Photo Claire Newman-Williams
"the solid silver timbre of Patrick Jeremy"
- L'Ape Musicale (Rome)
Australian artist Patrick Jeremy lives in London and made his European debut at the Rome Opera, as Rick in the Châtelet production of I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky by John Adams.
For the past few years, Patrick has covered and performed the role of the Engineer in Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Miss Saigon around the world. From 2020-2022 Patrick was engaged for the Vienna production with a new German libretto, reopening VBW’s historic Raimund Theater. He was then cast in the 2023 Australian production, opening at the Sydney Opera House with Opera Australia before touring to Melbourne and Adelaide. In 2024 Patrick embarked on the GWB Asia Tour of Miss Saigon with a third cast, performing in Manila, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Taichung, Taipei and Singapore.
In London, Patrick Jeremy performed in West End Bares, and enjoyed singing and tapping his way around the country in the UK Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie, playing Bun Foo and dancing in the ensemble. He was then invited to reprise his role in this musical in Canada.
Patrick Jeremy received a Best Actor nomination for his portrayal of Georges Seurat in Sunday in the Park with George at the State Opera of South Australia. He followed this with Giorgio in Sondheim's Passion, both shows winning Best Musical in the Adelaide Theatre Awards. Other favourite roles include Puck in a national tour of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tulsa in Gypsy, Le Mari in Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tirésias and the title role in Bernstein’s Candide. Patrick toured Australia in the Broadway production of The King & I, for John Frost & Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House, covering and playing Lun Tha.
Dubbed “the tenor in tap-shoes”, Patrick Jeremy made his New York cabaret debut at one of New York’s best-known cabaret venues, Don’t Tell Mama, and his London cabaret debut at the Covent Garden Theatre Museum, whilst undertaking a directing fellowship at the English National Opera. He was the winner of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival Scholarship, the Young Achiever of the Year and the Churchill Fellowship.
Patrick Jeremy has been performing in musicals since childhood, as the Mayor of the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz with the Gordon Frost Organisation, and shows with State Theatre Company, State Opera and The Australian Ballet. Musical theatre credits at the Adelaide Festival Centre include Bill Calhoun in Kiss Me Kate, Scranton Slim in Guys & Dolls and the Adelaide premieres of Into the Woods and The Secret Garden. He also performed in the popular Opera Australia productions of operettas Die Fledermaus, The Mikado and Orpheus in the Underworld and the Australian Premiere of Jake Heggie's Moby-Dick.
“totally charming and entertaining… Patrick is a triple threat”
– Cabaret Hotline, New York.
Some photographs from the THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE UK TOUR