Patrick Burns is an actor, playwright, and composer who has performed off-Broadway, regionally and in national tours. He is the creator and star of the original one-man-musical From Foster Care to Fabulous which has won philanthropy awards in New York and the Bay Area and played to enthusiastic audiences across the United States. In addition to writing the music for Madwomen, he has composed music for productions of Midsummer Night's Dream, Passion Play, Medea, and The Penguin Tango. He was recently awarded a Lincoln City Fellowship from the Speranza foundation to develop the new musical Life Sentence.