Patrick Michael Dukeman (Author) Patrick Michael Dukeman has been working in the theatre for almost 40 years. He has a BA degree in English and another BA in theatre from Kent State University, as well as an MFA in Theatre from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He worked professionally in San Francisco for 25 years. He has sung professionally in Europe, worked on a cruise ship, and has musical directed, directed, acted, sung, and danced – he has trod the boards wearing many hats. He has conceived, written the book, the lyrics, and the music for an original children's musical called Across the Pond, written a Gilbert and Sullivan revue that premiered at Parkway Playhouse in Asheville, North Carolina, and is thrilled that his romp Shakespeare’s Ladies’ Book Club will see its premiere at Weathervane Playhouse, the theatre that he now calls home.