Patricia Noonan is a storyteller who collaborates to expand the stories

we tell about women, increase access to arts education,

and inspire others to share their voices. 

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Who creates the stories that shape us? And how do these stories affect the decisions we make, the stories we tell ourselves, and the limits of who we think we can be?

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These questions have shaped Patricia’s path since she was a kid growing up in Philadelphia. Going to a Quaker school, she was taught early on to question the stories in our myths and history books, on our stages and screens, and dig deeper to uncover the aspects of our past and of ourselves that lie hidden on the margins. When, several years into her acting career in New York, she found herself in conversation after conversion about the lack of roles for women and the lack of gender parity in the industry and beyond, she knew she wanted to (as Michelangelo would say) criticize by creating. 

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Now, through her work as an actor, writer, coach, and educator, she aims to contribute to and to foster some of the many voices reshaping the stories we live by.

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A graduate of Boston College's Presidental Scholar program, Patricia's writing projects have been developed and presented at Goodspeed, Polyphone, 54 Below, The Pitch, and the Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival. They include the 1940s-meets-2020s world of Sweetwater, a musical about the WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots, the first women to fly military planes for the U.S. in WWII), the modern Irish fairy tale Learning How to Drown, and the animated Adventures of Ara set in the world of music itself.

 

As an actor, she has created roles in shows including Maury Yeston’s Death Takes a Holiday and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and appeared in revivals at Lincoln Center and City Center in NYC and theaters across the country. Patricia has performed nationally with symphonies and can be heard on the cast albums for Death Takes a Holiday, Merrily We Roll Along, and The Christmas Schooner. Where theater is currently being streamed, you can catch her in the PBS “Live from Lincoln Center” production of Carousel or watch re-runs of her singing back-up vocals for Josh Groban on Jimmy Fallon. She made her TV debut as Macie-Lynn Pearce on Law & Order: SVU and feature film debut in The Light of the Moon.

 

She has been a Guest Artist at NYU, Emerson College, Boston College, Temple University, University of the Arts, and Sacred Heart University as well as a proud teaching artist with Arts Ignite and in New York and Philadelphia public schools for over a decade.