Patrick Page
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Patrick Page is an American actor and playwright living in New York City.
., Scar in The Lion King
, Decius Brutus in Julius Caesar (opposite Denzel Washington
), Lumière in Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol, and multiple roles in The Kentucky Cycle. His performance as King Henry VIII
(opposite Frank Langella
) in the Broadway revival of A Man for All Seasons
.http://www.broadway.com/A-Man-for-All-Seasons/broadway_show/569238 in 2008 was nominated for the Outer Critics Award and chosen by The Wall Street Journal as one of the outstanding theatre performances of that year. Off-Broadway he has been seen in Richard II, Rex, and The Duchess of Malfi. Page is also widely recognized as one of America’s leading classical actors. He is an Affiliate Artist of The Shakespeare Theatre Company
in Washington, DC and an Artist in Residence at The Old Globe in San Diego. As a member of The Shakespeare Theatre Company he received the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre (Will Award) along with other company members in 2007. Past recipients include Ian McKellen
, Kevin Spacey
, Jeremy Irons
, Judi Dench
, Ralph Fiennes
, Anthony Hopkins
, and Kevin Kline
.
In 2006 Page was awarded the Helen Hayes Award
for Outstanding Leading Performance by an Actor for his portrayal of Iago in Michael Kahn
’s production of Othello at The Shakespeare Theatre. Washington Post critic Peter Marks cited Page’s Iago as one of five outstanding American performances of Shakespeare in his lifetime; along with Stacy Keach
, Liev Schreiber
, Kevin Kline
and Michael Hayden
. Page’s other performances at STC include the title role in Macbeth (opposite Kelly McGillis
) and Claudius in Hamlet.
At the Old Globe Theatre
in San Diego Page’s performance in the title role of Cyrano De Bergerac won the Craig Noel, San Diego Critics, and Patte Awards for Outstanding Leading Actor in a Play. He has also been seen at the Globe as Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Pogo Poole in The Pleasure of His Company and Geoffrey Cordova in Dancing in the Dark (aka The Bandwagon) for which he also received the Craig Noel Award.
Page has performed at many of America’s leading regional theatres. His classical performances include Cyrano, Sergius, Hamlet, Richard II, Richard III, Oberon, Henry V, Talbot, Pinch, Armado, Mercutio, Brutus, Antony, Dr. Caius, Autolycus, Pandarus, Brazen, Hortensio, Malvolio, Horatio, Claudius, Iago, Jaques, Macbeth, and Benedick.
Page is also a playwright. In 2004 his play Swansong debuted at the Lucille Lortel White Barn Theatre in Norwalk, Connecticut and was named one of the top ten plays of the year by the American Theatre Critics Association. It later played at the Kennedy Center, The Seattle Shakespeare Company, and Off-Broadway on Theatre Row.
Page is also the author of the one-man shows Passion’s Slaves and Love Will, and the co-author (with Doug Christensen and Larry Baker) of Nothing Like the Sun. He is also the author of a popular stage adaptation of A Christmas Carol.
Page is also an acting teacher who has worked at NYU’s Tisch Graduate School of the Arts, The Old Globe’s MFA program, The Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s MFA program, The University of Southern Utah and many others. He now teaches privately in New York City. He has directed Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night and many more.
Page is currently playing the Green Goblin in Julie Taymor
’s new Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
, which plays at the Foxwoods Theatre.
Page was married to actress Liisa Ivary from 1989 to 1991. In 2001 he married actress and TV personality Paige Davis
(TLC’s Trading Spaces
, Broadway’s Chicago
, and Boeing-Boeing).
in Cedar City, becoming a Resident Artist and the Director of Development, during which time he helped oversee the creation of the new Randall L. Jones Theatre. During the off-season he frequently performed with the Pioneer Theatre Company
in Salt Lake City. Subsequently, he spent several seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
in Ashland, before branching out to other regional theatres and eventually moving to New York.
Career
Page’s Broadway credits include originating the role of The Grinch in Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (musical)
Dr Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! is a seasonal musical adaptation of the Dr. Seuss book How The Grinch Stole Christmas.-Minneapolis:...
., Scar in The Lion King
The Lion King
The Lion King is a 1994 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 32nd feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series...
, Decius Brutus in Julius Caesar (opposite Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington
Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and film producer. He first rose to prominence when he joined the cast of the medical drama, St. Elsewhere, playing Dr...
), Lumière in Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol, and multiple roles in The Kentucky Cycle. His performance as King Henry VIII
Henry VIII of England
Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was Lord, and later King, of Ireland, as well as continuing the nominal claim by the English monarchs to the Kingdom of France...
