The Prisoner of Second Avenue - Off-Broadway Creative Team

His early career was spent performing in Off-Broadway productions, including Class Enemy in 1979, for which he won a Theater World Award for outstanding stage debut. His first major Broadway credit was the ill-fated Stephen Sondheim/Hal Prince/George Furth musical Merrily We Roll Along (1981), which underwent constant changes during an unusually long preview period and closed after only sixteen performances. His next show, the Athol Fugard play "Master Harold"...and the Boys - in which he portrayed a South African student opposite Danny Glover and Zakes Mokae as the family servants - ran for eight months. Possibly his most significant Off-Broadway stage credit ... read more Patrick Ward studied at The San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts High School. Upon graduating he moved to New York City where he trained at The Joffrey Ballet School, and The Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet. He then danced professionally with The Sarasota Ballet. Performing various leading roles by Sir Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, Kenneth Macmillan, Agnes de Mille, Rudolf Nureyev, Paul Taylor and many more. He has performed at New York City Centers Fall for Dance festival, and was part of A Knight of the British Ballet, at The Joyce Theatre. He is delighted to be ... read more