{{Short description|Actor}} {{distinguish|Patrick Miles (disambiguation){{!}}Patrick Miles}} {{Multiple issues| {{Like resume|date=April 2024}} {{BLP sources|date=September 2024}} }} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2014}} {{Use Irish English|date=April 2014}}
'''Patrick Myles''' is an Irish/Cypriot actor, filmmaker and producer.
==Early life==
Myles was born in Nicosia, Cyprus, and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and with Philippe Gaulier.
==Stage work as an actor==
He has appeared in Shakespeare plays, including ''Henry VI, Part 1'', ''Henry VI, Part 2'' and ''Henry VI, Part 3'' for Shakespeare's Globe; ''Much Ado About Nothing'' for Shakespeare in the Squares; ''Romeo and Juliet'' for Creation Theatre; and ''Romeo and Juliet'' and ''Othello'' for Midas Touch Productions.
He has appeared in two Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies, ''The Spanish Tragedy'' at the Arcola Theatre and ''The Revenger's Tragedy'' at the Southwark Playhouse. He appeared in the seventeenth-century comedy ''Tartuffe'' at the Arcola Theatre.
In twentieth-century drama, Myles has appeared in Eugene O'Neill's ''The Hairy Ape'' at Southwark Playhouse; ''Towards Zero'' and ''The Unexpected Guest'' by Agatha Christie at The Mill at Sonning; Alan Ayckbourn's ''A Chorus of Disapproval''; ''The Freedom of the City'' and ''The Lady's Not for Burning'' at the Finborough Theatre; and Harold Pinter's ''Victoria Station'' at The King's Head Theatre.
==Film and television==
His film and TV credits include BBC/HBO's ''Industry'', ''The Bill'' and ''Secret Smile''.
==Writing and directing==
He wrote and directed the BAFTA-longlisted short film ''The Overcoat'', with Jason Watkins, Vicki Pepperdine, Tim Key, Alex Macqueen and adapted from Nikolai Gogol's short story, ''A Pornographer Woos'', with Michael Smiley and adapted from Bernard MacLaverty's short story, ''Henry VI, Part 1'' as part of Shakespeare's Globe's Complete Walk, ''Telling Laura'', with Colin Hoult and Louise Ford, ''Anthropopopometry'', with Peter McDonald and Lloyd Hutchinson, ''Santa's Blotto'', with Brian Blessed, which premiered at the BFI London Film Festival. Other writing work includes ''Will: The Lost Years'', which won the Channel Four/Stellar Network Pitch Up Competition in 2009.
In 2024, he adapted and directed Nikolai Gogol's ''The Government Inspector'' at the Marylebone Theatre.<ref name="a033">{{cite web | website=The Reviews Hub |first=Chris|last=Lilly| title=The Government Inspector – Marylebone Theatre,London| date=5 May 2024| url=https://www.thereviewshub.com/the-government-inspector-marylebone-theatrelondon/ | access-date=2024-09-10}}</ref><ref name="o356">{{cite news | last=Jeffery | first=Heather | title=THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR at Marylebone Theatre until 15 Jun | work=London Pub Theatres Magazine | date=9 May 2024 | url=https://www.londonpubtheatres.com/review-the-government-inspector-by-nickolai-gogol-at-marylebone-theatre-3-may-15-june-2024 | access-date=10 September 2024}}</ref>
==Producing==
Producing work includes the stage adaptation of Paddy Chayefsky's ''Network'', in a co-production with the Royal National Theatre, which transferred to the Belasco Theatre on Broadway; the New York transfer of ''Fleabag'' at the SoHo Playhouse; David Mamet's ''American Buffalo'' at Circle in the Square Theatre; Martin McDonagh's ''Hangmen'' at the Golden Theater; ''Pictures from Home'' at Studio 54; ''Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill'' at Wyndham's Theatre, David Mamet's ''Glengarry Glen Ross'' at the Apollo Theatre;<ref name="i121">{{cite news| work=Theatre Record |title=Glengarry Glen Ross | volume=27|issue=14–26 | year=2007 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TZorAQAAIAAJ | access-date=10 September 2024 }}</ref> the national tour of Phil Porter's adaptation of ''The Lavender Hill Mob''; and ''Family Affair'' by Alexander Ostrovsky at the Arcola Theatre.
Myles was artistic director of Doublethink Theatre.
==See also== *Doublethink Theatre
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name}} * [https://justcelebritymag.com/2018/09/23/interview-patrick-myles-the-overcoat-interview-nikolai-gogol-adaption Interview], ''Just Celebrity Mag'', 2018 * [https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/theatre-arts/patrick-myles-i-was-always-the-first-on-my-feet-shouting-at-snow-white/29521470.html Interview], ''Belfast Telegraph'', 2013 * [https://archive.cyprus-mail.com/2005/07/10/a-small-family-business Interview], ''CyprusMail'', 2005
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