Patrick Myles
Patrick is an actor, BAFTA-longlisted writer/director and Olivier/Tony-nominated producer who trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. As an actor, theatre credits include plays at Shakespeare’s Globe, Stephen Joseph Theatre (with Alan Ayckbourn), Punchdrunk, the Mill at Sonning, Arcola, Creation Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, Finborough Theatre, Bush Theatre and Orange Tree Theatre. Film/tv credits include Industry (HBO), Eastenders and Doctors (BBC), Secret Smile and Planespotting (ITV), Red Thursday (Eurimages) and Smaragda (Bark like a Cat).
He has been an associate director on Agatha Christie’s Towards Zero and The Unexpected Guest at the Mill at Sonning, and directed staged readings of works by writers including Nathan Bryon and Benjamin Askew at the Soho Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith and Croydon Warehouse. In 2025, he adapted and directed Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector at the Marylebone Theatre, starring Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Dan Skinner and Martha Howe-Douglas, and with the playtext published by Concord Theatricals.
He is also an award-winning filmmaker, with his short films premiering at London Film Festival (the comedy Santa’s Blotto, starring Brian Blessed, which hit the no.1 global spot for short films on iTunes, helped by Stephen Fry’s tweet calling it ‘hilarious’) and his short film adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s The Overcoat, starring Jason Watkins and Tim Key, was longlisted for the Best British Short BAFTA and won numerous awards at UK and international film festivals, securing a worldwide distribution deal with Shorts International.
As a creative producer he has worked in the West End and on Broadway with talent that includes Ivo van Hove, Lee Hall, Bryan Cranston, Audra McDonald, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Miles Jupp, Laurence Fishbourne, Sam Rockwell, Aidan Gillen, Nathan Lane and Jonathan Pryce. Recently, alongside David Luff, he was the lead creative producer of the first ever stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove, adapted by Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning writer Armando Iannucci, directed by Olivier-winning Sean Foley and starring multiple BAFTA-winning actor Steve Coogan.
He is a member of Directors UK, the Society of London Theatre and BAFTA Connect, and an alumnus of BFI London Film Festival’s Think/Shoot/Distribute talent campus, Directors UK Inspire scheme and the Directing Studio at Shakespeare’s Globe.
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