Actor, director, playwright, former high school English teacher, Patrick McCarthy, AEA, SAG/AFTRA, Dramatists Guild, Playwright's Center, Vermont Studio Center fellow, Performing Arts Legacy Project - PAL, Dancers Over 40, - DO40, ALL OUT ARTS Moderator of Developmental Readings, plays Scrooge in CHRISTMAS CAROL whenever & on whichever continent he is allowed. His frequent work on stage, film & TV complements his award winning playwriting. A Midwesterner at heart, he now proudly calls New York City his home.

VARIED LIVES (C) 2016 by ptmc "Modelled"​ upon Shakespeare's MERRY WIVES of WINDSOR Autumn 1930 American Heartland, a visitor from Milwaukee striving for more than just a weekend in the country throws Mr. Fenton Philip Ford's estate and its VARIED LIVES into chaos. SIX MEN: Modell "Moddy"​ Terrence Smith. 20s; Mr. Fenton Philip Ford 40s/50s; Turner, the butler 40s/50s; Satchel Baggins 20s; Mr. Princeton Percival Page 40s/50s; Mr. Donald John Falstaff, a brewmeister from Milwaukee 40s/50s http://variedlives.weebly.com/ https://www.pinterest.com/ptmcptmc9442/varied-lives/SLIPPERY: A Wintry Tale (C) 2015 Spun from Shakespeare's THE WINTER's TALEMonty's 16, & you're invited to his Birthday Party, Make sure you bring a gift, Beau Innes has...Someone will "exit pursued by a bear"​3 Women: Hermione, Paully, Perdy 6 Men: Leon, Beau, Cam, Monty, Max, Austin http://www.pinterest.com/ptmcptmc9442/slippery-a-wintry-tale/http://slipperyawintrytale.weebly.com/Aaron’s Revenger’s Tragedy: A Feast of Blood© 2019 By Patrick Thomas McCarthy ptmc Cast: 8 Men 3 or 4 Woman Synopsis:Mashing up Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy and the “Penny Dreadful” String of Pearls a.k.a. Sweeney Todd, to provide enough vengeance, mayhem and bloodshed to fill a banquet hall of horror. Aaron becomes the central character in this barbaric tripleheader, gaining his freedom, his vengeance & child’s legacy on the bloody way. Midnight’s Dream © 2018 Patrick Thomas McCarthy ptmc Setting/Situation: In the outer halls of Congress, 2 congresspeople, are having congress regarding their own sexlife and that of a constituent’s daughter. Camp Weekend Transgressions is in the Woods of Merryland where the lovers flee to escape and everyone follows or goes there first. A fanciful/farcical contemporary adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. CAST 7 Men & 5 WomenCUSTODY (C) 2017 by ptmc http://custodybyptmc.weebly.com/

12th NIGHTed On the 12th day/night of Christmas your true love brings to me, many kinds of pasta, a butler braying, and one golden ring. And they'll all come out of an Italian pear tree in the world of gay 1960's Little Italy with loons in the trees & fortunes to be made. A farce of epic proportions... it's 2 hours long. Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT shot out of a confetti cannon.. "If pasta be the food of love, carb on"http://www.pinterest.com/ptmcptmc9442/12th-nighted/

The LEARS (C) 2013 ....Thanksgiving dinner on the Heath? Edgar Reginald Lehman Lear and his daughters Anneril and Reagan, & his son Cord, and home health care nurse Cordelia Learson expect you at the advance reading of the will. The Storrs will also be there Father Glen, & sons Edmond "Monty"​ and Edgar "Ned"​ to see that their family interests are represented. 5 Men & 2 Women (C) 2013 by Patrick Thomas McCarthy ptmc ptmcplaywriting.comhttp://thelears.weebly.com/http://www.pinterest.com/ptmcptmc9442/the-lears-fools-of-fortune/

Completed REEKING of INDISCRETION: Madame X's Allerton on a Writing Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, Dec 2018. Staged readings in the Midwest and on East Coast preceding FringeNYC BYOV Festival run at CHAIN Studio Theatre, 312 W. 36th St, 4th Floor, NYC in Oct 2019.

CUSTODY (C) 2017 by ptmc Three men pursue one woman for CUSTODY of their children, memories & photo albums. Featuring America's only child with Dutch Elm Disease in a sub-urban comedy set in an apartment with four exits & one closet. Who's coming out & who's going in....CUSTODY by ptmc ... coming soon ... http://custodybyptmc.weebly.com/

Membership Director of Dancers Over 40: 2014 - 2023

sExToRtIoN: a pLaY by Patrick Thomas McCarthy pTmC© 2012 Reg# PAu 3-623-286 [7m] [2w]Suggested by a Midwestern teen sexting incident,8 twenty-somethings to play teens, and 1 male adult unearth a "sexting" scandal that changes the rules of "sExtOrtiOn" "What's on your teen's screen?"http://sextortion.weebly.com/index.html http://www.pinterest.com/ptmcptmc9442/sextortion/

PRIDE RIVER CROSSING: A Spoon River for the 21st Centurya play for 6 actors by Patrick Thomas McCarthyAwards = Best Ensemble Acting & Best Playwright for the 2012 ALL OUT ARTS Fresh Fruit Festival AEA Showcase, July 2012http://priderivercrossing.weebly.com/http://www.pinterest.com/ptmcptmc9442/pride-river-crossing/

Playwriting .... Aaron's Revenger's TragedyREEKING of INDISCRETION: Madame X's AllertonMidnight's DreamTEMPESTVARIED LIVESSLIPPERY: A Wintry Tale, 12th NIGHTed, THE LEARS: Fools of Fortune, sExtOrtiOn, PRIDE RIVER CROSSING, CONFESSIONS, CUSTODY DON'T WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE MEIN PASSINGRESUME'SHOTS www.ptmcplaywriting.com

HENRY V - Canterbury, Bardolph, French King, Erpingham

Scrooge in a "radio play" CHRISTMAS CAROL, Dec. 2012 at Smith Street Stage, Brooklyn, NY

Director/Actor/Playwright for LTOTS Summer Seasons 1988 to 2007, off season productions 1992 to 2008.

WIZARD of OZ, 42nd St, I DO! I DO!, THE ODD COUPLE, SAME TIME NEXT YEAR, THE PIRATES of PENZANCE, I LOVE YOU YOU'RE PERFECT NOW CHANGE, PLAID TIDINGS,

MERCHANT of VENICE - Old Gobbo, The Duke

ARSENIC & OLD LACE - Officer O'HaraSILVER DOLLAR - World Premiere Musical - Character Man

Acted on the mainstage, directed both mainstage & TYA, and was commissioned to write for TYA audiences

ROMEO & JULIET - Friar Laurence

Ruth

Developed DON'T WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE ME, a musical about prenatal care for THE MARCH of DIMES

Member WSF Summer Rep companies both in 1982 & 1983 Productions: 1982 ALL's WELL THAT ENDS WELL [Parolles], COMEDY of ERRORS [Barber], MERCHANT of VENICE [Aragon], The TEMPEST [Francisco]1983 KING LEAR [Cornwall] MIDSUMMER NIGHT's DREAM {Quince]; SCHOOL for SCANDAL [Backbite]

Only paid staff member managing volunteers, season selection, budget management, maintaining physical plant, grant writing, fund raising, public relations

Man of La Mancha, Funny Girl, Brigadoon, Camelot

Acted on the mainstage and worked in the booth