Patrick Garone has been active in Chicago Theater for over fifteen years. He studied at Columbia College Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University and at Chicago's The Second City. He's been working with Salsation, Chicago's first and foremost Latino sketch comedy and improv troupe since 2003.
Check out some of his past productions:
Originally produced in 2005 as a studio production for Northeastern Illinois University's Theater department, Backwardly Mobile was remounted in late 2008 at Gorilla Tango Theater. This sci-fi infused sketch comedy show was written and directed by Patrick Garone and features cross-temporal outsourcing, Harry Potter transferring to public school, and time-traveling yuppies out to gentrify the past.
The Devil Wears Chanklas Patrick directed this 2008 Salsation sketch comedy revue, in which a woman re-examines her life after it is mercilessly parodied in an improv game. Other fun moments from this show include a man trying to fit in with his environmentally-conscious new friends, a racist GPS system, and pair of children in the not-to-distant future who discover a Menudo-related family secret.
In 2006. Patrick directed N. F. Simpson's absurdist British classic, Was He Anyone?, at Northeastern Illinois University. This sharply-written satire is the story of a man who falls overboard in the sea and the bureaucratic machinations that slowly move into place to get him rescued and the cause celeb that he becomes while treading water in the Mediterranean for several months.
The battle is on for the Latino identity in, The FANTA Menace! Patrick directed this 2006 Salsation show, which featured memorable sketches such as a musical version of Scarface, a novela-obsessed woman losing her grip on reality, and a leftist grandpa who tells the story of "How El Gringo Stole Texas."