Patrick A Riviere

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Patrick Riviere, born in Batavia, NY on June 2, 1966, is an American actor, playwright, teacher, and arts administrator. Throughout his career, he has worked in a variety of areas within the entertainment industry. In 2012, he was featured in the book, Legendary Locals of Orleans County. He created the voices of Jimmy the Cabin Boy and Dr. Einkopf in the popular sci-fi animated spoof, Captain Stargood. In 2018, he starred in a regional commercial for Sparks Law that debuted during the Super Bowl LII on WJAR playing an older Jon Snow. The commercial won a Gold Telly Award. He was most recently the Director of Development at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater. His play, The House of Nunzio, has had a storied development history and was recently given a staged reading as part of ArtWeek at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater and then selected for the First Annual Barnstable Comedy Club Playwrights Festival.

Personal Life

Riviere grew up in Albion, NY, the son of Genevieve Helen Monacelli and Aubrey J Riviere. His only sibling, Jack Thomas (Jackie), had Down Syndrome and died at the age of sixteen when Patrick was just fourteen. He attended Charles D'Amico High School where he began to cultivate his love for music and the arts. He was the first drum major from Albion in fifty years to win Best Drum Major for Marching Band at Seneca Falls, New York Pageant of Bands and the first to win Best Actor in a Musical at State University of New York at Geneseo Theater Festival, which he accomplished two years in a row. He was also selected during his Junior Year to represent his school at American Legion Boys' State. He graduated from Niagara University with honors and a degree in Theatre and English in 1988. He currently resides in North Truro, Massachusetts. He is also a "foodie" and, for a short time while living in Los Angeles, had a web series entitled, Cooking Easy With Patrick. He spent a great deal of his adult life in New Jersey. In 2018, he was instrumental in securing an honor for his late mother as part of the inaugural March Forth Event.

Career

Riviere's performing career began at the age of ten when he was cast in the 1976 Bicentennial Roadshow in Western New York. He performed throughout High School and during his tenure at Niagara University starred in a variety of main-stage productions and at nearby Artpark where he starred as Che in Evita and was in the cast of the North American Premiere of I and Albert by Charles Strause. In 1988, he created the role of Saint Vincent de Paul in the World Premiere of Vincent in Heaven and would return to re-create the role at his Alma mater in 1990. During his senior year, he also wrote his first play, I Found My Soul Today, Did You? which was produced as part of the NU One Act Festival in 1988. He then moved to New York City and began performing Off-Off Broadway until his professional debut in South Pacific at Candlewood Playhouse in 1991. He moved to Chicago in the early 90's with a theatre company he had co-founded, The Emerging Artists Project, Inc., where he created PIE (Projects In Education) Story Theatre. He would star in an original musical presented by the PIE troupe entitled Hans Clodhopper's Greatest Adventure. PIE has seen troupes in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and most recently celebrated its Massachusetts Premiere. PIE also recorded a Holiday Stories and Carols CD which Riviere produced and starred in. While in Chicago, his first full-length play was given a World Premiere. He moved back to New York City and began to pursue administrative work including Education Director for Second Stage Theatre. After his mother's sudden death in 1997, he was named the first Industry/Professional Liaison for NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. In 2001, he returned to his performing career and played Snoopy in the tribute production of You're A Good Man Charlie Brown. One reviewer compared his tour-de-force performance to Nathan Lane. He also performed in the American Premiere of Welcome To Our City at The Mint Theatre and starred in the short film based on Steven King’s A Very Tight Place. He has also starred in a variety of plays and musicals in his career including Man of La Mancha The Last Days of Judas Iscariot and Family Dinner and has starred in a variety of new works in development: Go, Go Beach, Marie Laveau Voodoo Legend, and The Beachcomber Boys. directed by David Drake.

Riviere served for one year as Associate Director for The Hudson Riverfront Performing Arts Center in New Jersey and as Artistic Director of All Seasons Theatre Company. He also worked for both The Charles A. Dana Foundation and The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. His play, The House of Nunzio, has been named a semi-finalist in three national competitions and in 2015 received a staged reading in New York City. He was nominated for a Pryor Award in 2012 for his role as El Gallo in The Fantasticks and for an MITF Award in 2008 for his role as Manos in the World Premiere of Opa! The Musical. While in Los Angeles, he co-starred in the American Premiere of The Imaginary Life of the Street Sweeper August G at Casa 0101 Theater. In 2013, Riviere reunited with his college colleague Michele Ragusa for a concert performance of Kiss Me Kate at Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo. In 2016, he had the great privilege of singing with Tony Award winning actress Patti LuPone at Town Hall in Provincetown and was also one of the featured singers at the Broadway Concerts in Provincetown.

External links

• Official website
• *Patrick Riviere at Internet Movie Database
• *Patrick Riviere at The Dramatists Guild

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