(opposite Frank Langella
Frank Langella
-Early life:Langella, an Italian American, was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, the son of Angelina and Frank A. Langella Sr., a business executive who was the president of the Bayonne Barrel and Drum Company. Langella attended Washington Elementary School and Bayonne High School in Bayonne...
) in the Broadway revival of A Man for All Seasons
A Man for All Seasons
A Man for All Seasons is a play by Robert Bolt. An early form of the play had been written for BBC Radio in 1954, and a one-hour live television version starring Bernard Hepton was produced in 1957 by the BBC, but after Bolt's success with The Flowering Cherry, he reworked it for the stage.It was...
.http://www.broadway.com/A-Man-for-All-Seasons/broadway_show/569238 in 2008 was nominated for the Outer Critics Award and chosen by The Wall Street Journal as one of the outstanding theatre performances of that year. Off-Broadway he has been seen in Richard II, Rex, and The Duchess of Malfi. Page is also widely recognized as one of America’s leading classical actors. He is an Affiliate Artist of The Shakespeare Theatre Company
Shakespeare Theatre Company
The Shakespeare Theatre Company is a regional theatre company located in Washington, D.C. Their self professed mission "is to present classic theatre of scope and size in an imaginative, skillful and accessible American style that honors the playwrights’ language and intentions while viewing their...
in Washington, DC and an Artist in Residence at The Old Globe in San Diego. As a member of The Shakespeare Theatre Company he received the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre (Will Award) along with other company members in 2007. Past recipients include Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen
Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE is an English actor. He has received a Tony Award, two Academy Award nominations, and five Emmy Award nominations. His work has spanned genres from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction...
, Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey, CBE is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and crooner. He grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television...
, Jeremy Irons
Jeremy Irons
Jeremy John Irons is an English actor. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969, and has since appeared in many London theatre productions including The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the...
, Judi Dench
Judi Dench
Dame Judith Olivia "Judi" Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA is an English film, stage and television actress.Dench made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years she played in several of William Shakespeare's plays in such roles as Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo...
, Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes is an English actor and film director. He has appeared in such films as The English Patient, In Bruges, The Constant Gardener, Strange Days, The Duchess and Schindler's List....
, Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, KBE , best known as Anthony Hopkins, is a Welsh actor of film, stage and television...
, and Kevin Kline
Kevin Kline
Kevin Delaney Kline is an American theatre, voice, film actor and comedian. He has won an Academy Award and two Tony Awards, and has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards and an Emmy Award.- Early life :...
.
In 2006 Page was awarded the Helen Hayes Award
Helen Hayes Award
A Helen Hayes Award is a theater award named for the famed actress Helen Hayes to recognize excellence in professional theater in the Washington, D.C. area since 1983. The awards are managed by Linda Levy Grossman. and presented by the Washington Theatre Awards Society.-Awards:The Helen Hayes...
for Outstanding Leading Performance by an Actor for his portrayal of Iago in Michael Kahn
Michael Kahn
Michael Kahn is the name of:*Michael Kahn *Michael Kahn , Washington D.C. based Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company...
’s production of Othello at The Shakespeare Theatre. Washington Post critic Peter Marks cited Page’s Iago as one of five outstanding American performances of Shakespeare in his lifetime; along with Stacy Keach
Stacy Keach
Stacy Keach is an American actor and narrator. He is most famous for his dramatic roles; however, he has done narration work in educational programming on PBS and the Discovery Channel, as well as some comedy and musical...
, Liev Schreiber
Liev Schreiber
Isaac Liev Schreiber , commonly known as Liev Schreiber, is an American actor, producer, director, and screenwriter. He became known during the late 1990s and early 2000s, having initially appeared in several independent films, and later mainstream Hollywood films, including the Scream trilogy of...
, Kevin Kline
Kevin Kline
Kevin Delaney Kline is an American theatre, voice, film actor and comedian. He has won an Academy Award and two Tony Awards, and has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards and an Emmy Award.- Early life :...
and Michael Hayden
Michael Hayden
Michael Vincent Hayden, is a retired United States Air Force four-star general and former Director of the National Security Agency and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency...
. Page’s other performances at STC include the title role in Macbeth (opposite Kelly McGillis
Kelly McGillis
Kelly Ann McGillis is an American actress. Her films include Top Gun, The Accused, and Witness, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination.-Career:...
) and Claudius in Hamlet.
At the Old Globe Theatre
Old Globe Theatre
The Old Globe is a professional theatre company located in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It produces about 15 plays and musicals annually in summer and winter seasons...
in San Diego Page’s performance in the title role of Cyrano De Bergerac won the Craig Noel, San Diego Critics, and Patte Awards for Outstanding Leading Actor in a Play. He has also been seen at the Globe as Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Pogo Poole in The Pleasure of His Company and Geoffrey Cordova in Dancing in the Dark (aka The Bandwagon) for which he also received the Craig Noel Award.
