Projects
submit it to festival- a short little movie
Directed, Written, Shot and Produced by Patrick Cannon
Two landscapers daydream a better set of given circumstances.
Starring Sully Martin and Michael Patrick Trimm.
Official Selection in the Academy Award Qualifying Cleveland International Film Festival.
Official Selection in the Academy Award Qualifying Pittsburgh Shorts Film Festival.
The Tragedy of Yorick (A Comedy)
A full length play by Patrick Cannon
MFA Thesis- Available for Development
-2019 Writer’s Digest Script competition- Second Prize
-Screencraft, Quarterfinalist
-Austin Film Festival, Second-Rounder
-Currently ranked in the Top 5 comedy stage plays on Coverfly’s The Red List.
“Patrick Cannon has written a love letter for all performers and lovers of performance in ‘The Tragedy of Yorick (A Comedy).’ He brilliantly pays homage to the comedians and tragedians of history while also spinning a yarn that is all his own. Actors and designers will have a field day with this one, and audiences will be gasping for breath between laughs.”
“How I love this play! Blending the blunt freshness of modern slang with the grace of Shakespeare’s lyricism, Patrick Cannon’s Yorick is a love letter to centuries of comedy from Commedia to clowning, classic silent film, and sitcom. In this extremely funny suicide note, Hamlet’s gravedigger seizes the shocking opportunity to work his dream job as the court jester of Elsinore before shrugging off “this mortal coil.”
