Patrick Mulryan

Patrick Mulryan is a queer New York City-based voice and dialect coach as well as a director, actor, and teacher. The focus of his work is on expanding one’s expressive palette and sense of self through freeing one's authentic voice and, through that process, expanding our capacity for empathy.

Patrick currently serves as Dialect Associate for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway. Past coaching credits include Lost in Yonkers at Hartford Stage (co-directed by and starring Academy Award nominee Marsha Mason) and Sweat at the Huntington Theatre Company, for which the cast received the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Ensemble.

Directing credits include a production of Tom Stoppard's Indian Ink in Brooklyn. Previously, he served as director and adaptor for a production entitled Raison d’être: an Evening of Pirandello, which ran at Theatre 71 on New York’s Upper West Side (J Jewell Productions). The Pirandello Society of America Journal published an interview with him on the subject of adaptation. Other credits include Goblin Market (J Jewell Productions), which he directed in New York at 59E59 and abroad at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival. He also directed the MFA Acting Showcase at Brooklyn College from 2019 to 2023.

As an actor, he appeared in the Fiasco Theater's acclaimed production of Into the Woods in London at the Menier Chocolate Factory as well as in New York at The Roundabout Theatre (Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival) and on tour, for which he received an LA Drama Critics Award. Other performance credits include Relentlessly Gay Brunch (EST); Fiasco's Cymbeline (Barrow Street, TFANA); Bum Phillips All-American Opera (La MaMa); As You Like It (Happy Few Theatre Company, NYIT Award Nomination); Fiasco’s Into the Woods (McCarter, Old Globe); Cabaret and The Importance of Being Earnest (Trinity Rep); and Chain of Fools (Guthrie). 

Patrick has been a lecturer/guest artist in voice and speech at Brooklyn College, the New Group, NYU, Wesleyan, Pace, SUNY Purchase, Fordham, and the Tom Todoroff Studio. He has developed work with the Tectonic Theater Project, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Page 73, Ma-Yi, TFANA, Fiasco, Bay Street, Lark, New Georges, and at the O'Neill Center (NMTC).  

Patrick received his MFA in Acting from Brown University/Trinity Rep. Other training includes Moscow Art Theatre (NTI), Oberlin College (BA), and Guthrie Experience for Actors in Training (GEx 13).  

Patrick is a member of the Actors Center Workshop Company, the National Alliance of Acting Teachers, VASTA, the Dramatists Guild, and Phi Beta Kappa. Patrick is also a board member of Colored Criticism, an organization that highlights the voices of artists, audiences, and professionals historically sidelined from cultural criticism. He is a certified teacher of the Miller Voice Method (mVm) and is a student of Knight-Thompson Speechwork.