Michael Patrick

Michael Patrick (born Michael Campbell; 6 September 1990 – 7 April 2026) was an Irish actor and writer from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was best known for co-writing the stage play and BBC adaptation My Left Nut and stage play My Right Foot with Oisín Kearney, and for creating and starring in The Tragedy of Richard III at the Lyric Theatre in 2024. In that production, he became the first disabled actor to play Shakespeare's Richard III on the island of Ireland.

In 2024, Patrick and Kearney staged The Tragedy of Richard III at the Lyric Theatre, adapting Shakespeare's play around Patrick's own experience of living with motor neurone disease. Later that year he followed it with My Right Foot, a one-person play about living with the disease.

Personal life and death In February 2023, Patrick announced that he had been diagnosed with motor neuron disease, the same illness that had killed his father when Patrick was young. He died at the Northern Ireland Hospice on 7 April 2026, at the age of 35.

Selected works My Left Nut (2017 stage play; 2020 television adaptation) The Alternative (2019) The Border Game (2021) The Tragedy of Richard III (2024) My Right Foot (2025)