Biography of Nicholas A Patricca

Nick Patricca is an internationally published and produced playwright, poet, and essayist. Victory Gardens premieres include The Examen, Gardinias ‘n’ Blum, The Fifth Sun, and The Defiant Muse. In Spring and Summer 2005, Patricca’s play An Uncertain Hour was produced at Spirit Square Theatre in Charlotte, North Carolina, and at the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond, Virginia by ASU Ensemble. The live performances of these productions were broadcast over the internet by CSCi Multimedia. Patricca holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, is senior professor emeritus of theatre at Loyola University Chicago, an associate artistic director at Bailiwick Repertory Chicago, and a member of TOSOS II ensemble in New York. He has been the recipient of many honors and awards, including National Endowment for the Arts and Illinois Arts Council fellowships and grants, USIA, Illinois Governor's, and Chicago Artist Exchange Program awards, and the Cunningham Prize for Playwriting from DePaul University. In May of 2006, Nick received the Oscar Wilde Award for Outstanding Achievement in New Work for the Theatre, Dublin, Ireland, for his play "Oh, Holy Allen Ginsberg . . . ." In August of 2006, in Athens, Greece, he received an Onassis Distinction Prize for his play “The Defiant Muse” which received its world premiere at Victory Gardens Biograph Theater in Chicago in October of 2007. Recently, his play, The Defiant Muse, which enjoyed its world premiere at Victory Gardens’ Biograph Theater in October of 2007, has been accepted for publication by the Dramatic Publishing Company (Woodstock, IL; London, England; Melbourne, Australia). Nick is also happy to announce that the award winning Mexican author Moisés Zamora (Second Prize 'VI Opera Prima,' Madrid; First Prize, 'Border of Words Bi-national Prize,' Mexico-USA) is translating The Defiant Muse into Spanish for production in Mexico.