Biography
Steve Patrick turned a childhood and adolescence spent avoiding fresh air exercise through an intense regimen of media and convenience food consumption into a lucrative career in the television industry.
Armed with a BA in Film Studies from Bowling Green State University, Steve moved to Atlanta later that year to seek his fortune after considering New York and Los Angeles "too hard" for his ability to handle rejection at that stage of life.
His foot in the profession television door required wearing a polyester blazer while giving tours of CNN Global Headquarters to countless German tourists, each sporting translating headphones, and all of whom felt the need loudly ask questions about the facility in their native tongue over the din of cassette tape narration only they could hear. Steve's high school-level grasp on conversational German resulted in many of these guests learning how CNN anchors often spent their time turning left and/or right, ordering Bavarian food, or asking for directions to various libraries and discotheques.
Through Turner Broadcasting's vast underground network of official, clearly posted job listings, Steve made the leap to Cartoon Network in 1997. Here he thrived with a desk cluttered with action figures for the next thirteen years, ultimately rising to the lofty heights of Creative Director. Highlights of his time at the network include writing and producing the Annie Award-winning Blair Witch Project parody "The Scooby-Doo Project", creating and show-running of the 2003-2006 live-action/puppet/animated variety block "Cartoon Network's Fridays", as well as producing award-winning specials, animated shorts, and music videos, including two featuring his favorite pop combo, They Might Be Giants (John is favorite).
Throughout Steve's Cartoon Network tenure he concurrently served as a writer/consultant on the hit Adult Swim series "Harvey Birdman, Attorney-at-Law", creating the character Gigi as the result of a particularly bad breakup. Though Steve is happily married today, he still thinks about that girl that got away every now and then. It's been fifteen years now, but he still remembers details of that relationship like it was yesterday. Life's funny sometimes.
In 2010, appropriately calloused by the white-knuckle intensity of basic cable programming, Steve moved to Los Angeles to executive produce HBO's animated "The Ricky Gervais Show", based on Stephen Merchant's popular podcast. Two seasons of gratifying ship-steering later, and with only the dregs of preexisting podcast material left to put funny pictures to, "The Ricky Gervais Show" ended its run in 2012, freeing up Steve's schedule to sit on the couch for a minute and think.
A mere three months later Steve proudly announced formation of his own a creative services consulting firm, Modern Retro Amalgamated, over a dinner of he wants to say pork chops, some kind of rice pilaf-but-not thing, asparagus, and a warm can of Pibb Zero if memory serves. Throughout the next year MRA's roster of clients grew to include Warner Brothers Television Animation, Hasbro and The Discovery Network's Hub Network, as well as his alma mater Cartoon Network. Modern Retro also shopped original projects to all major studios over the next year in meetings across the Greater Los Angeles area. Countless meetings. Oh so many meetings.
Dissatisfied with meeting about television and eager return to his love of producing television, Steve joined the Hub Network's Creative Services department as Creative Director in the spring of 2013. He has since overseen the launch of Hub Original Series "Spooksville", produced a multi-platform campaign for the network's "First Annual Halloween Bash" with host Kenan Thompson, and developed the extremely polarizing programming block "Hub Overnight", best described as a bane to the existence of all remaining of "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" fans. Both of them. And their mom. Oooo, burn.
Steve Patrick resides with is wife, Nikki, in Santa Monica, CA. He can hear the ocean from the comfort of his couch without going outside to risk inhaling fresh air. He enjoys staying up late, oversleeping, and now curates an entire office cluttered with action figures called "The Stevesonian."
