Patrick Breen, actor, is a founding member of the Naked Angels Theater company and a member of MCC Theater. As a writer, he is most well known for “Just A Kiss” a movie directed by Fisher Stevens released in 2002, starring Kyra Sedgwick, Marisa Tomei, Taye Diggs, Ron Eldard, and Marley Shelton. HIs Broadway credits include “The Normal Heart,” “Brighton Beach Memoirs,” and “The Big River.” Off Broadway includes: “Fuddy Meers,” “The Substance Of Fire,” “Celebration/The Room,” “View Of The Dome,” “Baby Anger,” “The Hothouse,” and “Life And Limb.”
His films include roles in “Men in Black,” “Get Shorty,” “Cirque Du freak,” “Radio,” “One True Thing,” “Christmas With The Kranks,” “Just A Kiss,” and “The Bleeding House.” Television roles include: “The Good Wife,” “Nurse Jackie,” “Kevin Hill,” “Sex And The City,” “Law and Order,” “Will And Grace,” “CSI,” “Frasier” and “21 Jump Street.”
Patrick was born in Brooklyn, but raised in Staten Island. His interest in the tangible arts dates back to fourth grade when an astute curator scooped up his “Collage Of Eyes,” an Warwellian dreamscape of ocularity excised from magazines and crudely Elmered onto construction paper, and included it in a prestigious Staten Island art show of 1969.
It was at that show where, though it was mostly hidden behind a door in a hallway between galleries, the poignant metaphor of his searching and curious boyhood soul hung, which forty years later finds expression in the gallery he now operates with Willie Garson. He went to NYU.
Rex Sikes’ Movie Beat chats with actor Patrick Breen
