Patrick Dunning is an actor, sound designer, teaching artist, and stage manager based in Brooklyn, New York. Originally from Salem, Massachusetts, he got his start in the performing arts by slamming whipped cream pies in his face for a 5th-grade class adaptation of Aesop’s “The Tortoise and the Hare” fable. He kept performing from then onward, taking advantage of school opportunities for musical theatre and modern drama. During the summers he focused on classical theatre, acting in Salem’s Rebel Shakespeare Company during his high school years and returning as a director while in college.

In New York, Pat has performed at La MaMa, BAM, Wild Project, The Tank, The Brick, Columbia School of the Arts, NYTW and more, and he is a member of Krymov Lab NYC. His acting and theatre work is frequently based in devised theatre and new play development. He is interested in work that crosses theatre with other performance mediums, and work that adapts and revitalizes older texts. Pat holds a degree in Drama from Vassar College, where he studied acting and devised theatre and was a member of the Vassar College Shakespeare Troupe. He has studied acting at the Atlantic Acting School, Moscow Art Theatre School (National Theatre Institute MATS Program) and at Konstantin Raikin’s Higher School of Performing Arts in Moscow.