Patrick Collins was a porn director, producer, and actor (initially under the pseudonym Roscoe Bowltree), and was the co-founder (with Evil Angel's John Stagliano) of the major porn studio Elegant Angel. Collins began working for then-new studio Evil Angel in 1989 as a sales manager, and helped that studio grow, but the two had very different working styles, and Collins soon broke away with Elegant Angel, which went on to be a major and award-winning studio in its own right, and the studio fully split from Evil Angel to be fully independent in 1996. Collins and Elegant Angel gave several now well-known directors their start, including Tom Byron, Mason, Rob Black (Extreme Associates), Nicky Starks, and Axel Braun (son of legend porn director Lasse Braun).