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Patrick Myles is an Irish actor, filmmaker and producer.
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Patrick Myles is an Irish actor, filmmaker and producer.
Myles trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and with Philippe Gaulier.
He has appeared in Shakespeare plays, including Henry VI, Part 1 , Henry VI, Part 2 and Henry VI, Part 3 for Shakespeare's Globe; Much Ado About Nothing for Shakespeare in the Squares; Romeo and Juliet for Creation Theatre; and Romeo and Juliet and Othello for Midas Touch Productions.
He has appeared in two Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies, The Spanish Tragedy at the Arcola Theatre and The Revenger's Tragedy at the Southwark Playhouse. He appeared in the seventeenth-century comedy Tartuffe at the Arcola Theatre.
In twentieth-century drama, Myles has appeared in Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape at Southwark Playhouse; Towards Zero and The Unexpected Guest by Agatha Christie at The Mill at Sonning; Alan Ayckbourn's A Chorus of Disapproval ; The Freedom of the City and The Lady's Not for Burning at the Finborough Theatre; and Harold Pinter's Victoria Station at The King's Head Theatre.
His film and TV credits include BBC/HBO's Industry , The Bill and Secret Smile .
He wrote and directed the BAFTA-longlisted short film The Overcoat , with Jason Watkins, Vicki Pepperdine, Tim Key, Alex Macqueen and adapted from Nikolai Gogol's short story, A Pornographer Woos, with Michael Smiley and adapted from Bernard MacLaverty's short story, Henry VI, Part 1 as part of Shakespeare's Globe's Complete Walk, Telling Laura, with Colin Hoult and Louise Ford, Anthropopopometry, with Peter McDonald and Lloyd Hutchinson, Santa's Blotto, with Brian Blessed, which premiered at the BFI London Film Festival and was made with Film London support.[ clarification needed ] Other writing work includes Will: The Lost Years, which won the Channel Four/Stellar Network Pitch Up Competition in 2009.
Producing work includes the stage adaptation of Paddy Chayefsky's Network , in a co-production with the Royal National Theatre, which transferred to the Belasco Theatre on Broadway; the New York transfer of Fleabag at the SoHo Playhouse; David Mamet's American Buffalo at Circle in the Square Theatre; Martin McDonagh's Hangmen at the Golden Theater; Pictures from Home at Studio 54; Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill at Wyndham's Theatre, David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross at the Apollo Theatre; [1] the national tour of Phil Porter's adaptation of The Lavender Hill Mob ; and Family Affair by Alexander Ostrovsky at the Arcola Theatre.
In 2024, he adapted and directed Gogol's The Government Inspector at the Marylebone Theatre. [2] [3]
Myles was artistic director of Doublethink Theatre.
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