Bio

Patrick Gabridge’s full-length plays include Flight, Distant Neighbors, Fire on Earth, Constant State of Panic, Blinders, and Reading the Mind of God, and have been staged by theatres across the country. He’s also the author of two novels, 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, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild.  Recent commissions include plays and musicals for In Good Company, The Bostonian Society, and Tumblehome Learning.

He started writing and producing audio plays in 1993, with the No Name Radio Players and Chameleon Stage, and his work has been broadcast by NPR, Shoestring Radio Theatre, and Icebox Radio Theatre.  You can read more about Patrick’s work on his website, www.gabridge.com, or on his blog, The Writing Life x3.

He has a habit of starting things: he helped start Boston’s Rhombus playwrights’ group, the publication Market InSight… for Playwrights, and the on-line Playwrights’ Submission Binge, as well as a few theatre companies in Denver and New York. In his spare time, he likes to farm.