Patrick Cook is a co-moderator (with Frederick Freyer) of the 1st and 2nd Years at the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop in New York, where he also serves as Artistic Coordinator. Their musical CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS was produced by Manhattan Theatre Club in 1999 (directed by Lynne Meadow) where it was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for best musical. They are currently working on THE NIGHT BEFORE, a Christmas musical based on a story by Rod Serling, and THE OTHER SIDE, a musical about the Fox sisters and the birth of spiritualism. Pat was the 2001 recipient of the Ed Kleban award for outstanding lyrics.