Patrick Michael Stewart - Performer

Patrick Michael Stewart is a performer and deviser. He is a graduate of the Samuel Beckett Centre, TCD. He has toured in Ireland, the UK and New York as a performer and dancer in Thomas Lehmen’s ’It Is Better To’ commissioned by Irish Modern Dance Theatre (Nominated for Best Show and Sexiest Show in Dublin Fringe Awards and for Most Innovative Production in Dance Europe Awards)

In 2004 he directed an acclaimed production of Peter Brook’s ‘The Man Who’ on the Dublin Fringe (Nominated for Fringe/Project Commission Award). In 2007 (Dublin Fringe) and 2008 (Dublin Theatre Festival) he performed in Caligula by David Greig in a Rough Magic Seeds production that was nominated for Best Production in the Irish Times Theatre Awards. He also works in Film PR and Theatre Production.

With the Performance Corporation’s Space Programme 2009 Patrick investigated sensory deprivation performance systems in elevators, cut up people’s mediated faces and put them all over the shop, bounced with Valeria, slowly transformed in to a woman on screen, tried to embody the NASDAQ in performance and drew inspiration from the amazing people and the places for future projects.