Designer, Community Volunteer, and Improvisor
Portola Valley, CA
Patricia Sullivan has owned her Bay Area design business for 30 years, serving clients including Sunset Magazine, Coherent, Thomas Kinkade Studios, and various advertising and marketing agencies. Prior to that, she worked as an art director in Sunset Magazine’s marketing department. Patricia and her husband, Tim, then moved to Florence, Italy for three years where she studied art, design and Italian at the Lorenzo de’ Medici Institute.
While raising her two sons, Patricia volunteered regularly in their schools as a designer, event planner, fundraiser and room parent. For years she taught an art program she designed for Ravenswood Classroom Partners, gave her time to Ravenswood Education Foundation, and created and chaired the annual Allied Arts Guild Artfest fundraiser benefiting Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.
Patricia is a passionate improvisor, and has been a member of, taught, and performed with improv teams since 1986 at venues like the American Improv Theatre, San Francisco Improv Festival, Oceanside Theater Company, Santa Cruz Improv Festival, Femprovisor Fest, Pan Theater, Finest City Improv, and Athens (Greece) Improv. She also writes and performs sketch comedy for Black Cat Sketch Comedy and the San Francisco Sketchfest.
Patricia has a BA in design from Stanford University.
DCI Fellow: Tim Sullivan