←Recommendations of WATCH YOUR PRONOUNS - one-act, grandfathers with young LGBTQ family members shares their inner turmoil.

'Watch Your Pronouns' contributes to the ongoing dialogue about gender identity and acceptance. The play’s message is clear: love and understanding are paramount, and personal growth often requires confronting and overcoming one’s own prejudices.

I remember the first time I was asked my pronoun in a playwriting course. I had no idea what they were asking.

This play tackles the family challenge of a grandchild being trans with intricate dialogue on the pronoun they wanted used. I could identify with George, not because I had an issue with trans people, but because like him I stumble with pronouns other than the obvious two used in the usual way. I found the conversation fascinating.

Cliff is an interesting foil to George, asking the hard questions. I really enjoyed the play.

Change does not come easily, particularly as we age. In this compelling drama, Tom Erb demonstrates this perfectly as we see in one case change comes too late. In the other case, there may still be time. Issues of gender identity and sexual orientation may cause confusion or worse between generations, but as this play movingly shows us, acceptance is the only path forward. Great roles for two older gentlemen.

This is a moving play about the difficult path to acceptance. George must accept that the world has changed and that his grandson has found his true gender identity. Cliff uses his own pain to guide George to seeing that acceptance is a necessary part of love.

This was such a moving play. And highlights the struggles many cis people have adjusting to the changes their trans loved ones are going through. It's careful, well thought out, and filled with love beneath the character's anger and confusion. It's an honest portrayal of hard-won, but earned love.

As a transgender playwright, I have overheard this conversation many, many times. It seems to be an almost universal reaction to a family member coming out as trans, and this play captures it perfectly.
Far from being the type of play that beats its audience over the head with simplistic good/bad ideals of leftist morality, it dwells in the very human crossroads where misunderstanding collides enlightenment, where confusion collides with guidance, and where distaste collides with acceptance.

This is a lovely play. A simple everyday conversation between two old friends trying to make sense of their losses. They are also trying to navigate the modern world and their conversation helps us see things from different perspectives. I'd love to see this on stage at a shorts festival.

A raw and real conversation that I have heard dozens of times before. Erb does a wonderful job of looking at the conversation from many different angles. And leaving room for the audience to make decisions of their own on what the best response would be if they were in one of the characters' shoes. Very well done.

This play pushes you to reconsider your preconceived notions of pronouns and what someone's experience transitioning is like.

I can barely see through my tears.
Often, we can easily forget that a transition involves more than just the person physically transitioning, but everyone else who loves the person they knew. Playwright Tom Erb boldly shows the other side of the gender dysphoria coin, with a grandparent mourning the loss of his granddaughter, not ready to accept his grandson. Brilliant words of wisdom. A must read.