Patrick Bates BioHe saw his first short story published in a campus literary magazine at Central Michigan University and then went on to write and perform in LAUGH OFF, a regional sketch comedy show produced on mid-Michigan PBS. Recently he had a play selected for the ‘Things Didn’t Turn Out As I Planned’ play festival sponsored by Abstraction Theatre in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Bates also writes part time for JD Drama Publishing Houston, Texas, as well as for Ekota, a magazine of literary and expository writing for and by speech instructors and their students. In 2006 his feature script SANTA CLAUS GOES TO PIRATE ISLAND was named as one of the top 20 best scripts in the Script P.I.M.P. screenplay search, in addition to being a finalist in the 2006 Beverly Hills Film Fest, The Phoenix Film Festival, and The Script Dig Festival. He has also been a two time finalist at the Great Lakes Independent Film Festival Screenplay Competition for SANTA as well as ED’S DEAD (and he’s hitchhiking home), which was also a top ten finisher in the Big Apple Film Fest of 2006. Other feature script successes include a top ten finalist for the horror script ICHABOD in the Scr(i)pt Magazine Thrills and Chills Screenplay contest of 2006, and a recent top twenty-five screenplay finalist for the horror FRESH MEAT in the Buffalo/Niagara Film Festival.
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