Nicholas A. Patricca Papers

Dr. Nicholas A. Patricca began his award-winning writing for theater in 1980. That year, his first play The Examen was produced at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. Since that time, he wrote, published and produced several full-length dramatic works, one-acts and dramatic monologues and poems, including An Uncertain Hour, The Fifth Sun, The Lemon Tree and Gardinia’s ‘n’ Blum. Many of his shorter pieces have been performed as dramatic monologues and have been featured in a variety of literary magazines.

Dr. Patricca was a founding member of the Chicago Alliance for Playwrights, and member of Dramatists Guild, Writers-in-Prison Committee and was coordinator of the Chicago Network for Justice and Peace. He was a founding member and artistic director of Chicago New Plays, a collective service organization dedicated to the development of playwrights working in Chicago theater. He served as Playwright-in-Residence at the Commons Theatre in Chicago (1985) and is an alumnus of the Victory Gardens Playwrights Ensemble and former Artistic Associate at Bailiwick Repertory. His plays and performance poetry have been produced internationally as well as throughout the U.S.

Dr. Patricca is a professor emeritus at Loyola University Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophical Theology from the University of Chicago (1972).