Patrick Page

This article is about the actor and playwright. For the magician, see Pat Page (magician).

Patrick Page
Patrick Page in 2002
Born	John Patrick Page (1962-04-27) April 27, 1962 (age 62) Spokane, Washington, U.S.
Education	Allan Hancock College Whitman College (BA)
Occupations	Actor singer playwright
Years active	1989–present
Spouse	Paige Davis ​ (m. 2001)​
Website	patrickpageonline.com

John Patrick Page (born April 27, 1962) is an American actor, low bass singer, and playwright. Beginning his career in classical theatre and the works of Shakespeare, he originated the roles of the Grinch in Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical (2006), Norman Osborn/Green Goblin in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark (2011), and Hades in Hadestown (2019–2022), the last of which earned him a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical.

Early life and education

John Patrick Page was born in Spokane, Washington, and raised primarily in Monmouth, Oregon. His father, Robert Page, was a theatre educator at Western Oregon University (then named Oregon College of Education). Page's early love of Shakespeare took hold when his father performed with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon, in 1964–1965. His mother, Geri, was an administrator at Oregon State University. Patrick has two brothers, Robert and Michael, and one sister, Gayle. ^{[ citation needed ]}

In his teens, he developed an interest in magic and illusion. In 1978 he won the Pacific Coast Association of Magicians Stage Competition and in 1979 he was chosen by the International Brotherhood of Magicians as the Outstanding Teenage Magician in the stage-magic category.

Page attended Central High School in Independence, Oregon, graduating in 1980. During high school, Page was active not only in theater, but also in speech and debate tournaments and became the first person to win the national championship title twice, as the National Forensics League's Speaker of the Year in both 1979 and 1980. Next, he attended the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts at Allan Hancock College. He then graduated cum laude from Whitman College in 1985 and was chosen as the valedictory speaker for his class. During his time at Whitman, Page was twice chosen as the Outstanding Competitive Speaker in the Nation by the American Forensics Association, leading the Whitman team to an overall second-place finish at Nationals.

Career

1993–2010: Early roles and Broadway debut

Page's early career was spent primarily in Utah and Oregon. Page spent six seasons with the Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City, becoming a Resident Artist and the Director of Development, during which time he helped oversee the creation of the new Randall L. Jones Theatre. During the off-season he frequently performed with the Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City. Subsequently, he spent several seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, before branching out to other regional theatres and eventually moving to New York.

Page's Broadway credits include originating the role of The Grinch in Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! , ^[1] Scar in The Lion King and Lumière in Disney's Beauty and the Beast in the U.S. National Tours, both of which he later reprised on Broadway, Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden, Decius Brutus in Julius Caesar (opposite Denzel Washington), and multiple roles in The Kentucky Cycle . His performance as King Henry VIII (opposite Frank Langella) in the Broadway revival of A Man for All Seasons ^[2] in 2008 was nominated for the Outer Critics Award and chosen by The Wall Street Journal as one of the outstanding theatre performances of that year.

Off-Broadway, he has been seen in Richard II, Rex, and The Duchess of Malfi. Page is also widely recognized as one of America's leading classical actors. He is an Affiliate Artist of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., and an Artist in Residence at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. As a member of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, he, along with other company members, received the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre (Will Award) in 2007. In 2006 Page was awarded the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Leading Performance by an Actor for his portrayal of Iago in Michael Kahn's production of Othello at The Shakespeare Theatre. Washington Post critic Peter Marks cited Page's Iago as one of five outstanding American performances of Shakespeare in his lifetime, along with Stacy Keach, Liev Schreiber, Kevin Kline, and Michael Hayden. Page's other performances at STC include the title role in Macbeth (opposite Kelly McGillis) and Claudius in Hamlet. He starred in the title role of King Lear at the Shakespeare Theatre Company through April 8, 2023.

At the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, Page's performance in the title role of Cyrano De Bergerac won the Craig Noel, San Diego Critics, and Patte Awards for Outstanding Leading Actor in a Play. He has also been seen at the Globe as Malvolio in Twelfth Night , Pogo Poole in The Pleasure of His Company , and Geoffrey Cordova in Dancing in the Dark (aka The Band Wagon ) for which he also received the Craig Noel Award. Page has performed at many of America's leading regional theatres. His classical performances include Cyrano, Sergius, Hamlet, Richard II, Richard III, Oberon, Henry V, Talbot, Pinch, Armado, Mercutio, Brutus, Antony, Dr. Caius, Autolycus, Pandarus, Brazen, Hortensio, Malvolio, Horatio, Claudius, Iago, Jaques, Macbeth, and Benedick. Page is also a playwright. In 2004 his play Swansong debuted at the Lucille Lortel White Barn Theatre in Norwalk, Connecticut, and was named one of the top ten plays of the year by the American Theatre Critics Association. It later played at the Kennedy Center, ^[3] the Seattle Shakespeare Company, ^[4] and Off-Broadway on Theatre Row. ^[5]

