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Daniel L Patterson

Associate Professor Daniel L Patterson has directed at Keene State College in New Hampshire for the last twenty-eight years including his “Premiere Series”, a new play competition begun in 1989. His productions of Terra Nova, The Servant of Two Masters and Next Time by Fire (a Premiere Series production), have been invited to perform at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in the New England region.  His recent production of the original play Mockba by Ginger Lazarus was in consideration for the National  David Mark Cohen award. Professor Patterson received his BFA and MFA degrees from the University of Texas at Austin where he studied directing under the tutelage of Dr. Francis Hodge.  In 1975 Professor Patterson was one of the co-founders of the THEATREWORKS company at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs which has received numerous awards for its ” Playwright’s Forum” new play series (which, among other things,  premiered the Pulitzer Prize winning Kentucky Cycle by Robert Schenkkan) and the THEATREWORKS Shakespeare Festival.  Professor Patterson has acted in numerous Shakespeare companies around the country and is proud to count fourteen of the Bards’ works in his repertoire. He is currently on the Board of the Actor’s Theatre of West chesterfield and frequently acts for that community group. Professor Patterson was awarded the Kennedy Center Medallion in 2003 for his work as co-chair and co-host of the New England Regional of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.  Professor Patterson currently serves as the New England Chair for the Critic’s Institute and as a member of the Selection Committee and the Executive Committee for the KCACTF.