Patricia Noonan is a NYC-based actor, singer, lyricist, and playwright. Noonan wrote book and lyrics for the musical Learning How to Drown (with composer Amanda Jacobs), developed at The Johnny Mercer Writers’ Colony (Goodspeed), the Pitch (Finger Lakes Musical Theater Festival), and given a workshop production at Boston College. She is one of the writers/co-founders of The #makeitfair Project, which launched in 2015 to advocate for gender parity in the entertainment industry and beyond. Current projects include editing A Mile in Our Shoes (a collection of memoirs from women around the world), book & lyrics for the new musical Boundless, and book & lyrics for Sweetwater (with composer Sean Mahoney) which began at Goodspeed’s Mercer Writers’ Colony, was one of three shows chosen for Goodspeed’s Festival of New Musicals in 2018, and was recently presented at NAMT‘s 2018 Songwriter Showcase. She graduated as a Presidential Scholar from Boston College.