Page is also the author of the one-man shows Passion's Slaves and Love Will, and the co-author (with Doug Christensen and Larry Baker) of Nothing Like the Sun. Page authored a popular stage adaptation of A Christmas Carol. Page is also an acting teacher who has worked at NYU's Tisch Graduate School of the Arts, the Old Globe's MFA program, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's MFA program, Southern Utah University, and many others. He now teaches privately in New York City. He has directed Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night, and many more.

2011–2017: Theatre roles

Page created the dual role of Norman Osborn and his alter ego the Green Goblin in Julie Taymor's Broadway rock musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark , which played at the Foxwoods Theatre until January 2014. Premiering in June 2011, it featured music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge. Page's performance received positive reviews and was quoted as being one of the main reasons to see the show. ^{[6] [7]} For this performance, he received a nomination for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical. ^[8] Page left the show on August 5, 2012, to star in the new Broadway production of Cyrano De Bergerac which ran for a limited engagement from September to November 2012. His role in Spider-Man was taken over by Robert Cuccioli.

Page played the title role in Shakespeare Theatre Company's Coriolanus from March to June 2013. ^[9] Page appeared in the Broadway production of John Grisham's A Time to Kill . The production started on September 28, 2013, and officially opened on October 20, 2013. ^[10] He appeared in the new play Casa Valentina , which opened on Broadway in April 2014. ^[11] He originated the role of Frollo in the U.S. premiere of The Hunchback of Notre Dame , ^[12] made his Shakespeare in the Park debut in Cymbeline , and in fall 2015 played Adult Men in the Spring Awakening revival produced by Deaf West and directed by his Hunchback co-star Michael Arden.

2018–present: Hadestown

Page played Hades in productions of Hadestown at the New York Theatre Workshop, at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton, ^[13] and at London's Royal National Theatre. ^[14] He reprised the role of Hades on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre beginning in March 2019, ^[15] receiving a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. ^[16] The role features Page singing as low as a G1, which is one of the lowest notes playable on a piano ^[17] On November 2, 2022, it was announced that Page would be exiting Hadestown on December 30, after six years in the role. ^[18] Page is set to reprise the role from February and March 2025 for his West End debut opposite his original Broadway cast costars. ^{[19] [20]}

Page also played a role in the 2022 musical film Spirited as Jacob Marley alongside Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell.

In 2024, Page began a national tour of "All the Devils are Here," a one-man show exploring Shakespeare's villains. The play opened at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis.

Page played Satan in the Helluva Boss episode “Mastermind.” He will portray the Magic Mirror in Disney's 2025 film, Snow White . ^[21]

Personal life

He was married to actress Liisa Ivary from 1989 to 1991. In 2001, he married actress and TV personality Paige Davis (TLC's Trading Spaces , Broadway's Chicago and Boeing-Boeing ). The Pages said in 2009: "We've been a couple for 14 years and married for eight of them..." ^{[22] [23]}

He has been an outspoken advocate for mental-health awareness and has spoken publicly about his lifelong experience with deep depression, which he now manages with medication: "It took a long time to get my medications right. I have variously been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, depressive disorder—you name it. It takes constant vigilance to keep up with my sneaky serotonin levels. And—full disclosure—there were years of dangerous substance abuse as I attempted to self-medicate my symptoms." ^[24] Page also suffers from hearing loss and has been an advocate for adding closed captioning to live musicals, as well as increasing the volume soundtracks are recorded at.

