Photo by Jeff Topham

Photo by Jeff Topham

Patrick Keating, Inside/Out: A Prison Memoir

Originally from Montreal, Patrick Keating is a graduate of Simon Fraser’s School for the Contemporary Arts and has been working as an actor in the Vancouver TV, Film and Theatre scene for the past thirty years.

Some of the companies he has worked with include the Firehall, Neworld Theatre, Rumble Theatre, Mortal Coil, Pi Theatre, Touchstone, Headlines, I.T.P., Urban Crawl, and Main Street Theatre. He has been recognized with two Jessie Richardson Award Nominations.

Patrick served three sentences in Federal Penitentiaries in Quebec and British Columbia. When he transferred to Matsqui in B.C., Patrick took courses that were offered first through the University of Victoria and then through Simon Fraser University. One of those courses was in the art and craft of the Theatre. While at a Halfway House in Vancouver (The Robson Centre), Patrick was accepted and enrolled into the Fine Arts Program at Simon Fraser. He earned a B.A. in Theatre studies, launching a career as a performer that has involved close to 60 TV and film productions and over 40 stage productions.