Currently completing his MFA in Directing for the Theatre at the University of British Columbia, Patrick Gauthier is a playwright, director, and actor whose writing credits include Dawn of the Dad (winner of the 2005 Magnetic North Theatre Festival's Magnetic Words playwriting contest), the critically acclaimed The Man Who Went To Work One Day and Got Eaten by a Bear (or, The Corporate Jungle Book), and 8 Words That Ruined My Relationship (which will be presented during Vancouver's Brave New PlayRites festival in April 2007). Recent directing credits include Marguerite Duras' Agatha and Jean Genet's The Maids (both at UBC), as well as A Midsummer Night's Dream (Brown Bag Bards), Blood Wedding (Orleans Young Players), Radio Collar (critical distance Productions), pygM@ILion (Gruppo Rubato), and Edward Albee's Listening (Gruppo Rubato/GCTC). A founding member of Ottawa's Gruppo Rubato, this summer Pat will appear on-stage in their newest touring project, Operation 423: The Churchill Protocol, which he also co-wrote.