Allen Fitzpatrick

Allen Fitzpatrick has been seen several times as an actor on the Key City stage; he also directed Annapurna and Sea Marks for KCPT. He spent decades as a NY actor; his 45 years on Broadway and in the professional theatre included working alongside such notables as Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Harold Prince, Marvin Hamlisch, John Guare, and Stephen Sondheim.

Allen debuted on Broadway in Les Miserables (1991); among his nine other Broadway credits are Driving Miss Daisy with James Earl Jones, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Damn Yankees with Jerry Lewis, and 42nd Street. He was the stand-by for John Lithgow in Sweet Smell Of Success directed by Sir Nicholas Hytner. Allen shared an Emmy Award for his contribution to Passion Live From Lincoln Center, in which he appeared opposite Patti Lupone and Audra McDonald. He starred opposite Petula Clark in Sunset Boulevard, with Keith Michell in Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Aspects of Love, and with Marlo Thomas in Six Degrees of Separation. He also was featured in several national tours and played a leading role in the world premiere of Whistle Down The Wind directed by Hal Prince.

Allen has played over 250 roles in regional theatres, off-Broadway, and other venues. On television, he appeared several times on Law & Order, Law & Order-SVU, and 1980s soap operas. His Seattle stage appearances include 26 shows at the 5th Avenue Theatre, where he starred as Sweeney in Sweeney Todd and as “Frollo” in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He often appeared at ACT Theatre, the Intiman, Seattle Shakespeare Co., Village Theatre, Tacoma Actors Guild, and Seattle Rep. This adaptation of Dickens’s famous story is the first play he has written for the production.

Allen was inspired by seeing, on Broadway, the version that Patrick Stewart had written for himself (which won the 1992 Drama Desk for Outstanding Solo Performance).