Patricia Scanlon个人资料

Patricia Scanlon hails from a small town in Massachusetts and spent much of her youth working on her Grandmother's horse ranch in the nearby town of Holliston. She attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst and studied acting with Bill Pullman. Scanlon later moved to New York where she received critical acclaim for her solo show Another Cup of Coffee which she has performed at a numerous venues including Home For Contemporary Theater and Art in New York, The Public Theater, NY, Lincoln Center, NY and the inaugural Lucille Ball Festival in Jamestown, Massachusetts. Scanlon received critical acclaim for her performance in Blaming Mom by David Edelstein at the Ohio Theater in New York; Ben Brantley noted, "Patricia Scanlon, as a cripplingly high-strung femme fatale, provides one of the season's comic high points." Scanlon has performed in a number of plays in New York and Los Angeles. Her play What Is This Everything? is published by Smith and Kraus. Scanlon developed a cult following for her episodic theater serial, Hildy Hildy, that she penned and starred in. The show ran to sold our audiences for three seasons at the Cucaracha Theater In New York and was later produced as a play at Soho Rep in New York, where Scanlon co-starred along John C. Reilly. Hildy Hildy then moved to Los Angeles and ran at the Bootleg Theater for three seasons where material from the show was later produced as the play, Three Feet Under, presented by Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner. The long run of Hildy Hildy attracted such co-stars as Laurie Metcalf as Hildy Hildy's sister, Jane Lynch, Martin Donavan, Kevin Corrigan, Elizabeth Berridge, Blue Man Group, Siobhan Fallon, Tim Blake Nelson and others. The show was later animated by Disney animator Dan Lund and picked up for development by TBS. Most recently, Scanlon received critical acclaim for writing and performance in her play Death of a Salesgirl, produced at Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles. Death of a Salesgirl was Ovataion Recommended and one of the top ten critically acclaimed theatrical productions in Los Angeles for 2012. Scanlon has just finished a featured role, improvising opposite Harry Shearer in the film Love & Taxes, written by Josh Kornbluth directed by Jacob Kornbluth.