Patrick Meyers was born in Phoenix, Arizona and grew up in Denver, Colorado. He attended Colorado State University at Fort Collins, where he began acting. He subsequently moved to Los Angeles and joined the Company Theatre. In 1972, he moved to Berkeley, California where he earned a degree in television production from Merritt College, and completed his first play -- a children's drama for television entitled The Frown. The next year, Meyers was accepted into the Advanced Training Program for drama at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theatre. It was there he completed the initial draft of his second play, Feedlot. After its 1977 debut with the Berkeley Stage Company, Feedlot received its New York opening with the Circle Repertory Company later that year. The play centers on the violent confrontation between two contemporary cowboys: a macho vietnam veteran and sensitive young gay student. Feedlot created an immediate sensation, and the 30 year old playwright was highly praised by the New York drama critics. Laney College in Oakland, California introduced Meyers' next play, An Actor Repairs, that same year. In 1978 the Circle Repertory premiered Glorious Morning about the conflict between a female biologist dying of cancer in her catskill Mountain cabin, her philosophy professor husband and their motorcycle gang member son. Meyers' fifth play, K2, premiered in 1982 at the Theatre by the Sea in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, followed closely by productions at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. and Syracuse Stage in Syracuse, New York. K2 opened in 1983 on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre to rave reviews. Actor Jeffrey DeMunn (Taylor) and lighting designer Allen Lee Hughes received Tony nominations, and Ming Cho Lee won the Tony and the Outer critics Circle Award for Best Set Design. Meyers followed K2 with two stylistically adventurous plays: Just Like the Lions (1984) and Dysan (1985), which was presented by the Circle Rep in 1985. Oysan included scenes set in 13th century Japan, 1940s Texas, in prehistoric times and in the future.
