PATRICK A’HEARN Is the CEO and Producing Artistic Director at the Riverside Center for the Performing Arts. He enters his 15th year at Riverside Center, leading the company’s transition into a professional regional theater and its status as a 501-C3 Nonprofit organization. Patrick has directed over 30 plus shows at Riverside and received many accolades and awards for his direction. Most notably groundbreaking productions of Les Miserable, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Ragtime and most recently The Wizard of Oz. Mr. A’Hearn was a member of the original Broadway cast of Les Misérables and can be heard in its original cast recording. He has appeared on Broadway and in the national tours of Les Misérables, Chicago (with Chita Rivera and Ben Vereen), The Phantom of the Opera, The King and I (starring Rudolph Nureyev), The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (with Michael Crawford), and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (with Andy Gibb), as well as in the acclaimed Forbidden Broadway in New York. He was featured in the world premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem Variations, performed as Marvin Hamlisch’s principal vocalist in Mr. Hamlisch’s Concert Tour, and appeared as Freddy in My Fair Lady in the European tour starring Maximillian Schell. Patrick has performed principal roles at many regional theaters across the United States, most notably the title role in The Student Prince with Jerome Hines and Christine Andreas. A featured soloist in Broadway Pops programs with major symphonic orchestras throughout the U.S., Patrick has released two nationally distributed CDs: Patterns of the Heart and By George! —The Music of George Gershwin. He assisted Trevor Nunn and John Caird in the staging of the first national tour of Les Misérables.