Patrick Mulcahy
Head of Acting; Professor
As an actor, director, and fight director, work includes Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional theatre, television and radio. Acted with industry luminaries at New York Shakespeare Festival, Hartford Stage, The Roundabout Theatre, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Syracuse Stage, and the Walnut Street Theatre. Served as fight director for Tom Hulse and Timothy Busfield on Broadway, and for Off-Broadway productions starring Marcia Gay Harden, John Savage, John Mahoney, and Patrick Dempsey.
At Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival (producing artistic director 2003-2022), he directed Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale, Henry IV, Part 1, The Tempest, Shakespeare in Love, and Macbeth, in addition to numerous productions for DeSales University.
MFA in directing from Syracuse University. Mr. Mulcahy oversees the actor training and teaches all levels of acting and voice/speech.
