays for Warner Premiere, ABC Family, the Disney Channel, The Hatchery, and Universal.
Erik currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
Awards
He won the 2026 Julie Harris Playwriting Prize from the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild for his play Oakwood High School Presents Thornton Wilder's Our Town.
He won a 2012 Humanitas Prize for "Radio Rebel".
He won a 2010 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Children's Script (Long Form) for Another Cinderella Story.Jeff Leins, "Hurt Locker, Up in the Air Win at WGAs" , News In Film, 2010-02-21.
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".Nellie Andreeva, "Daytime Emmy Nominations", Deadline Hollywood, 2013-05-01. He was nominated in the same category for the 41st Daytime Emmy Awards.
His play He Asked For ItAlek & Steph, "OhLaLa Mag Interviews Erik Patterson", Oh La La Mag, 2009-07-13 was nominated for a 2009 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Los Angeles Theater.GLAAD, "20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards" , GLAAD.org 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.Les Spindle, "Ask and You Shall Receive", Backstage West, 2009-06-10 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.LADCC, , LADCC, 2022-08-03.
Work
Plays
Oakwood High School Presents Thornton Wilder's Our Town (2026) F**king Strangers (2026) Handjob (2019)Jonas Shwartz-Owen, , Broadway World, 2019-08-23. One of the Nice Ones (2016) "The Sex Lives of Strangers" (unproduced)Kathleen Dennehy, "Erik Patterson interview with Kathleen Dennehy", Connotation Press, 2013-05-01. Sick (2010)Joshua Fardon, "Erik Patterson interview with Connotation Press", Connotation Press, 2011-08-08. He Asked for It (2008)Amita Parashar, "He Asked For It" , The Advocate. Red Light Green Light (2004)Slim, "Mother and Child Union", Kotori Magazine, 2004-05-13. Yellow Flesh Alabaster Rose (2003)Slim, "Yellow Flesh Alabaster Rose", Kotori Magazine, 2003-02-15. Tonseisha (2001)
Film and TV Movies Year Title Film production 2022 Abandoned Vertical Entertainment 2021 Sister Swap: Christmas in the City Hallmark Channel 2021 Sister Swap: A Hometown Holiday Hallmark Channel 2018 Deep Blue Sea 2 Warner Bros. 2017 Love at First Bark Hallmark Channel 2016 Love on a Limb Hallmark Channel 2015 The Christmas Note Lighthouse Pictures Love Under the Stars Two 4 The Money Media 2014 Sophia Grace & Rosie's Royal Adventure Warner Bros. 2012 Radio Rebel Disney Channel 2011 A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song Warner Premiere 2008 Another Cinderella Story Warner Premiere
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"
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