Page has performed at many of America’s leading regional theatres. His classical performances include Cyrano, Sergius, Hamlet, Richard II, Richard III, Oberon, Henry V, Talbot, Pinch, Armado, Mercutio, Brutus, Antony, Dr. Caius, Autolycus, Pandarus, Brazen, Hortensio, Malvolio, Horatio, Claudius, Iago, Jaques, Macbeth, and Benedick.
Page is also a playwright. In 2004 his play Swansong debuted at the Lucille Lortel White Barn Theatre in Norwalk, Connecticut and was named one of the top ten plays of the year by the American Theatre Critics Association. It later played at the Kennedy Center, The Seattle Shakespeare Company, and Off-Broadway on Theatre Row.
Page is also the author of the one-man shows Passion’s Slaves and Love Will, and the co-author (with Doug Christensen and Larry Baker) of Nothing Like the Sun. He is also the author of a popular stage adaptation of A Christmas Carol.
Page is also an acting teacher who has worked at NYU’s Tisch Graduate School of the Arts, The Old Globe’s MFA program, The Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s MFA program, The University of Southern Utah and many others. He now teaches privately in New York City. He has directed Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night and many more.
Page is currently playing the Green Goblin in Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor is an American director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, an Emmy Award and an Academy Award nomination for Original Song...
’s new Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is a rock musical with music and lyrics by U2's Bono and The Edge and a book by Julie Taymor, Glen Berger, and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. The musical is based on the Spider-Man comics created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, published by Marvel Comics, as well as the 2002...
, which plays at the Foxwoods Theatre.
Early life
Patrick Page was born in Spokane, Washington and raised primarily in Monmouth, Oregon. His father Robert (retired) was a theatre educator at Western Oregon University. Page’s early love of Shakespeare took hold when Robert was an actor with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, OR in 1964-65 Page’s Mother, Geri (retired) was an administrator at Oregon State University. Patrick has two brothers, Robert and Michael, and one sister, Gayle. In his teens Page developed an interest in magic and illusion. In 1978 he won the Pacific Coast Association of Magicians Stage Competition and in 1979 he was chosen by the International Brotherhood of Magicians as the Outstanding Teenage Magician in the stage-magic category.Page was married to actress Liisa Ivary from 1989 to 1991. In 2001 he married actress and TV personality Paige Davis
Paige Davis
Mindy Paige Davis , billed as Paige Davis, is an American actress best known as a host of the reality television series Trading Spaces.-Early life and career:...
(TLC’s Trading Spaces
Trading Spaces
Trading Spaces is an hour-long American television reality program that aired from 2000 to 2008 on the cable channels TLC and Discovery Home. The format of the show was based on the BBC TV series Changing Rooms. The show ran for eight seasons....
, Broadway’s Chicago
Chicago (musical)
Chicago is a musical set in Prohibition-era Chicago. The music is by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice and the concept of the "celebrity criminal"...
, and Boeing-Boeing).
Education
Page attended Central High School in Independence, Oregon and graduated in 1980, and The Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts. He then graduated Cum Laude from Whitman College in 1985 and was chosen as the valedictory speaker for his class. During his time at Whitman Page was twice chosen as the Outstanding Competitive Speaker in the Nation by the American Forensics Association, leading the Whitman team to an overall second place finish at Nationals.Early career
Page’s early career was spent primarily in Utah and Oregon. Page spent six seasons with the Utah Shakespearean FestivalUtah Shakespearean Festival
The Utah Shakespeare Festival is a festival of repertory productions of the works of William Shakespeare and other dramatists. The Festival is held during the summer and fall on the campus of Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah.-Awards:...
in Cedar City, becoming a Resident Artist and the Director of Development, during which time he helped oversee the creation of the new Randall L. Jones Theatre. During the off-season he frequently performed with the Pioneer Theatre Company
Pioneer Theatre Company
The Pioneer Theatre Company is one of four fully professional theatre companies in Utah, formed in 1962 and performing at the Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City. The non-profit company produces seven plays each season, running from September to May,...
in Salt Lake City. Subsequently, he spent several seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is a regional repertory theatre in Ashland, Oregon, United States. The festival annually produces eleven plays on three stages during a season that lasts from February to October...
in Ashland, before branching out to other regional theatres and eventually moving to New York.
Awards
Page is a recipient of The Princess Grace Award, The Will Award, The Utah Governors Medal for the Arts, The Whitman College Young Alumni Award, The Craig Noel Award, The Helen Hayes Award and The Joseph Jefferson Award.External links
- Official Site
- Feature article at Playbill.com
- The Lion King Broadway Official Website