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Steven appeared in Larry Shue's The Foreigner, the inaugural production of the newly-formed Chenango River Theater in Greene, NY from August 9 - 24, 2007. He played Owen Musser (a redneck Ku Klux Klan member - typecasting for sure) and shared the stage with a terrific cast including Daniel Hall Kuhn (from our NY production of All That Fall) who played the title role.

"The cast is rounded out by resident meanie and ignoramus Owen Musser. In Steven Patterson's hands, Musser is bad. Really bad. Kind of like Iago with a tin of Skoal. He exudes such pure predatory menace on the stage it makes you glad not to be sitting in the front row."
Sarah D'Esti Miller, Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin

Steven was featured in Paul Dick's musical adaptation of Flaubert's Madame Bovary presented by Passajj Productions, Ltd. June 1-17, 2007 at Theatre Five (formerly The Mint), 311 West 43rd Street in Manhattan.

"Steven Patterson turns in a delightfully nuanced performance as the shrewd and conniving pharmacist Homais."
Amy Krivohlavek, offoffonline.com

He also appeared on Tuesday evening June 5, 2007 in an extremely successful reading of Paul Mullin's An American Book of the Dead: The Game Show!  presented by the Subjective Theatre Company @ Collective: Unconscious, 279 Church Street in Lower Manhattan.

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Steven returned to Manhattan in early February 2007 after having spent 5 months in Orlando, FL where he appeared in Jim Helsinger's one-man adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: the Modern Prometheus and as Kent in King Lear at the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival. Frankenstein played October 13 - November 26 and Lear January 10 - Feb 4.

"Jean-Louis Barrault, the great French actor, director and impresario, once said that one actor alone on a stage is enough to create theater - if necessary, total theater. Rarely has this dictum been more gratifyingly confirmed than in the Orlando Shakespeare Festival's current production of Frankenstein: the Modern Prometheus ... Moving briskly from one deft portrayal to another, Patterson weaves this tale-within-a-tale with a control that is nothing short of masterful. His commanding renditions of the play's three protagonists fill the evening with dazzling theatrical power. It's an acting tour de force that absolutely should not be missed ... The combined effect of Shelley's imaginative narrative, Helsinger's erudite adaptation, Gladu's perceptive direction and Patterson's phenomenal performance is one of total belief and total immersion in the doomed lives of its damned characters. It is a true experience of total theater. Barrault would have been proud."
Al Krulick, Orlando Weekly

"Lightning strikes just when it ought to in Frankenstein: the Modern Prometheus ... With his thin face and prominent cheekbones, Patterson's Dr. Frankenstein has the face of a death mask or of Klaus Kinski's Nosferatu. He can slip like magic from one character to the next. As an old professor, his body seems to shrink and his voice turns to a nearly nonexistent mumble; transforming himself from the doctor to the creature, he is there with a shift of light and a twist of limb."
Elizabeth Maupin, Orlando Sentinel

"Oh my. The artistic performance by Patterson will keep you on the edge of your seat. Patterson, blessed with a wondrously craggy face and body, moves effortlessly from a young English sailor, to a German boy wracked with grief over the loss of his mother, to a French boulevardier, to the hideous Creature and more. A confident actor, Patterson takes time in each portrayal, which allows dramatic moments to sink deep into his character's reality. Indeed, he skillfully uses silence as well as he does dialogue to create believable inner life for all his six characters ... Forget any campy notions you have of Frankenstein. This piece of theater is high art. The characters in the story are driven by their own dreams and, ultimately, pride. It shakes us, entertains us and makes us think. It is worth every penny and every minute you spend on it."
Pam Harbaugh, Florida Today

"Frankenstein's enduring appeal is amply demonstrated by the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival's decision to revive Shelley's tale in a play that even uses her original title, Frankenstein: the Modern Prometheus. It employs one actor, alone on the stage. And the results, frankly, are stunning ... Patterson does a wonderfully imaginative job bringing the characters to life. He does this with unique changes in his voice, from the Yankee Captain Walton to the Germanic Doctor Frankenstein, to the low guttural moan of the creature as it learns to speak. His body language is just as impressive, from the dashing sea captain to the weak, dying scientist, who then becomes an energetic young student obsessed with the concept of reanimating the dead. Patterson provides a real tour de force as he commands the stage ... It's easy most times to forget the vital contributions that the theater's crew makes behind the scenes, particularly when you have a performer as talented as Patterson dominating the stage. But in this case, it's the cumulative effect of the entire crews' contributions that make this show so effective. In the spirit of Halloween, it would be hard to find better thrills than the ones provided by this very gifted actor and an equally talented stage crew. It's scary how good this one is."
Michael W. Freeman, The Ledger

