Patrick Kinyon

Bio: Patrick Kinyon (he/him) has been active in performance theater for over 30 years in Mendocino County. He began directing and performing in a shadow cast of The Rocky Horror Picture Show in the early nineties. Around the same time he got an AA in Art - Painting from Mendocino College. He worked with a local company that provided music lighting and audio sound systems. He later worked providing theatrical tech support to the high school and the Mendocino Ballet Company. 

Patrick eventually landed a contract for lighting a play (I Hate Hamlet) at the Ukiah Players Theatre in the mid nineties. He then went on to provide lighting and sound design for the next 15 years on main stage and smaller shows (over 100 shows) and became the Technical Director for UPT for over 10 years. Eventually he changed his focus and began acting in and directing shows. He still enjoys the technical side of things with Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street being his most recent lighting design at UPT. He has recently been working with Cloverdale Performing Arts Center (CPAC), both acting and directing.

With Hardly Artists he has branched out even further, and has been exploring the world of film production. In 2023 he wrote a short film, Table for One, and is now producing it with Hardly Artists. And this year he also directed the 72 Hour Horror Film Festival short film, Dead Stream, with Hardly Artists!

As an actor: Oklahoma, A Christmas Carol, 42nd Street, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Book of Days, Through the Looking Glass, Ages of Man - Youth, Brigadoon, Seussical, Spamalot, Mendocino College Festival of New Plays, Ave Q, Noises Off, Pride and Prejudice, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

As a director: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (shadow cast), Psycho Beach Party, The Illusion, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged,  All the Great Books Abridged,  SubUrbia, Talk Radio, My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra, The Original Hitchhiker Radio Plays, Table for One - short film, Dead Stream - short film, and The Great Gatsby: A Live Radio Play.