Patrick Gabridge
Patrick Gabridge is an MIT graduate and the son of a microbiologist—he grew up around biology labs in the 70s and 80s. He is the producing artistic director and founder of Plays in Place and has created site-specific plays in partnership with many museums and historic sites, including Mount Auburn Cemetery, Boston’s Old State House, the National Parks of Boston, Historic Northampton, and Old North Church, among others. He is an award-winning playwright and has written more than two dozen historical plays, along with many contemporary plays that have received productions from theatres and schools around the world (17 countries so far). He’s also a novelist, screenwriter, and writer of audio plays. In addition to Cambridge, look for additional site-specific plays this summer and fall in Newport, Deerfield, Northampton, and at the Old New-Gate Prison & Copper Mine in Connecticut.