MICHAEL FITZPATRICK

...trained as an irrigation engineer and found construction skills to be a useful preparation for university theatre. Since then, he has lived and worked in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia, managing to appear in Kathmandu as Lord Foppington in The Relapse, Hound in The Real Inspector Hound and Stanley in The Birthday Party. In Italy, he has appeared regularly with The English Theatre of Rome since 1997 in both its one-act seasons and a number of full-length plays. These have included: Death in the Park, End of the Road, The Proposal, Homeward Bound, Brilliant Lies and the Pulitzer prize-winning The Gin Game. Other theatre appearances in Rome have included Goldberg in The Birthday Party, Fagin in Oliver!, Jerry in Betrayal, Coward in Cowardy Custard, and Frank in Memory of Water. Shakespearian roles have included Baptista, Sir John Falstaff and Leonato, and he has directed Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads, The Real Inspector Hound and Art.

A Michael Fitzpatrick Portfolio