Patrick Page

John Patrick Page (born April 27, 1962) is an American actor, low bass singer, and playwright.

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.

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.

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.

Page attended Central High School in Independence, Oregon, graduating in 1980.

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.

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!, 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.

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, the Seattle Shakespeare Company, and Off-Broadway on Theatre Row.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

His performance as King Henry VIII (opposite Frank Langella) in the Broadway revival of A Man for All Seasons 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.