Patrick graduated in 2011 with a BA in Theater from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. He starred in several productions on campus such as Dante's Inferno, Raised in Captivity, Shakespeare's MacBeth, and the musicals Into the Woods and Chicago. He also starred in Sandstone Productions' summer performances of Annie Get Your Gun in 2009. In 2010, Patrick collaborated with a group of classmates to produce Deja Vu, an original play in conjunction with Kari Margolis, developer of the Margolis Method of Acting in New York.