Acting credits

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	The Substance of Fire	Mr. McCormack Jr.
2013	Sing Along	Homeless Guy	Short film
2014	Affluenza	Jack Goodman
2015	I Am Michael	Bible Teacher
	A Warrior's Tail	Elza (voice)	English dub
2021	In the Heights	Pike Phillips
	The Sixth Reel	Mr. Beltrane
2022	Spirited	Jacob Marley
2025	Snow White	Magic Mirror	Voice & motion capture

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	The Animated Book of Mormon	King Lamoni (voice)	Episode: "Ammon, Missionary to the Lamanites"
1991	Animated Hero Classics	Bosco (voice)	Episode: "Christopher Columbus"
2007	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Jack Rexton	Episode: "Harm"
2011	Late Night with David Letterman	Green Goblin (uncredited)	Episode: "Bono & The Edge/Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark"
2012	The Good Wife	Horton Baker	Episode: "After the Fall"
2015	Flesh and Bone	Sergei Zelenkov	Miniseries; 6 episodes
	Elementary	Jonathan Bloom	2 episodes
2016	The Blacklist	Rene Le Bron	Episode: "The Thrushes (No. 53)"
2017	Chicago P.D.	Calvin Huntley	Episode: "Little Bit of Light"
	Madam Secretary	Reverend Slattery	3 episodes
2018	NCIS: New Orleans	General Stanley Parker	Episode: "Welcome to the Jungle"
2020	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Alistair Woodford	Episode: "Dance, Lies and Videotape"
2020–22	Evil	Father Luke	2 episodes
2022–present	The Gilded Age	Richard Clay	15 episodes
2023	Schmigadoon!	Octavius Kratt	5 episodes
	Big Mouth	Dread (voice)	2 episodes
2024	Helluva Boss	Satan (voice)	Episode: "Mastermind"

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	The Kentucky Cycle	Various	Original Broadway cast
1995–97	Beauty and the Beast	Lumière	National Tour
1999–2001			Broadway replacement
2002	The Lion King	Scar	National Tour
2003	Beauty and the Beast	Lumière	Broadway replacement
2005	Julius Caesar	Decius Brutus Messala Ensemble Understudy for Cassius	Original Broadway cast
2005–06	The Lion King	Scar	Broadway Replacement
2006	Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical	The Grinch	Original Broadway cast
2007	The Lion King	Scar	Broadway Replacement
	Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical	The Grinch	Original Broadway cast
2008	A Man for All Seasons	King Henry VIII
2010	Oliver!	Fagin	Benedum Center for the Performing Arts
2011	Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark	Norman Osborn The Green Goblin	Original Broadway cast
2012	Anastasia	Vlad Popov	Reading
	Cyrano de Bergerac	Comte de Guiche	Original Broadway cast
2013	A Time to Kill	Rufus R. Buckley
2014	Casa Valentina	George Valentina
	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Dom Claude Frollo	La Jolla Playhouse Paper Mill Playhouse
2015–16	Spring Awakening	Adult Men	Original Broadway Revival Cast
2016	Hadestown	Hades	Off-Broadway
	An Act of God	Voice of God	Prerecorded
2017	Hadestown	Hades	Canada
	A Musical Christmas Carol	Ebenezer Scrooge	The Byham Theater
2018	Saint Joan	The Inquisitor Robert de Baudricourt	Original Broadway cast
2018–19	Hadestown	Hades	London
2019–20			Original Broadway cast
2021–22
2023	King Lear	Lear	Shakespeare Theatre Company
2023–24	All the Devils Are Here	Performer	Off-Broadway Also created the show
2025	Hadestown	Hades	West End replacement [19]

Podcasts

Year	Title	Voice role	Ref.
2020	Little Did I Know	Dr. Barrows	[25]
2020–21	In Strange Woods	Howl	[26]
2021	Marvel’s Wastelanders: Star-Lord	Kraven the Hunter

Awards and nominations

Page has received a variety of awards and accolades throughout his career, including a Grammy Award, a Helen Hayes Award, a Princess Grace Award, an Emery Battis Award, the Utah Governors Medal for the Arts, the Whitman College Young Alumni Award, the Craig Noel Award, and the Joseph Jefferson Award, as well as having received a Tony Award nomination.

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2009	Outer Critics Circle Award	Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play	A Man for All Seasons	Nominated
2012	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical	Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark	Nominated
	Outer Critics Circle Award	Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical		Nominated
2014	San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award	Outstanding Featured Male Performance in a Musical	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Won
2017	Lucille Lortel Award	Outstanding Actor in a Musical	Hadestown	Nominated
2019	Tony Award	Best Featured Actor in a Musical		Nominated
2020	Grammy Award	Best Musical Theater Album		Won	[27]
2023	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series	The Gilded Age	Nominated	[28]
2024	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Solo Performance	All the Devils Are Here	Won
	Outer Critics Circle Award	Outstanding Solo Performance		Won	[29]

