Patrick Julian was born and raised in rural Concord, Michigan, the son of a factory worker father and librarian mother. He has received a Bachelor's in Performance from Northern Michigan University, a Masters and Ph.D in Theater History from Bowling Green, and he taught briefly at a university near the Texas panhandle. As a writer, Patrick has published in both academic and pop media, his screenplays have won contest and festival awards, and he currently has two feature screenplays in pre-production. Patrick also writes for the stage; his children's play "Shadow gets a Black Eye" was an American College Theater Festival award winner, and a one-woman show that he co-wrote, "Inconclusive Woman", appeared off-Broadway in the Summer of 2009. In addition to the script for "Inconclusive Woman", Patrick wrote the lyrics for two songs in the show, and as a song lyricist, he currently has a song on the 2009 release from electronica artist Bad Boy Bill.