F**KING STRANGERS

Ru hasn’t left his bedroom in years. Mick can’t stop paying for affection. Julianne mourns the person she never became and the dreams she once had. And Dylan will sell himself to anyone if the price is right. In this dark comedy of love and loneliness, four F**king Strangers are about to discover they’re connected in more ways than they realize.

Erik Patterson is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and writing teacher. Recent plays include One of the Nice Ones (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award winner) and Handjob, both at The Echo Theater Company. His work has been produced or developed by Playwrights’ Arena, the Los Angeles Theatre Centre, Theatre of NOTE, the 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. His plays have been nominated for the Ovation Award, the Stage Raw Award, the LA Weekly Award, and the GLAAD Media Award. Erik has written films for Warner Bros., Universal, 20th Century Fox, Disney, Freeform, MTV, Paramount, Hallmark, and Syfy, among others. Credits include Abandoned (starring Emma Roberts and Michael Shannon), fourteen episodes of R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour (two Emmy Award nominations), Another Cinderella Story (winner of the WGA Award), Deep Blue Sea 2, and Radio Rebel (winner of the Humanitas Prize). Erik is the creator of Your Daily Writing Prompt on TikTok and is the author of a series of writing prompt books for Simon & Schuster, including Write a Romantasy and Write a Dystopian Novel, available in bookstores nationwide. Erik is a graduate of Occidental College and the British American Drama Academy.