Hey, I'm Patrick Blanner :)

An actor and director born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri; now based in New York City!

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As a wide-eyed kid stuck in the midwest, I loved watching movies and attending any live performance I could see. My all time favorite viewing was the 1939 classic, The Wizard of Oz. The story of a girl who escapes her midwestern drudgery, and exchanges it for technicolor dreams. WOW, so relatable! I escaped my own midwestern drudgery by taking my first steps onstage in the first grade Christmas pageant.

I never looked back! 

 

I went on to receive my BFA in Musical Theatre from LIU Post, where I worked with faculty who focused and refined my storytelling skills. There I was trained in Suzuki, Meisner, Stanislavski, Chekov, Viewpoints and Laban. The hybrid physical text analysis training I received from Maria Porter, however, was the most influential to my storytelling practice. It informs all of my work and ensures a uniquely personalized and specific performance of any given material. ​

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