Bio
SHORT BIOGRAPHY AND LIST OF CURRENT AND FUTURE PROJECTS
Bio
SHORT BIOGRAPHY AND LIST OF CURRENT AND FUTURE PROJECTS
patrick Howard
Patrick (he/him) is a freelance theatre artist born on Gundungurra Land (Mittagong NSW), living and working on Gadigal Land (Sydney NSW), with a passion for queer, political, devised, musical and documentary theatre. He also works full time a Program Manager, Touring for Arts on Tour, one of Australia's most prolific touring organisations and the peak body for touring in NSW.
A graduate of AIM Dramatic Arts (Performance) and an Honours graduate of Sydney Conservatorium of Music (Music Education/Classical Voice), Patrick has performed, directed, production, company and stage managed, sound designed, composed and dramaturged for an array of different companies. These include PYT Fairfield, Force Majeure, Monkey Baa, Performance Space, Sydney Opera House, ATYP, Contemporary Asian Australian Performance, The Last Great Hunt, Little Triangle, Red Line Productions and New Theatre. He also makes and produces his own work, and has conducted various teaching and mentoring engagements.
Patrick was a play assessor for New Theatre for eight years, a founding member and co-director of theatre collective Arrive. Devise. Repeat., and is currently co-producer, editor and co-host of the podcast Double Bed, Double Bill.
Since 2021, Patrick has worked for Arts on Tour in a full-time capacity, currently in the position of Program Manager, Touring. In this role he assists a great many theatre, dance and musical companies and organisations tour their work regionally and nationally in Australia. While this substantially limits his capacity for freelance projects, Patrick has finds time for the odd gig performing, directing and sound designing where his schedule allows.
Photo by Blake Condon
Current Projects
Current Projects
current projects
Three Sisters
by Anton Chekhov in a new version by Victor Kalka
Virginia Plain Theatre, directed by Victor Kalka
5-15 February 2025
Sound Designer
Great things are coming.
In a sleepy provincial town Olga, Masha, and Irina dream of a life of excitement, freedom and meaning. All they have to do is move home to Moscow. Instead, they find themselves trapped in a suffocating house where time seems to stand still. As the days turn into years, their youthful dreams of love, excitement, and freedom gradually fizzle.
Three Sisters is a tender portrait of a family grappling with the bittersweet distance between dreams and reality.
Hir
by Taylor Mac
New Theatre, directed by Patrick Howard
8 July - 2 August 2025
Director & Sound Designer
“Sometimes you spend an entire lifetime preparing for something to be one way and right from the start it’s another.”
Dishonourably discharged from the army, Afghanistan vet Isaac has returned to find his family and Californian childhood home in disarray.
His abusive and controlling father, Arnold, has suffered a stroke and is now helplessly dependent on his wife, Paige, who is finally getting her revenge after a lifetime of oppression, waging war on the patriarchy by refusing to clean.
Meanwhile, his younger sibling Max is exploring ‘hir’ identity, desperately searching for a way to fit in and buoyed by an almost-too-supportive mother.
When PTSD and waning male privilege collide with clown makeup and plans for radical communes, ‘home’ explodes.
This satirical take-down of the USA, war, money, family and gender, asks compelling questions about identity, belonging, trauma and redemption.
“A comedy with a serious conviction in the emancipatory power of radical thinking.” The Guardian
podcast
Double Bed, Double Bill
with Emma Khamis and Patrick Howard
Co-Producer, Co-Host & Editor
(currently on hiatus)
Double Bed, Double Bill is podcast produced and hosted by Patrick Howard and Emma Khamis. Episodes are released every other Friday.
“Patrick and Emma are like heaps cultured, don’t you know? Unfortunately, despite loving The Cinema (or, as the French say, 'cinéma'), there are lots of cultural touchstones and classic films that have escaped them over the years. Join them as they correct these oversights two films at a time while sitting on a bed, eating 'za, and talking about the world instead of participating in it.“