Patricia Milton’s plays have been performed in New York, Boston, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco, and places in between.
Reduction in Force, a Central Works Method play, premiered in Berkeley, CA, July 2011. Critical descriptions included “fascinating characters in new play ‘Reduction in Force’ at Berkeley City Club. Patricia Milton’s play is remarkable . . . diabolical and fun” (Lee Hartgrave, BeyondChron), “Patricia Milton’s very funny, three-character spoof of our ongoing economic crisis . . . [is a] timely, witty farce” (Jean Schiffman, SF Examiner), and, “a hilarious lampoon of corporate culture, . . . with intrigue and a healthy dose of satire” (Elana McKernan, Theatre Bay Area Magazine).
Patricia’s comedy Solving Sunflowers was a winner of the 2009 Eudora Welty New Play Series, and was a Finalist in the 2010 Players Guild Theatre New Play Competition. The Only Virgin in Jubilee County, winner of the 2007 Hill Country Playwriting Festival, premiered at the Hill Country Community Theatre in Texas, and is published by Eldridge Publishers. Her apocalyptic romantic comedy, Believers, was part of 2010 Playwrights Revolution at Capital Stage Theatre in Sacramento, CA, and Wily West Productions’ 2011 staged reading series in San Francisco.
She is co-author with Andrew Black of three full-length comedies. It’s Murder, Mary! premiered at the New Conservatory Theater Center, San Francisco, in May 2008, and critic Lee Hartgrave raved, “Hilarious, high-spirited fun for everyone. . . Irresistible!” Strange Bedfellows was described as “a wondrous ride. With its expert plot and engaging characters, this play is a winner.” (Ute Von der Hayden, CityPulse, Lansing, MI, 2011) Porn Yesterday was produced by Curan Rep in New York City, Thorny Theater in Palm Springs, and in San Diego, Phoenix, and elsewhere. MyDesert.com wrote: “[There is] just the right mix of poignancy and laughter in this saucy tale of one man’s struggle toward redemption.”
Patricia’s short play Busybody was produced in New York and San Francisco and is published by Original Works Publishing, and available at amazon.com. Pat Craig of the Contra Costa Times called it “a disturbing slice of life . . . designed for maximum emotional discomfort.” One of her monologues is published in the International Centre for Women Playwrights anthology, Mother/Daughter Monologues, v. 4, available here.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, her short plays have been seen at the Exploratorium and PianoFight, and in the One Minute Play Festival, SF Theater Festival, Woman’s Will PlayFest, SF Fringe Festival, and Sheherezade.
She is a past President, Playwrights Center of San Francisco, and a member of Theatre Bay Area, Central Works Writing Group, Play Café, International Centre for Women Playwrights, and The Dramatists Guild. She is an Associate Playwright with 3Girls Theatre in San Francisco.