Patrick Page, acclaimed Tony-nominated actor and teacher, and Kathleen McNenny, actor, teacher, and Juilliard faculty member, will join The Actors Center’s Resident Company in September for a pair of artist development workshops devoted to the work of Shakespeare and Physical Acting using the tool of the Mask.
Patrick Page has been called “One of America’s greatest classical actors” by the Wall Street Journal. His one-man show All the Devils Are Here—How Shakespeare Invented the Villain recently played to six months of sold-out houses Off-Broadway, garnering the Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Solo Performance. The show will play The Guthrie Theatre for two months this Fall, before beginning a national and world tour.
He is an Associate Artist of The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington DC, where his recent performance as King Lear was called “The best in my lifetime” by Washington Post critic Peter Marks, becoming the highest grossing Shakespeare in that theatre’s history. Other roles at STC include Iago (Helen Hayes Award), Coriolanus (Emery Battis Award), Claudius, Prospero, and Macbeth. Patrick is also an Associate Artist of The Old Globe Theatre, where his roles include Cyrano (Craig Noel Award) and Malvolio. For the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theatre he has appeared in Steven Berkoff’s Richard II and the title role in Cymbeline. He has worked at many of the country’s leading regional theatres, where his classical work includes Richard III, Richard II, Henry V, Hamlet, Marc Antony, Brutus, Mercutio, Jacques, Autolycus, Oberon, Don Armado, Benedick, and many others.
Patrick has appeared in 15 Broadway shows including Hadestown (Tony Award nom and Grammy Award winner), Saint Joan, Casa Valentina, The Lion King, Cyrano De Bergerac, Julius Caesar, Beauty and the Beast, A Man for All Seasons, Spider-Man-Turn Off the Dark and The Grinch. TV and film credits include ongoing roles in The Gilded Age (HBO), Etoile (Amazon), Evil (Paramount) and Big Mouth (Netflix), and many guest appearances. The book of All the Devils Are Here—How Shakespeare Invented the Villain will be published by Simon and Schuster in 2026.
As a teacher Patrick curates The Patrick Page Studio in NYC and has guest-taught at colleges and universities nationwide.
Kathleen is a native of Montana. She holds a BFA from University of Montana and a diploma from The Juilliard School of Drama. She studied mask with Pierre Lefebvre and Mina Yakim. She currently teaches physical acting using the tool of the mask at The Juilliard School, The Bill Esper Studios, The Lucid Body House, and The Actors Center, and previously at Rutgers, UCSD, Cap21 as well as other studios. She has taught at Juilliard for over 20 years, helping actors make the transition from school into the business.
Her professional acting credits include Broadway productions of The Minutes, The Father, Fish in the Dark, An Enemy of the People, Death of a Salesman, Coram Boy, The Constant Wife, After the Fall, A Few Good Men. Off-Broadway: Gates of Gold, Mind Game, Three Travelers, Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Winters Tale. Regional Theater: Doll’s House Part 2 (Weston Playhouse), Death of a Salesman (Pittsburgh Public), Outside Mullingar (Philadelphia Theater Co.), The Birds (Barrington Stage), Equus (Guild Hall), Moon for the Misbegotten (McCarter), Richard III (New Jersey Shakespeare Festival), Beyond Therapy and Good German (Westport playhouse, CT Critics Nomination for Best Actress), and Our Town, Sylvia, Sight Unseen, and Human Events (George Street Playhouse).
On television and film, she can be seen in Blindspot, Elementary, Chicago Justice, Person of Interest, The Black Box, The Good Wife, New Amsterdam, Law and Order: CI and SVU, Third Watch, A Happy House, Morning Glory, Music and Lyrics, School of Rock, Life with Mikey, and It could Happen to You. She can currently be seen in the feature Fog, and making the festival circuit in Loser, Silver Sizzle and Roses are Blind.
Her directing credits include I Want A Country at Juilliard, It IS So! (If You Think So) at Rutgers and Dolore’s at the Playroom in NYC. She wrote, produced, and directed a 6 part web series about event designer Preston Bailey called Pillow Talk which was picked up by the Huffington Post. Kathleen is a founding member of the Cape Cod Theater Project.
