Patricia Forte

Drama/Writing

Patricia Forte has performed on stage, screen and television. On stage, she has performed for such plays as Macbeth, View from the Bridge, Ted Lange’s award-winning comedy, Four Queen - No Trump, and Sam Art-Williams’ notable Home, for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Best Ensemble Award. On the big screen, she appeared in Paul T. Walker’s Magnolia and Boogie Nights, John Singleton’s Higher Learning, and Charles Burnett’s The Glass Shield. On television, Patricia has guest-starred on such dramas as The Shield, CSI-Miami, ER, Cold Case, 7 th Heaven and Any Day Now. She has guest starred on such comedies as Love Inc., Phil of the Future, The Tom Joyner Show, The Steve Harvey Show, Martin, Mad TV and In Living Color. She was a series regular in the Disney Channel’s State of Grace.

Patricia has been a member of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists for nearly twenty years. She has done commercials, public services announcements, and voice-over work. She recorded bedtime stories for inner city children with First Lady Barbara Bush. She also did voice work with Ted Lange on his Walter Mosley’s Black Betty production for the KCRW Performance Library Collection.

She is a gradate of the Twentieth Century Fox Studios’ Open Doors Writers Workshop, Children’s Institute of Literature, Warner Brothers Studios’ screenwriting course with Leo Lawrence, and UCLA’s Extension’s Screenwriting class. She is a past member of the Organization of Black Screenwriters.

Patricia wrote news copy for Carl Nelson at FM radio station KJLH in Los Angeles, and later at FM radio station KNAC in Long Beach, CA where she wrote The Caribbean News

In 1984, Patricia began acting classes at Marla Gibb’s Crossroads Arts Academy. Her first instructor was Edmund Cambridge. She performed in several of his productions there. She and Ed became close friends. In 1992, when Ed and his partner, Lincoln Kilpatrick, reopened their Kilpatrick-Cambridge Theatre Arts School in Hollywood, she signed up for acting classes. In 1996, she was asked to join the staff as the drama teacher for their Children and Teen Acting Workshop.

For two years, Patricia taught drama to at-risk teens in the Penny Lane Middle School in North Hills, California. This project was funded by a grant from Dreamyard/ Los Angeles, an organization with which she continues to enjoy a close relationship.

Currently, she is teaching drama at Kittsville Dance and Cultural Arts Program in Los Angeles. This program was founded and is supported by the legendary dancer, singer, and actress, Eartha Kitt.

Patria has been included in the Cambridge Who’s Who Register of Executives and Professionals 2007-2008 Edition.