Selected Work
State of the Union
The President has created his most impossible scandal yet.
Will his devoted longtime fixer finally decide to let him own it?
Bob & Jimmy
Before Jimmy Carter faced the country,
Robert Redford taught him how to face the camera.
Taylor & Travis: A Love Story Album
Cover of Taylor and Travis: A Love Story Album by Erik Forrest Jackson, illustrated by Yenna Mariana.
Fuckin’ Ruthie
A criminally funny dark comedy about con artists in 1975 Chicago. Shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize.
The Pop! Playbook Series
An interactive pop-culture book series for young superfans, launching from Penguin Workshop / Tinker in 2027.
Misty Makes It Better
A fresh new musical with an indie edge about doing the right thing for all the wrong reasons
Christmas in Connecticut
A joyously nostalgic new musical based on the 1945 Warner Bros. holiday classic
Cheers Live on Stage
A stage adaptation of the iconic television comedy, reshaped into a two-act theatrical event for longtime fans and newcomers alike.
Muppets Meet the Classics
The Muppets invade the literary canon in a critically acclaimed two-book series from Disney and Penguin Workshop.
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
A heartwarming Catskills-set musical comedy featuring the hits of Neil Sedaka. Stuart Zagnit, Jenny Fellner, Jamie LaVerdier, Ed Staudenmayer, Laura Woyasz and Renée Taylor onstage at the Actors Playhouse.
Carrie
A darkly comic stage reimagining of Stephen King’s bloody brilliant novel
Like a Billion Likes
Aaron Roberts, Delaney Milbourn, Evan Michael Woods, Mikaela Krantz, and Dana Schultes in the Stage West world premiere of Like a Billion Likes.
The Escape
When Patrick Dempsey needed original poems for a movie, Erik finally found a use for his undergraduate minor in Poetry
Doll
A ribald reworking of A Doll’s House that likely had Henrik Ibsen rolling over in his grave
Charlie!
“A frothy little musical about murder and brainwashing,” wrote Ben Brantley in his New York Times review
Tell-Tale
Edgar Allan Poe meets B-movie noir in this twisty Off Broadway thriller, a GLAAD Best Play nominee