ERIK JACKSON (Playwright) has written four Off Broadway plays and a musical. The comedy Charlie! (1995) drew unprecedented “listening-room only” audiences to New York’s P.S. 122 and the HERE Theater. His comic thriller Tell-Tale (1997) premiered at P.S. 122 then transferred to the Cherry Lane Theater. It received a GLADD nomination as best play of the year. Doll (2000), a twisted take on Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, was produced at P.S. 122 and in Washington D.C. The musical Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, co-written with Ben Winters and featuring the songs of Neil Sedaka, premiered at Capital Rep in Albany, New York, in 2005, and has since played across America.

Jackson was a staff writer and story editor for season two of Here TV’s supernatural series Dante’s Cove. He also penned the screen adaptation of his play Charlie! The movie premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and subsequently screened at festivals around world. His screenplay Heartbreaker, a psychosexual thriller, was a finalist for the Outfest Screenwriting Lab. Jackson’s poems appeared in the Showtime film The Escape, starring Patrick Dempsey.

Jackson’s comic adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie premiered Off Broadway in December 2006. Jackson is the playwright-in-residence for New York’s Theatre Couture and is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

Jackson is a Senior Editor at InStyle magazine. Previously, his articles appeared in Glamour, Time Out New York, W, Real Simple and Out, among others. He has been an on-air reporter for the TV program Talking Movies on BBC/BBC America; acted as host of ABC’s entertainment program The Us Weekly Report; and was a correspondent for ABC’s News One radio show. He has appeared on CNN, VH1, Entertainment Tonight, The View, Access Hollywood, Fox News, The O’Reilly Factor, and, in a moment of shining glory, on MTV’s How to Live Like a Celebrity Pet.