Patrick is a San Francisco based artist and illustrator who specializes in works related to music, literature and the stage. Mr. Kroboth designs sets and costumes for musicals, ballet and opera. He has illustrated books and done artwork for magazines and album covers, theater posters and film strips. His artwork has been exhibited in the United States and Canada and in galleries in Europe and Russia. He has created the stage and/or costume designs for productions of Un Ballo in Maschera, Pacific Opera Victoria (British Columbia, Canada), The Snow Queen, Studio 450 Theater (San Francisco), Leoncavallo’s La Boheme, Opera York (Toronto, Canada), Hansel and Gretel, Golden Gate Opera (San Francisco), Most Happy Fella, California Historical Society Gala Fund Raiser, Enter the Guardsman, Lamplighters Musical Theater (San Francisco) and Boy Gets Girl, Quickies and Wonder of the World for Actors Theatre (Santa Rosa, CA).  He also designed and stage directed Parlante’s Rossini’s 51st Birthday Concert featuring members of the San Francisco Symphony.  He has done sets for Lee Hoiby’s opera,  Something New for the Zoo,  Mozart’s  Marriage of Figaro  and  G&S  Ruddigore for Cinnabar Theater (Petaluma, CA).  In December 2005 his sets and costumes were seen in a highly accclaimed world premier opera based on Dickens' A Christmas Carol for the Canadian Children's Opera Chorus (Toronto).  Trinity Lyric Opera (Bay Area) selected his set and costume designs for its inaugural production of Vaughan Williams' Pilgrim's Progress in June 2006 and in 2007 he did the costumes and poster for TLO's The Tenderland  by Aaron Copland.
Patrick was asked to design the 6th Street Studio Theater in Santa Rosa and it's inaugural production off Becky Mode's Fully Committed, a play that he had also designed for Ross Valley Players (Marin County) in July 2007.
Next up, set designs for RVP production of Shadowlands by William Nicholson, a large-scale Hansel and Gretel opera design for the Marin Civic Center Auditorium,  Robert Ward's The Crucible  and Gift of the Magi by David Conti for Trinity Lyric Opera.