Patricia J. Gibson

Patricia Joann Gibson (1952–2022) was an American playwright and teacher.

Biography Patricia Joann Gibson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1952. She started writing at the age of 9.

She earned a BA in drama, religion, and English from Keuka College. She earned a MFA from Brandeis University in 1975, where she received a Schubert Fellowship.

Her play Miss Ann Don't Cry No More (1980) earned a National Endowment of the Arts grant. The play was performed as a reading at the Frank Silvera Writer's Workshop, and eventually fully produced at the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center. Gibson was an Artistic Director of the Rites and Reason Theatre at Brown University.

She was part of the Woodie King Jr.'s New Federal Theatre playwriting faculty.

Death Gibson died on May 6, 2022.

Unproduced works Strippa Swing/Slide Majorna and the Man Thief A Man Masculine and Glass Fist Marie In Search of Me (also titled Trial)

Recognition AUDELCO awards, Audience Development Committee Shubert Fellowship National Endowment of the Arts playwriting grant PSC-CUNY research award grant Artist in Residence at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor