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We are Pat

🕒 8:00 PM
📅 September 19, 2025

Pat, the evasive, androgynous character made famous on Saturday Night Live by Julia Sweeney, was an inescapable figure in 1990s pop culture. As a child, filmmaker Ro Haber became obsessed with Pat—a character whose popularity stemmed from making others uncomfortable by defying gender norms. Decades later, and now an out trans filmmaker, Haber still grapples with Pat’s legacy. Thirty-five years after It’s Pat first aired, Haber assembles a group of queer and trans comedians, writers, and even Sweeney herself to revisit the character. Through conversation and critique, they aim not to erase Pat but to reframe them, transforming a symbol of ridicule into one of reflection and empowerment.

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$13.00

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Description

Three decades ago, Saturday Night Live bravely dared to ask “Who’s he… Or she?” and turned gender nonconformity into a punchline with its recurring It’s Pat sketch. Created by and starring Julia Sweeney, the character’s ambiguous gender and the way they managed to turn everyone around them into a transvestigator was such a hit with TV audiences that there was even an It’s Pat movie ghostwritten by Quentin Tarantino and featuring a musical cameo from Ween. (It was the 90s…)

In Rowan Haber’s We Are Pat, a who’s-who of trans comics (including Girl God, James Tom, Roz Hernandez, and Nori Reed) are tasked with the ultimate challenge: creating a new Pat sketch in the year 2025. Beyond being hilariously funny, We Are Pat is also a deeply moving interrogation of the boneheadedly problematic (yet nonetheless meaningful) representation of our collective past.

Cast and Credits

Director: Rowan Haber

Producer: Caryn Capotosto, Rowan Haber

Screenwriter: Rowan Haber, Hannah Buck

Cinematographer: Christine Ng, Mego Lin

Composer: Erick del Aguila

Editor: Hannah Buck

Executive Producer: Bill & Ruth Ann Harnisch, Meadow Fund, Geralyn White Dreyfous, Jenny Raskin, Marci Wiseman, Daniel Chalfen, Dawn Bonder, Chandra Jessee, Rebecca Lichtenfeld, Shauna Schmunk, Lilly Wachowski, Lauren Greenfield & Frank Evers, J Winkelried, Eric Kuhn, Beth Levison, Stuart Ford, Lourdes Diaz and Caroline Libresco, Pierre Hauser

Co-Producer: Kate Fisher, Leo DiSantis, Ryan Cunningham

Consulting Editor: Nathan Punwar

Additional Editor: Alex Bohs

Graphic Designer: Fons Schiedon

Cast: Julia Sweeney, Molly Kearney, Kevin Nealon, Esther Fallick, Abby McEnany, Pink Foxx, Roz Hernandez, Murray Hill, James Tom, Nori Reed, Robin Tran, Sabrina Wu, April Clark and Grace Freud

Event Details

Date: September 19, 2025

Start time: 20:00 EDT

End time: 22:00 EDT

Venue: Union Française de Montréal

Coordinates: 429 Avenue Viger E, Montréal, QC H2L 2N9

Directions: Union Française is just a 4‑minute walk from Champ‑de‑Mars Metro station (Orange Line) and a 7‑minute walk from Berri–UQAM. You can also arrive by bus (14, 30, 50, 150, 350, 361, 445) or bike. The venue is fully accessible. The front entrance has a few steps, but our back entrance is step‑free. We’ll have clear signs to guide you to the accessible entrance.

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