Patrick's full-length plays include Distant Neighbors, Lab Rats, Flight, Fire on Earth, Constant State of Panic, Blinders, and Reading the Mind of God, and have been developed and staged by theaters across the country. He's the author of three novels, Steering to Freedom, Tornado Siren, and Moving [a life in boxes]. His plays are published by Playscripts, Brooklyn Publishers, Heuer, Smith & Kraus, and Original Works Publishers. He’s been a Playwriting Fellow with the Huntington Theatre Company and with New Rep. Recent commissions include plays and musicals for In Good Company, The Bostonian Society, Central Square Theatre, and Tumblehome Learning. Patrick is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a board member of Boston's Theatre Community Benevolent Fund. His radio plays have been broadcast on NPR, Playing on Air, and elsewhere. He has a habit of starting things: he helped start Boston's Rhombus playwrights' group, the publication Market InSight for Playwrights, the on-line Playwrights' Submission Binge. He is the co-founder and coordinator of StageSource’s New England New Play Alliance. In his spare time, he likes to farm.
You can read the script for Lab Rats at the New Play Exchange.
