PATRICK GABRIDGE (playwright) is the founder and producing artistic director of Plays in Place, and with Plays in Place has created new site-specific plays for many museums and historic sites, including Historic Northampton, Historic Deerfield, Mount Auburn Cemetery, the National Park Service, and Boston’s Old North Church. He has written more than two dozen historical plays, along with many contemporary plays that have received productions around the world (17 countries and all 50 states). He’s also a novelist, screenwriter, and writer of audio plays. Patrick lives in Florence, MA, and when he isn't making plays, he's busy planting vegetables or renovating his barn into a rehearsal space.