BIO

Patrick Cassidy has been conquering stages all of his life, winning acclaim as an actor, singer, producer and artistic director.

The son of Oscar winner Shirley Jones and Tony winner Jack Cassidy, Patrick blazed his own trail on television, battling Zendaya on “K.C. Undercover,” squaring off against Alec Baldwin in the miniseries “Dress Gray,” filling Patrick Swayze’s dancing shoes as Johnny Castle in the CBS series “Dirty Dancing” and romancing Jacqueline Bisset in the miniseries “Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story.” He’s starred in Steven Bochco’s baseball series “Bay City Blues,” had recurring roles on “Smallville” and “Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman” and guested on such hit series as “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “ER,” “Castle,” “Perception,” “Major Crimes,” “The Nanny,” “Charmed,” “CSI,” “CSI: Miami,” “The Neighbors,” “Crossing Jordan” and “Murphy Brown.” The ABC Family musical comedy series “Ruby & The Rockits” was a true family affair, with Patrick and his brother David in the lead roles and brother Shaun creating/producing.

Patrick burst onto the New York theater scene in 1982 as Frederic in “The Pirates of Penzance” opposite Kevin Kline. He played Jeff Barry in the Tony-nominated “Leader of the Pack” and originated the role of the Balladeer in Stephen Sondheim’s “Assassins” onstage at Playwrights Horizons in New York, on the original RCA Records cast recording and during a star-studded gala at Carnegie Hall. He starred as Bobby in Sondheim’s “Company” with Carol Burnett for Long Beach City Light Opera, played the title role in two yearlong national tours of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” starred as Radames in the first national tour of Elton John and Tim Rice’s “Aida” and had the honor of recreating two of his father’s Tony-nominated roles: Max Mencken in “It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman” and Stephen Kodaly in “She Loves Me.” When he and his mom joined the revival cast of “42nd Street,” with Patrick as tyrannical director Julian Marsh, they became the first mother and son to ever star together in a Broadway show.

On the big screen, his most cherished project is Norman René’s “Longtime Companion,” the groundbreaking drama that was the first to depict the emotional toll of the AIDS crisis.

Behind the scenes, Patrick directed “The Music Man” at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., was resident director of the mammoth musical revue “Showstoppers” at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas and served as artistic director of 5-Star Theatricals in Thousand Oaks, Calif., where he staged hit musicals featuring Broadway icons like Adam Pascal and Susan Egan.

Since 2020, Patrick has been artistic director of Studio Tenn, an award-winning theater company in Franklin, Tenn. As host of the virtual talk show “Studio Tenn Talks,” he’s interviewed everyone from Kristin Chenoweth and Jason Alexander to Patti LuPone and Chita Rivera.

Patrick lives in Franklin, Tennessee with his wife of 27 years, choreographer/dance teacher Melissa Hurley Cassidy.

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