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Erik Patterson recently won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for One of the Nice Ones, which had its world premiere at The Echo Theater Company in 2016. His plays have been produced or developed by Playwrights' Arena, the Los Angeles Theatre Center, Theatre of NOTE, Evidence Room, The Actors' Gang, the Echo Theater Company, the Lark Play Development Center, Moving Arts, Black Dahlia, Naked Angels, the Mark Taper Forum, and New Group. Nominations include the Ovation Award, the Stage Raw Award, the LA Weekly Award, and the GLAAD Media Award. His writing for TV has been recognized with the Humanitas Prize and the Writer's Guild Award, as well as two Emmy nominations. Film and TV credits include R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour, Another Cinderella Story, and Deep Blue Sea 2. His play Handjob recently ran to sold-out houses at Echo Theater Company in Atwater Village. Erik is a graduate of Occidental College and the British American Drama Academy.
"""Veteran theater provocateur Erik Patterson stings once again in One of the Nice Ones... Patterson's play is an exemplar of rudeness whose near-surreal vulgarity elicits torrents of laughter from his gobsmacked audience."" -F. Kathleen Foley, LA Times ""This world premiere comedy, despite pre-show warnings of crass situations and adult language, turns out to have a delicate heart reminding us we are our brothers' keepers."" -Dany Margolies, Time Out LA ""Fast moving entertainment of substance that will keep you laughing and cringing in spite of yourself. Office politics at its worst and we can't stop laughing."" -Suzanne Birrell, Discover Hollywood ""Unflinchingly profane, Patterson has brought the language that we all may use from time to time bubbling to excess with twists and turns that keep us guessing and gasping... Highly recommended for those with a skewed sense of humor and a high threshold for the language of Henry Miller or maybe Christopher Durang on acid. It's a shocking and a totally unexpected rush."" -Michael Sheehan, On Stage Los Angeles ""Recommended. Scabrously funny... a comedy that deserves to be experienced with its upending twists and turns left undisclosed."" -Deborah Klugman, Stage Raw ""This isn't 'feel good' theater, it's essential theater. It asks us to listen differently, to feel deeply, and to reconsider the world around us. It's begging for a difficult empathy for stories and characters we might rather avoid. One of the Nice Ones isn't easy or perfect but it is important."" -Anthony Byrnes, KCRW ""It is Patterson's mischievous mind and unsanitized wit that makes One of the Nice Ones infinitely nicer than the socially damaged characters he has invented."" -Travis Holder, ArtsInLA"
