Jerry Patch Jumps from Old Globe to Manhattan Theatre Club

Manhattan Theatre Club has announced that Jerry Patch will join its artistic team as the company's new Director of Artistic Development. Patch is currently Co-Artistic Director of San Diego's The Old Globe, where he brought to the theater works by Amy Freed, Howard Korder, Richard Greenberg and Donald Margulies.

Prior to joining The Old Globe in 2005, Patch was a member of the artistic team of South Coast Repertory, where he coordinated the development of 150 new plays, including Donald Margulies' Sight Unseen and Brooklyn Boy, which made its Broadway debut at MTC's Biltmore Theatre, Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit, Howard Korder's Search and Destroy, Amy Freed's The Beard of Avon and Freedomland, and Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel and world-premieres of several plays by Richard Greenberg, including Three Days of Rain, Hurrah at Last!, The Violet Hour and Everett Beekin.

During his tenure at SCR, Patch also held the position of Artistic Director 1990-1997 of The Sundance Theatre Program, which included the Sundance Playwrights Laboratory, one of the nation's leading new play development programs.

MTC Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove said in a statement, "We have known and admired Jerry Patch for many years and have always had the highest regard for his talent and his role in working with writers.... We, along with Acting Artistic Director Daniel Sullivan and Associate Artistic Director Mandy Greenfield, are thrilled that Jerry is making the move east to join MTC in its roles on and off Broadway."