Patricia Noonan

Biography

PATRICIA NOONAN is a bookwriter, librettist, actor, and teaching artist. Writing work includes the musicals Sweetwater (Goodspeed New Musicals Festival, NAMT Spotlight), Learning How to Drown (Goodspeed Grove, the Pitch at FLMTF), Masterpiece (workshop at Emerson College), and The Girl Who Fell Off the Key (for Bridge Arts Ensemble) as well as the plays An Appeal and Mermaid People. As an actor, New York credits include Death Takes a Holiday (Sophia, Roundabout), Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice (Elizabeth Bennet, Signature), Most Happy Fella, Annie Get Your Gun, Where’s Charley, Girl Crazy, and Merrily We Roll Along (all City Center Encores), Baby Case (Betty Gow), Edwin (Mollie Booth), Victory Train (Young Julie). Select Regional: Murder on the Orient Express (Mary Debenham, Ogunquit Playhouse), My Fair Lady (Eliza Doolittle, Guflshore Playhouse), Carousel (Julie Jordan, Barrington Stage), Neurosis (Abby, Finger Lakes), Pride & Prejudice (Elizabeth Bennet, La Mirada), Secret Garden (Lily, TheatreWorks Palo Alto), Camelot (Nimue, TUTS), Sondheim at 80 (Principal Soloist, Kennedy Center), Little House on the Prairie (Guthrie). Film: Light of the Moon, Zero Issue. TV: Law and Order: SVU (NBC), Carousel (Lincoln Center Live, PBS). Patricia has performed nationally with symphonies and orchestras and can be heard on the cast albums of Death Takes a Holiday and Merrily We Roll Along. She is also a co-founder of the #makeitfair Project, which advocates for gender parity in the entertainment industry and beyond.