Patrick James McFadden Jr.; Southland Theater Set Designer

Patrick James McFadden Jr., 59, award-winning set designer in Southern California theater. McFadden earned a Drama Critics Award for best set design for his work on “Picnic” produced at the Met Theater, and his work was rated by a Times reviewer as “superb, handsome and versatile.” McFadden also designed sets for the Met Theater for the productions of “Dark at the Top of the Stairs,” “Curse of the Starving Class” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” He also acted in a few plays and directed several one-act plays at the Met. McFadden directed and performed in “Guests of the Nations” at the Century City Playhouse and directed “All the Same” at the Liberty Bell Theater. McFadden also designed sets for the Los Angeles Actors Theater and for independent films. On July 18 in Los Angeles of emphysema and pneumonia.