Patricia Neary Patricia Neary Patricia Neary (born October 27, 1942) is an American ballerina, choreographer and ballet director, who has been particularly active in Switzerland. She has also been a highly successful ambassador for the Balanchine Trust, bringing George Balanchine's ballets to 60 cities around the globe. Born in Miami, Florida, she first studied there under George Milenoff and Thomas Armour until she attended the School of American Ballet in New York. At the age of 14, she joined the National Ballet of Canada as the youngest dancer in the company. In 1960, she became a member of the New York City
Jo Neary where she wrote plays and performed her first character-based comedy shows. As well as writing her own material, she also acted in plays and sketches written by Brian Mitchell and Joseph Nixon. Many of the songs in her shows are written by Mitchell. Neary has said, 'I don't like comic songs particularly but I do love singing and dancing about.' In 1998-9, Neary played the female lead, a French "femme fatale", in "The Ministry of Biscuits", a dystopian comic musical by Brian Mitchell and Philip Reeve. 'Stop! Think before you eat that biscuit! Is it in any way fancy? If