Patrick Landes

Patrick Landes

Patrick Gallagher Landes is a playwright, stage manager, director, and actor based out of Washington D.C. His plays, "Tiles," "Blueberries," (National Theater Institute) "Goats," "The Heroes Don't Come Home," "MEAT," "A Tale of Boys with Wings," "Ten Tales of Freefall," (Connecticut College) and one minute plays "The Millard...
Patrick Gallagher Landes is a playwright, stage manager, director, and actor based out of Washington D.C. His plays, "Tiles," "Blueberries," (National Theater Institute) "Goats," "The Heroes Don't Come Home," "MEAT," "A Tale of Boys with Wings," "Ten Tales of Freefall," (Connecticut College) and one minute plays "The Millard Fillmore Game Show," "John Tylor Community College," "James Madison: Vampire Slayer," "I, Smoker, Fight Wars with Cigarettes (or FDR on the Front Lines)" and "Rock Climbing with Gary "Jaguar" Johnson" (Gateway Arts Ensemble) have been developed as readings. Patrick likes to create new worlds that make us question and rebel against the world we live in and has a real soft spot for Sam Beckett, John Guare, and Paula Vogel. He is currently looking to read plays that happen after environmental disasters.

Plays

  • Tiles by Patrick Landes
    Cast: 
    4–200
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    Genre: drama, experimental
    Genre: drama, experimental
    1, 2, and 3 are brought into this world on tiles. They explore the strange and new rules of this strange and new world that is meant to be perfect. They test these rules when pain and love become unbearable and their world unravels.
  • A Tale of Boys with Wings by Patrick Landes
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6–7
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    Genre: drama, fable/folktale + 3 more
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    Keyword: disability
    Genre: drama, fable/folktale, fantasy, mystery/thriller, tragedy
    Keyword: disability
    This play is about Ian, an incredibly creative boy who loses the use of his legs when he gets into a car crash with his father. Ian’s grief as a result of losing the use of his legs and anger at himself and his father causes the toys that he played with as a child, Icarus and Daedalus, to come to life in his room. He manipulates these characters by forcing them to help him make wings that will help him make an...
    This play is about Ian, an incredibly creative boy who loses the use of his legs when he gets into a car crash with his father. Ian’s grief as a result of losing the use of his legs and anger at himself and his father causes the toys that he played with as a child, Icarus and Daedalus, to come to life in his room. He manipulates these characters by forcing them to help him make wings that will help him make an escape from the confines of his situation.
  • MEAT by Patrick Landes
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy, fantasy
    Genre: dark comedy, fantasy
    An imprisoned king is turning into the food he eats. A woman drinks heavily from a wine bottle as her husband goes on a bigoted rant and eats her food. Their worlds collide and she is set free. A very strange manifesto against sexism and the food industrial complex.
  • The Heroes Don't Come Home by Patrick Landes
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama, tragedy
    Genre: drama, tragedy
    Molly and Rex Lamont have sent their fifteen children away to fight for a country that they love. Thirteen of them have died. Their house is a mess and Molly can't get out of her chair and Rex can't step away from the window. Then their daughter comes home with a letter.
  • The President Plays by Patrick Landes
    Cast: 
    4–20
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    Genre: comedy, docudrama/historic + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, docudrama/historic, political
    This is a collection of one-minute plays that were written as a part of a larger collaborative project with Gateway Arts Ensemble's "A Minute in Presidential History."Their titles are "The Millard Fillmore Game Show," "John Tylor Community College," "James Madison: Vampire Slayer," "I, Smoker, Fight Wars with Cigarettes (or FDR on the Front Lines)" and...
    This is a collection of one-minute plays that were written as a part of a larger collaborative project with Gateway Arts Ensemble's "A Minute in Presidential History."Their titles are "The Millard Fillmore Game Show," "John Tylor Community College," "James Madison: Vampire Slayer," "I, Smoker, Fight Wars with Cigarettes (or FDR on the Front Lines)" and "Rock Climbing with Gary "Jaguar" Johnson." I encourage flexible casting in regards to race and gender.