Patrick Burleigh is an American screenwriter, playwright, and essayist. He is best known as a screenwriter for  Eternals, Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway, and Ant-Man and the Wasp. Burleigh grew up in New York City and Los Angeles before attending Dartmouth College and Trinity College Dublin. In 2015, he sold his screenplay adaptation of Nicholas Griffin's book, Ping-Pong Diplomacy: The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World, to Village Roadshow Pictures.