Patrick Ball
Dr. Frank Langdon
Your storyline represents something we don’t often see — a doctor who struggled with addiction making amends to colleagues and patients. What has been the fan response?
This spring, while doing [the play Becky Shaw], I’d come out of the stage door and be face-to-face with a lot of Pitt fans. They would tell me recovery stories and hand me beautiful letters about loved ones who struggled with addiction and how seeing the scenes of betrayal or the loss of the sense of self that was portrayed onscreen helped them understand their family members. In real life, I am four and a half years sober, and the fact that I’m able to be a part of telling a story that gives people some direction or a sense of feeling seen is what you dream of your whole life.
It seems the universe put you exactly where you need to be?
