Allen Fitzpatrick
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| Allen Fitzpatrick | |
|---|---|
| Born | Allen Lloyd Fitzpatrick 1955 (age 68–69) Massachusetts, U.S. |
| 🏫 Education | University of Virginia (BA) |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 📆 Years active | 1975–present |
| 🌐 Website | allenfitzpatrick |
Allen Fitzpatrick is an American stage and film actor, director, singer, acting teacher, and former producing artistic director.
Background[edit]
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Fitzpatrick was an Echols Scholar at the University of Virginia,[1] where he appeared frequently as an actor with the Virginia Players.[2] His stage work includes eight Broadway shows[3] and several off-Broadway shows[4] in addition to pre-Broadway workshops, backers' auditions, off-off Broadway, original Cast recordings, Radio dramas, and roles in Regional theater in the United States.[5]
Television and film[edit]
On television, Fitzpatrick appeared several times on Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as well as soap operas One Life To Live, Guiding Light, Loving (TV series) and All My Children.
His film work includes Kissing Jessica Stein, The Silence At Bethany, Lincoln and the War Within, Bruce Beresford's Her Alibi, Animal Room, My Little Girl, Rocketmen, and The Maury Island Incident.
Broadway and other N.Y. Stage Work[edit]
Fitzpatrick made his first N.Y. off-Broadway appearance in a 1977 revival of Come Back, Little Sheba (play) at Equity Library Theatre.[6] He debuted on Broadway in 1991 as Thenardier in Les Misérables (musical).[7] He was featured in Broadway's Memphis (musical); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical), produced by Tony Randall;[8] Frank Wildhorn's The Scarlet Pimpernel (musical); Damn Yankees (opposite Jerry Lewis); The Boys From Syracuse (starring the late Rebecca Luker), and the 2001 revival of 42nd Street (musical). He was the standby for John Lithgow in Sweet Smell of Success (musical), directed by Sir Nicholas Hytner[9] and stood by for Boyd Gaines in the original Broadway production of Driving Miss Daisy (play), which opened on 25 October, 2010 at the John Golden Theatre; that production also starred James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave[10].
National Tours[edit]
He starred opposite Petula Clark in the national tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard (musical).[11] [12] He appeared with, and stood by for, Keith Michell in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Aspects of Love,[13] and with Marlo Thomas in the national tour of Six Degrees of Separation (play).[14] He was also featured in national tours of Disney's The Little Mermaid (musical),[15] Jerry Zaks' Guys and Dolls, and in a leading role in the world premiere of Whistle Down the Wind (1996 musical), directed by Harold Princel[16]
Off-Broadway[edit]
His off-Broadway leading roles include Ernest Hemingway in Mimi Le Duck[17] opposite Eartha Kitt, Jack's Holiday[18] as Jack The Ripper, Romola and Nijinsky, Elliot Ness in Cleveland, Peephole, Mata Hari (musical) (at the York Theatre), [19] Wonderful Town at Equity Library Theatre, Annie Warbucks with Harve Presnell at the Variety Arts, and the renowned 1990 revival of Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick's The Rothschilds (musical)[20] at Circle-In-The-Square Downtown, 159 Bleecker Street.
Seattle[edit]
Since 2006, Fitzpatrick has lived and worked primarily in Seattle, Washington. His body of work there includes 26 roles at the 5th Avenue Theatre[21]: Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (musical)[22], A Room With A View, Man of La Mancha, Disney's The Little Mermaid (musical), Kiss Me Kate, Paint Your Wagon (musical), Spamalot[23], Oliver!, Hairspray (musical), Grey Gardens (musical), Elf (musical), Damn Yankees, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, Titanic (musical), A Christmas Story: The Musical, Carousel (musical), Cinderella (Rodgers and Hammerstein musical), Candide (operetta), On The Town (musical), Sunday In The Park With George, Memphis (musical), Cabaret (musical), and Into The Woods. He starred there as Sweeney in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, receiving a Seattle Times' Footlight Award for Stellar Performance.[24]
Fitzpatrick was featured in many plays at Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT Theatre, and under Bartlett Sher's direction at the Intiman Theatre. These included productions of Ibsen in Chicago, Romeo and Juliet, Dirty Story, Mary Stuart, Sarah Ruhl's The Clean House, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (as both Ebeneezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley), Chekhov's Uncle Vanya[25], Richard III (play) directed by Bartlett Sher, Proof (play), Opus, Temple, and Noël Coward's Private Lives. He performed as a featured soloist at Benaroya Hall accompanied by Marvin Hamlisch and the Seattle Symphony in the legendary Sondheim Tribute[26].
Stage Director, Producer, Artistic Director[edit]
In December 2021 Fitzpatrick wrote, directed, and acted in an acclaimed solo version of A Christmas Carol[27] at Key City Public Theatre in Port Townsend, Washington and other venues. Also at Key City, he directed Gardner McKay's Sea Marks[28] and Annapurna. He directed the first Off-Broadway/NYC revival of Sea Marks in 2003; the first Seattle-area production of The Exonerated (play) (2007); Vesta (2008); readings of Dov and Ali by Anna Ziegler (2007) and Him by Daisy Foote, daughter of Horton Foote (2009); and Shiny Pair of Complications (2010 Bit Parts Festival at Freehold).
