Patrick Nims is an award-winning stage director who has directed over seventy musicals, plays, and other productions for professional, semi-professional, community and school theaters in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, Portland Oregon and beyond. Founder and Artistic Director of Zoom Theatre and currently an Associate Producer at Stumptown Stages, Patrick has directed for Stumptown, Marin Summer Theater, 6th Street Playhouse, Ross Valley Players, Alterena Playhouse, Beaverton Civic Theater, Sonoma Arts Live, Novato Theater Company, Marin Onstage and more. Patrick co-founded Marin Summer Theater with Emily Gates and served as MST’s Artistic Director. Patrick Nims is a graduate of California State University San Francisco.

"The joy of directing comes from physically rendering the message, meaning and essence of an author's written work into a four-dimensional reality. The job of the director is to find the magic in the script and nurture and communicate the vision of the work to keep everyone and everything (sets, lights, costumes, actors, props, etc) focused on contributing to the story. Great theatre is created only when every component, piece and action embodies the story and engages the audience."