Patricia Loughrey

Patricia Loughrey’s work engages educational topics and issues of social justice. She wrote the libretto for Sonata 1962, a musical about conversation therapy produced at the New York Music Festival.  Dear Harvey, commissioned by Diversionary Theatre and based on interviews with family and friends of Harvey Milk, has received more than 30 productions nationwide. The script for Dear Harvey was entered into the Harvey Milk collection of the California Museum Hall of Fame. Ms. Loughrey wrote the book for The Daddy Machine, an LGBTQ+ family-friendly musical based on the book by Johnny Valentine. Plays for young audiences include: Nicaragua USA, at the New Conservatory Theatre, and Not Who You See, But Who I Am, a collaboration with the Mark Taper Forum’s Improvisational Theatre Project and the Crittenton Home for Unwed Mothers. HIV education plays include Secrets, produced by Kaiser Permanente’s Educational Theatre Program and The Inner Circle, seen worldwide in over 500 productions. HUNGRY, commissioned by the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solana, tours annually in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ms. Loughrey was playwright-in-residence at the William Inge Center for the Arts, and a Core Apprentice at The Playwrights’ Center, Minneapolis. Select plays available at Samuel French and Playscripts Inc. 

Website: patricialoughrey.com