Patrick Young

Patrick Young graduated in English from Victoria College, University of Toronto, trained in Theatre on a graduate scholarship at Indiana University, and was soon a well-known actor across Canada. His Toronto credits included the record-breaking hits Flicks, The Relapse, and the original production of Automatic Pilot, as well as Chinchilla and the last national tour of Spring Thaw. Elsewhere the range included Misalliance and Threepenny Opera in Boston, Uncle Vanya and Tobacco Road in Indiana, Windsor in Charlottetown, Dames at Sea in Winnipeg, Hay Fever across BC and Scapin across Ontario, plus guest starring on such TV series as The Great Detective and Night Heat. During the 1980s, he branched into playwriting, directing, and teaching. He is the author of the award-winning biographical plays "Winnie" (also filmed for television), Aimee!, and Abigail, or The Gold Medal, several adaptations of classics, and numerous industrial shows. He has held the posts of Artistic Director of Dalhousie Theatre Productions in Halifax, Director/Dramaturg of the Music Theatre Writers' Colony at the Muskoka Festival, and Associate Director/Playwright in Residence at the Lighthouse Festival Theatre. Teaching includes Waterloo, Dalhousie, George Brown, Humber, and Gaya College in Malaysia. He was the founding Artistic Director of Theatre Erindale and the founding Sheridan Coordinator of the joint (with UTM) Theatre and Drama Studies Program, which he headed for twenty-five years. In addition to his numerous productions for Theatre Erindale - from Pericles and The Country Wife to That Summer and Unity (1918) - his credits for other theatres include The Shadow Box, The Crucible, Jitters, Waiting for the Parade, You Can't Take It With You, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Nelly McClung, the second production of Midnight Madness, the World Première of The Growing Season, and more new play workshops than he can count. In 2017 he was named one of the 50 most influential people in the first 50 years of the University of Toronto Mississauga.