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Patrick Mulcahy

 

Producing Artistic Director of the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival at DeSales University.

Since assuming leadership in 2003, Mr. Mulcahy has had the pleasure of stewarding PSF's return to artistic excellence and financial stability, the rebuilding of the professional company of artists, and achieving increasing national recognition for the Festival.  Further accomplishments include PSF's first-ever award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and attracting a company of artists including winners and nominees of the Tony, Obie, Emmy, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Jefferson and Barrymore awards to the Festival, growth in all income areas, a 50% increase in annual attendance, and the expansion of the number of Actor's Equity contracts per season. 



As a professional director, actor, and fight director, credits include Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional theatre, television and radio.  Mr. Mulcahy has acted with Angela Bassett, Peter MacNicol, Hal Holbrook, Joan Cusack, Don Cheadle, Anne Meara, Milo O'Shea, Cynthia Nixon, Tony Shaloub, Bradley Whitford and others at the New York Shakespeare Festival, Hartford Stage, The Roundabout Theatre, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Syracuse Stage and the Walnut Street Theatre.  He served as fight director for Tom Hulse and Timothy Busfield in A Few Good Men on Broadway, and for Off-Broadway productions starring John Savage, John Mahoney, Marcia Gay Harden and Patrick Dempsey.  For PSF, he directed The Winter's Tale (2007), Henry IV, Part 1 (2005), The Tempest (1999) and acted in and served as fight director for The Taming of the Shrew (1998) and Julius Caesar (1997). 

As Head of Acting at DeSales, Patrick directed ten productions for Act 1, including I Hate Hamlet, The Grapes of Wrath, The Foreigner and The Diary of Anne Frank.  He was also the founding director of The Summer Theatre Institute at DeSales University, now one of the premiere summer training programs in the Northeast.  Mr. Mulcahy holds an M.F.A. in directing from Syracuse University.