References

1. Gans, Andrew (2007-08-27). "Page Will Be Green Again for Broadway's Grinch". Playbill. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
2. "A Man for All Seasons". Broadway.com. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
3. "2006 Prelude Festival Theater Events". The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Archived from the original on 2006-10-09.
4. Adcock, Joe (2008-01-03). "The rivalry's the thing in 'Swansong,' a play about Shakespeare and Jonson". Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
5. Simonson, Robert (2006-07-05). "Third Annual Summer Play Festival Begins Off-Broadway Run on July 5". Playbill. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
6. Gans, Andrew (2010-08-10). "Reeve Carney, Jennifer Damiano, Patrick Page to Star in Spider-Man; Performances Begin in November". Playbill. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
7. Hetrick, Adam (2011-01-13). "Troubled Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark Delays Broadway Opening Again". Playbill. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
8. Gans, Andrew (2012-04-27). "Drama Desk Nominations Announced; Death Takes a Holiday and Follies Lead the Pack". Playbill. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
9. "Shakespeare's Coriolanus". Red Bull Theater. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
10. Gans, Andrew (2013-07-26). "Patrick Page, Tonya Pinkins and More Will Join Sebastian Arcelus, Fred Dalton Thompson in Broadway's A Time to Kill". Playbill. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
11. Purcell, Carey. "Harvey Fierstein's 'Casa Valentina', Starring Patrick Page, Mare Winningham and Gabriel Ebert, Begins Broadway Performances April 1" Archived 2014-04-06 at the Wayback Machine playbill.com, April 1, 2014
12. Peterson, Tyler (2014-09-04). "Patrick Page, Michael Arden, Ciara Renee & More to Lead THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME at La Jolla Playhouse!". BroadwayWorld.
13. Gans, Andrew (2017-10-11). "Spider-Man's Patrick Page, Reeve Carney, and T.V. Carpio Will Reunite for Hadestown in Canada". Playbill. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
14. "Hadestown | National Theatre". www.nationaltheatre.org.uk. 2018-04-11. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
15. McPhee, Ryan (2019-01-28). "Eva Noblezada, Amber Gray, Patrick Page, More to Star in Hadestown on Broadway". Playbill. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
16. Rosky, Nicole (2019-04-30). "2019 Tony Awards Nominees - Complete List! HADESTOWN Leads with 14 Nominations". BroadwayWorld.
17. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/26022/Gussin%2C%20Jeremy%20%28DM%20Voice%29.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y ^{[ bare URL PDF ]}
18. Lindsay, Benjamin (2022-11-02). "'Hadestown' Star Patrick Page to Take His Final Bow as Hades in December (Exclusive)". The Wrap. Retrieved 2022-11-02.
19. HADESTOWN Original Broadway Cast Members Will Join London Production Broadway World, December 18, 2024
20. Gans, Andrew (2024-12-18). "Eva Noblezada, André De Shields, Reeve Carney, Amber Gray, Patrick Page Will Join West End Hadestown Cast". Playbill. Retrieved 2024-12-18.
21. Sharpe, Josh (2024-12-04). "Patrick Page Transforms Into SNOW WHITE's Magic Mirror in Behind-the-Scenes Photos". BroadwayWorld. Retrieved 2024-12-18.
22. Diamond, Robert (2009-10-26). "Real-Life Married Couple Paige Davis & Patrick Page Open I DO! I DO! at The Old Globe". BroadwayWorld.
23. Hebert, James (2009-12-06). "It's 'I Do! I Do!' all over again for married pair". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
24. "Patrick Page Shares His Personal Struggle with Depression; Reflects on Deaths of Kate Spade & Anthony Bourdain". Patrick Page. 2018-06-08. Archived from the original on 2019-01-02. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
25. Gans, Andrew (2020-03-30). "Lesli Margherita, Patrick Page, More Featured in Musical Podcast Little Did I Know". Playbill. Archived from the original on 2020-04-01. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
26. Cristi, A.A. (2020-11-30). "Beth Leavel, Patrick Page and More Join IN STRANGE WOODS Musical Podcast". Broadway World. Archived from the original on 2020-12-01. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
27. "2020 GRAMMYs Awards Show: Complete Winners & Nominations List". www.grammy.com. Retrieved 2023-01-15.
28. "Nominations Announced for the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®" (Press release). Screen Actors Guild. 2024-01-10. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
29. Culwell-Block, Logan (2024-05-13). "Stereophonic Leads 2024 Outer Critics Circle Awards, Wins Best Play; See the Full List of Winners". Playbill. Retrieved 2024-05-13.

External links

• Official Site
• Patrick Page at the Internet Broadway Database
• Patrick Page at IMDb
• Feature article at Playbill.com