Michael Patrick (actor)

Patrick was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1991. ==Career==

Patrick worked frequently with writer and director Oisín Kearney. Their first professional collaboration, My Left Nut, premiered at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2017. Patrick wrote and performed the one-man play, which was based on his teenage years and later won a Summerhall Lustrum Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 2024, Patrick and Kearney staged The Tragedy of Richard III at the Lyric Theatre, adapting Shakespeare's play around Patrick's own experience of living with motor neurone disease. Later that year he followed it with My Right Foot, a one-person play about living with the disease. ==Personal life and death==

In February 2023, Patrick announced that he had been diagnosed with motor neurone disease, the same illness that had killed his father when Patrick was young. He died at the Northern Ireland Hospice on 7 April 2026, at the age of 35. ==Selected works==

• My Left Nut (2017 stage play; 2020 television adaptation) • The Alternative (2019) • The Border Game (2021) • The Tragedy of Richard III (2024) • My Right Foot (2025) ==References==