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David needs to get laid, Gary could use a drink, and Tim would like you to take your top off. Carla craves cocaine, Jeannie's got God, and Pamela keeps digging herself deeper into the funny and frightening world of hypochondria. But when one of their own gets sick for real, they're all going to have to face their greatest fears and grow up. NOMINEE, LA Weekly Award, Outstanding Playwriting Play Details Sick is a 90-minute play with no intermission. Cast: 3 female, 3 male, 1 child Genre: comedic drama Keywords: hypochondria, mothers, leukemia, sex Character Breakdown PAMELA, a twenty-eight-year-old woman. DAVID, her husband. MICHAEL, their ten-year-old son. BROWN, his doctor. Handsome, charming. GARY, Pamela's brother. CARLA, his wife. JEANNIE, an addict, a sales clerk.

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"""Playwright Erik Patterson admits to personal hypochondria in the program notes for this resplendently twisted effort-yet another in his string of hilariously wicked and glaringly contemporary plays gloriously sending up the communal sickness that affects us all as our country becomes progressively more immune to wellness. CRITICS PICK."" -Travis Michael Holder, Backstage ""The two-character scenes that dominate the piece showcase Erik Patterson's edgy and hilarious play."" -Mayank Keshaviah, LA Weekly ""When it comes to walking the fine line between humor and misery, Erik Patterson is an experienced high-wire artist. Patterson's new play, Sick, is an incisive treatment of hypochondria and addiction that can be blisteringly funny... Subplots abound, and Patterson makes some sweetly salient points about the role of faith in the recovery process, as the people in Pamela's orbit struggle with their own burdensome brain chemistry."" -Kathleen Foley, Los Angeles Times ""Modern society at its best and most neurotic is the theme here in playwright Erik Patterson's smashing new play Sick."" -Entertainment Today ""Funny, personal, brutal at times, and profound... Sick packs a pretty enormous punch, and gives you a lot to think about and talk about afterwards."" -Sheila O'Malley, The Sheila Variations"

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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.

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