Los Angeles, California, United States
Experienced booker, casting person, and producer with over a decade of experience working in the entertainment industry.
Screenwriter Brian Lynch and Producer Patrick Cotnoir do audio commentaries on movies and TV shows with the people who made them who never got to do commentaries on them.
The George Lucas Talk Show is a long-running cult talk show in New York City that Patrick has booked since 2015. Comedian Connor Ratliff (Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Dead Eyes podcast) hosts the show as George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, and he interviews real guests as themselves in a panel format. He is flanked by sidekick Watto, played by Griffin Newman (Amazon’s The Tick, Blank Check podcast). The show ran for over 6 years at the UCB Theater in New York and has had guests like Weird Al, Seth Meyers, Whoopi Goldberg, Jon Hamm, Janeane Garofalo, Nicole Byer, Sonia Manzano, Ira Glass, Chris Gethard, Lea Thompson, Ben Schwartz, Peter Serafinowicz, Bobby Moynihan, David K. Harbour, Emily VanDerWerff, Mara Wilson, Solo writer Jon Kasdan, Rogue One writer Chris Weitz, Meredith Vieira, and musicians like Aimee Mann. Since May 2020, the show has been streaming weekly on PlanetScum.Live, with Patrick acting as an on-air co-host. Patrick has produced fundraisers including: a 30-hour marathon of every Star Wars movie, marathoned TV shows like Arli$ 1600 Penn, Muppets Tonight at Studio 60 (with cast and crew from the shows) and raised over $275k for various charities.
Booking all shows on the Exactly Right podcast network. Created by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, hosts of the hit podcast “My Favorite Murder,” the Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics and voices, serving the highly engaged listenership of “My Favorite Murder” and beyond.
Produces and helps cast live shows at Dynasty Typewriter Back in the 80s, when Michael Ausiello was a closeted gay teen living in small-town New Jersey, he penned 517 episodes of a daytime soap opera, titled Beverly Hills. Miraculously, he saved every handwritten script. Now, four decades later, some of the biggest names in comedy will come together to perform a 60-minute reading of a self-contained story arc that found six of Beverly Hills’ most popular characters travelling overseas for a life-or-death adventure. Although some of Teenage Michael’s atrocious spelling has been cleaned up for this theatrical experience, the scenes will be performed exactly as they were written nearly 40 years ago. For better or worse.
• Cast and produced live readings for 7 iconic Star Wars films, showcasing a diverse array of talented actors. • Narrated performances that received acclaim, including being named "the best Star Wars thing in years" by CBR. • Achieved 7+ sold-out shows in Los Angeles, generating hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube and enhancing audience engagement. • Cast insane people for the readings including Tatiana Maslany, D'Arcy Carden, Danny Pudi, Clancy Brown, Jared Harris, Melissa Fumero, Richard Kind, Tony Hale, Kel Mitchell, Adam Pally, Debra Wilson, Fred Melamed, Haley Joel Osment, Bobby Moynihan, Mary Elizabeth Ellis and tons more.
Booked guests for weekly podcast hosted by comedians Jessica Chaffin and Bryan Safi