Dan Patterson

Dan Patterson (born March 1960)[1] is a British television producer and writer, responsible for the production of both the British and American incarnations of the improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway? and the British satirical panel show Mock the Week with writing partner Mark Leveson. He has also written for episodes of both shows.

Dan Patterson
OccupationTelevision producer and writer

He co-created Whose Line Is It Anyway? alongside Mark Leveson, initially on BBC radio before moving with it to Channel 4, and then onward to ABC. In 2004, he established Angst Productions, which is responsible for Mock the Week.[2]

In October 2013, the play The Duck House, a farcical political satire which he wrote alongside Have I Got News for You writer Colin Swash,[3] embarked on a five-week tour[4] before transferring to the Vaudeville Theatre in London's West End through Spring 2014.[5]

Television

Producer

Stage
Writer
gollark: Or use some kind of evolutionary algorithm™ for constraint solving.
gollark: Why not just try all possible combinations of things until the code typechecks?
gollark: ++choose `Sized(Sized(a))` `Macronoid(b)`
gollark: It picks randomly.
gollark: Can't believe Macron still hasn't been made yet.

References
  1. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/DFTFqQBcygwx7ZoH6rJRaRVLud8/appointments
  2. Mock The Week - The Company
  3. "Culture Stage West End The Duck House: MPs' expenses satire set for West End splash". theguardian.com. The Guardian. 17 September 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
  4. "The Duck House: MPs' expenses satire set for West End splash". theguardian.com. The Guardian. 17 September 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
  5. "The Duck House: MPs' expenses satire heads for West End". bbc.co.uk/news. BBC News. 16 September 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
  6. BBC Press Office
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