"Take an ordinary, screwed-up family--okay, maybe not so ordinary but definitely screwed up--and allow them to be honest with each other for the first time, and you have a powerful evening of love, American style. A mother researches every nuance of gay life (from sex toys to Matthew Shepard) in order to understand her son, a sister becomes Bjork to deal with abuse-trauma, a daughter/mother/lap-dancer finally finds herself, a brother falls in love despite his tortured past.

Every member of this extended family steals your heart as they daringly begin to recognize their own. Dark, funny, and searingly insightful, playwright Erik Patterson is on the road to great renown.

"-- Flavorpill. net, Lee BradleyA gay clown.

Two lesbian strippers. A pregnant Goth teen.

A deadbeat dad. A horny mother.

And a girl who thinks she’s Bjork. In this stand-alone sequel to Yellow Flesh / Alabaster Rose, the Silverstein family journey towards healing is abruptly halted when Elliot becomes the victim of a brutal gay bashing.

NOMINEE, LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards: Best PlaywritingPlay DetailsRed Light, Green Light is a full-length play with one intermission. Cast: 6 female, 7 maleGenre: dark comedy, dramedy, edgy, modern classic, dysfunction, new plays, subversive, provocative, radical, boldKeywords: LGBTQ, family, gay bashing, trauma, abuse, recoveryCharacter BreakdownELLIOT, thirty, a high school teacher.

LITTLE B, his sister, fifteen. Thinks she’s Bjork: the Icelandic pop singer.

BECKY, their older sister, thirty-one. A stripper.

MOM, in her fifties, the mother of Elliot, Little B, and Becky. Named Rose Silverstein.

ROSE, Becky’s daughter, fifteen. Pregnant.

Goth. KRISTEN, Becky’s girlfriend, in her thirties.

A stripper. AVI, twenty-five, Israeli.

A student of Philosophy. CALEB, thirties.

A professional clown. DAMIEN, Rose’s ex-boyfriend, sixteen.

Also a Goth. KENNY, a man in his forties.

RUTH, mother of Caleb, in her sixties. A housewife.

BARRY, a hustler, in his thirties. FRANK, a man in his forties.

About the AuthorErik Patterson's plays include He Asked For It, Sick, One of the Nice Ones, Handjob, and I Wanna Hold Your Hand. His theater 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. His writing for TV has been recognized with the Humanitas Prize and the Writer's Guild Award, as well as two Emmy nominations.

Along with his writing partner, Jessica Scott, Erik has written films for Warner Bros. , Universal, 20th Century Fox, Disney, Freeform, MTV, Paramount, Hallmark, and Syfy, among others.

Film and TV credits include: Abandoned (starring Emma Roberts and Michael Shannon), R. L.

Stine’s The Haunting Hour, Another Cinderella Story (starring Selena Gomez and Jane Lynch), Deep Blue Sea 2, Radio Rebel, and many more. Erik is a graduate of Occidental College and the British American Drama Academy.

He hosts a gently-guided writing sprint online called “Sunday Sprints” that attract writers seeking community and inspiration to do their best work. .