Alumni and Friends

Carr says that when he was in the first grade, a guest artist came to his school to stage their holiday play, The Fir Tree. His mother tells him that he came offstage after the first performance and said he wanted to do that for the rest of his life.

Carr is a member of the Actors Equity Association and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. He graduated from Hartwick Summa Cum Laude in Music and Theatre Arts. He was a John Christopher Hartwick Scholar and MFA.

Patterson recently released the forensic investigative documentary special The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima on the Smithsonian Channel. The special premiered July 2016 and garnered attention from The New York Times, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News.

Patterson graduated from Hartwick in 1996 as a theatre major. His first production: “Jesus Christ, Superstar,” was his senior project at Hartwick. As a young alumnus he hosted a number of Hartwick students in New York City as part of the MetroLink program. Patterson became a Hartwick Trustee in 2015 and in 2016 he was reunion co-chair for his class’ 20 year reunion at Hartwick, where he helped the class of ’96 to win the True Blue Reunion Award for most participating alumni.