Patrice Johnson Chevannes most recently starred in the world-premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ HALFWAY BITCHES GO STRAIGHT TO HEAVEN for the Atlantic Theater Company, and in runboyrun / IN OLD AGE at New York Theatre Workshop, which garnered her nominations for both a Drama Desk Award and a Drama League Award. Her Broadway credits include THE CRUCIBLE (opposite Liam Neeson and Laura Linney), & RACING DEMON. Other stage credits include MIES JULIE (Classic Stage Company), GOOD GRIEF (Vineyard Theatre), HENRY V (The Public Theater's Mobile Shakespeare Unit), THE HOMECOMING QUEEN (Atlantic Theater Company), PERICLES (Theatre for a New Audience), FAMILIAR (Yale Repertory Theatre), TAMBURLAINE, PARTS I and II (Theatre for a New Audience), LOVE’S LABOR’S LOST (The Old Globe), ANGELIQUE (MCC Theater), OTHELLO (Shakespeare Theatre Company), & All’s Well That Ends Well (New York Shakespeare Festival/Delacorte Theatre). On television she can be seen starring in CHAMBERS on Netflix, as well as memorable roles on POSE and SHRILL. TRAINING: The City College of New York (BA).
Patrice sits down with me, via Zoom, to chat about her extraordinary childhood, when theatre began to speak to her, majoring in engineering at Cornell University before securing her family’s blessing to pursue theatre, how Kristin Linklater’s voice work changed her life, the importance of not lying in the audition room, her work as an educator, how her relationship with Mfoniso Udofia came to be, her unbelievable audition for HALFWAY BITCHES GO STRAIGHT TO HEAVEN, finding and locating her two most recent roles as Wanda Wheels and Abasiama Ufot, & falling in love with Sir Patrick Stewart.