"This one man tour de force is unsettling, spellbinding and a little psychotic. Steven Patterson plays all roles - Captain Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein, Doctor Krempe, Henri Clerval, and old man, and the Creature. At times he carries on complete conversations switching accents and answering himself in the process. Sybil herself would have problems keeping up with all this. I can hardly talk for two hours straight let alone speak words committed to memory and spoken in French, Swiss, and Monster accents. Patterson, who was last seen in last season's production of Julius Caesar as Cassius, makes it look effortless. He misses nary a beat. He is truly an amazing sight to behold. You have no problem keeping up with his many roles as he performs them all distinctly and individually - as if he has cloned himself and each clone studied the individual roles. The physicality of the role would have exhausted any mere human, but not Patterson. He climbed, fell, strode, collapsed, crawled, and crumpled with ease."
K.J. Roberts, theartsweb.blogs.com

"The Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival lets loose with yet another brilliant production. This one is Frankenstein: the Modern Prometheus. It stars the amazing actor, Steven Patterson. This is art, folks. Engrossing, entertaining and imbued with meaning."
Pam Harbaugh, Florida Today Blogs

"A Lear that hits home in the most elemental of ways ... A period dress production that feels new. Such actors as Eric Hissom (as the duplicitous Edmund) and Steven Patterson (as the blunt Kent) are speaking Shakespearean English, of course, but they speak it so matter-of-factly that it sounds modern and colloquial. There's no mistaking what they and their colleagues are saying; better yet, there's no mistaking what they mean and what they feel."
Elizabeth Maupin, Orlando Sentinel

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Steven traveled to Orlando, Florida to play Cassius in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar for the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival from April 14 - May 7, 2006 at the Lake Eola Amphitheatre. 

"A completely accessible, breathtakingly staged production featuring some mesmerizing acting ... As the principal conspirators, Brutus and Cassius, Dan McCleary and Steven Patterson are incredible ... Patterson gives a tour de force portrayal, a tough-as-nails military man whose mind always seems to be racing with thoughts of war. This is a riveting pair of actors, providing performances Orlando audiences will remember for years to come."
Matthew MacDermid, Talkin' Broadway (link to the full review here)
 

Prior to his sojourn in Florida, he played a brace of roles in a newly-revised version of the Broadway musical What Makes Sammy Run? at the West End Theatre (at the Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew) in Manhattan from January 19-29, 2006. For further information, click here.

 

Both John and Steven participated in a benefit reading (for the American Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, Not In Our Name, and Amnesty International) of Irwin Shaw's Bury The Dead  at Cooper Union on Monday evening, September 19th, 2005. Directed by Randall Stuart, it featured a MONSTER cast featuring such notables as Kathleen Chalfant, Buck Henry, and Denis O'Hare. For further information, check out the website for Upon These Boards, the Berkeley-based organization that presented the reading.

 

Steven also appeared in a reading of Larry Pontius' new play Boom Vang on November 1st, 2005 for Working Man's Clothes Productions. The play, directed by Steven Gillenwater and featuring Jason Grossman, Joshua Parrillo, Megan Rees, and Vanessa Sparling, was presented at the "Where Eagles Dare" Theatre @ 347 West 36th Street (between 8th & 9th Avenue).

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"All four performers (and the band accompanying them) received a well-deserved standing ovation ... Steven Patterson nearly brought down the house with his rendition of 'That's Life.'"
Don Chaddock, Auburn Sentinel

Steven appeared on the evening of April 18, 2005 as Ron in Ralda Lee's No Train as part of the 11th Annual Fifteen Minute Play Festival  presented annually by the American Globe Theatre and the Turnip Theatre Company. Margo Whitcomb directed.

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Prior to our move to NYC in September of 2004, Steven wrapped up a terrific summer gig with the Lake Tahoe and Sierra Shakespeare Festivals, where he appeared as Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing (directed by Philip Charles Sneed) and as Duke Senior in As You Like It (directed by Rebecca Dines) first in Sand Harbor, Nevada and then in Grass Valley, California.

Once we hit NY, he appeared at Dodger Stages (just a block & a half away from our new digs) in a number from The Shaggs at the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's October 3rd Songwriters' Showcase.

In late October, he returned to the Bay Area to appear in a series of readings of Randall Stuart's The Inkwell Communiques at Project Artaud, College of Marin, and Berkeley Rep's Roda Theatre. And he's currently auditioning his little ass off in the hopes that gainful (or at least artistically fulfilling) employment will continue to crop up.

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