In 2007 Fitzpatrick founded the Icicle Creek Theatre Festival, later renamed the Icicle Creek New Play Festival. During his eleven-year tenure as Producing Artistic Director, he instituted a collaboration with Seattle’s ACT Theatre[29]. A 2012 merger with the Icicle Creek Center for the Arts expanded the Festival's theatre education program [30]
Awards[edit]
In addition to minor awards, Fitzpatrick shared an Emmy Award for his contribution to Stephen Sondheim's Passion on Live from Lincoln Center in which he appeared opposite Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald[31]
Selected filmography[edit]
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | The Maury Island Incident | The Man In Black |
| 2001 | Kissing Jessica Stein | Matthew |
| 1995 | Animal Room | Mr. Jennings |
| 1992 | Lincoln and the War Within | Abner Avery |
| 1989 | Her Alibi | Federal Agent |
| 1988 | The Silence at Bethany | Gideon Maust |
| 1986 | George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation | Lord Monmouth |
| 1986 | My Little Girl | Journalist |
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Z Nation | Prosecutor ("Day One") |
| 2005 | Sondheim's Passion Live from Lincoln Center | Colonel Ricci |
| 1996-2003 | Law & Order | Judge Berman (Smoke); Golding (Bait); Grimley (Corpus Delicti) |
| 2001 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Defense Counsel (Redemption); Dr. Safford (Abuse) |
References[edit]
- ↑ "Alumni US | University of Virginia (1975)". alumnius.net.
- ↑ "UVA / Department of Drama". University of Virginia. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ↑ "Allen Fitzpatrick – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB". www.ibdb.com.
- ↑ "Allen Fitzpatrick". www.iobdb.com.
- ↑ Lobdell, LaRae. "16 Minutes With Allen Fitzpatrick". PhotoSister. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ↑ Lash, Thomas (15 February 1977). "Well‐Directed 'Sheba' Transcends Play's Flaw". NY Times. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ↑ "Les Misérables Broadway: Allen Fitzpatrick". www.broadwaylesmis.com.
- ↑ Canby, Vincent (April 11, 1995). "THEATER REVIEW: GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES; Lorelei Lee Re-embarks for Paris" – via NYTimes.com.
- ↑ "Allen Fitzpatrick". Broadwayworld. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ↑ "Allen Fitzpatrick's Guide to Preparing for a Role". Virginia (Summer 2011). Summer 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ↑ Clark, Petula. "Petula's Sunset Boulevard U.S. Tour Journal". Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ↑ "Sunset Boulevard (2nd National Tour, 1998)". Ovrtur.
- ↑ "Aspects of Love (Tour)". IBDB.com. Internet Broadway Data Base. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ↑ "Six Degrees of Separation (Tour)". IBDB.com. Internet Broadway Data Base. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ↑ Mee, Dewey (8 December 2016). "'Little Mermaid' is mesmerizing". Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ↑ Harris, Paul (21 December 1996). "Whistle Down the Wind". Variety. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ↑ Genzlinger, Neil (7 November 2006). "Eartha Kitt and the Musical That Breaks Out Around Her". NY Times. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ↑ "Jack's Holiday". PlaywrightsHorizons.org. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ↑ Holden, Stephen (26 January 1996). "A Fictional Nemesis for a Legendary Spy". NY Times.
- ↑ Holden, Stephen (26 February 1990). "Spare Revival of a '70 Broadway Musical". NY Times. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ↑ "5th Avenue Theatre". 5thAvenueTheatre.org. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ↑ Musbach, Julie. "Full Cast Announced for THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME Starring Deaf Actor Joshua Castille". BroadwayWorld.com.
- ↑ "Allen Fitzpatrick, Laura Griffith & More to Lead 5th Avenue Theatre's SPAMALOT". Broadwayworld.com. 27 January 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ↑ "With a Cast of 26, 5th Avenue Theatre Stages Sweeney Todd in Seattle Oct. 25-Nov. 13". Playbill.
- ↑ Jacobson, Lynn (19 June 2007). "Uncle Vanya". Variety. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ↑ Keogh, Tom (17 February 2010). "Seattle Symphony Pops honors Sondheim with Hamlisch at the helm". Seattle Times. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ↑ Paz, Diane Urbani de la (December 22, 2021). "One-man 'Christmas Carol' a fresh version for Key City Public Theatre". Peninsula Daily News.
- ↑ "Sea Marks – October 3-20, 2019". keycitypublictheatre.org. Key City Public Theatre. 13 March 2019. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ↑ "ACT & Icicle Creek Announces New Play Festival: An Uncorked Conversation 8/23, 8/24". Broadwayworld.com. 18 May 2010. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ↑ Harding, James T. "Icicle Creek Announces YOUNG THEATER CAMP & More, Leavenworth". BroadwayWorld.com.
- ↑ "Stephen Sondheim's "Passion' (Live From Lincoln Center)". Emmys.com. Television Academy. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
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