Robert Patrick
Robert Patrick (1927-2023), son of migrant workers in the Southwest, wandered at 24 into the Caffe Cino in Greenwich Village during his first half-hour in Manhattan on September 14, 1961. He was for t... Read more
Robert Patrick (1927-2023), son of migrant workers in the Southwest, wandered at 24 into the Caffe Cino in Greenwich Village during his first half-hour in Manhattan on September 14, 1961. He was for three years an unpaid “temple slave” in that first off-off-Broadway theater where, as he phrased it, “theater entered the modern era.” He was pals and sometimes roommates to artists such as Lanford Wilson, Doric Wilson, Paul Foster, Tom Eyen, Sam Shepard, Jean-Claude van Itallie, Bob Heide, John Guare and William M. Hoffman, who in 1964 acted along with Patrick in Patrick’s first play, The Haunted Host, which went on to worldwide productions, including several starring Harvey Fierstein.