Richard Skipper Celebrates Robert Patrick 10/04/2022

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/COhV-f12dY8 ROBERT PATRICK's family were migrant workers. The first time he attended one school for a whole year was his senior year of high school in Roswell, New Meixco, where he also discovered his first library. and world literature. A fanatuc fan of movies and magazines, he discovered theater when he washed dishes at a summer theater in Maine. On his way back to New Mexico, he followed a cute boy into a magical coffeehouse in Greenwich Village called the Caffe Cino. It was the first Off-Off Broadway theater and the birthplace of gay theater, where Patrick did his first plays. As Off-Off Broadway grew, Patrick was called by Samuel French "New York's most-produced playwright of the 1960s." The international success of his play "Kennedy's Children" led to a decade of lecturing at high schools, colleges and small theaters nationwide. He retired in 1990 and moved to Los Angeles, where he vegetated until 2012 when yioung entrepreneurs Jason Jenn, Ian MacKInnon and Helene Udy persuaded him to sing. He has published perhaps a hundred plays, as well as poetry and a novel. A young director, Jon Pratt, plans a season of Patrick's one-acts. He is as surprised as you are.