Duane Boutté

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Member of SAG-AFTRA, AEA, and SDC

            Boutté has performed roles in premiere productions by Terrence McNally, Eric Overmyer, Charles Randolph Wright, Matthey Lopez, and Robert O'Hara and has appeared on television in Elsbeth, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Sex And The City, and shows going back to What's Happening Now.  Boutté has directed plays and musicals in regional theatres and universities including Cabaret, Othello, The Winter's Tale, Fences, Everybody, Home, and the world premiere of Neil LaBute's Appomattox (NYC).  He has collaborated as a composer on new musicals including Caravaggio Chiaroscuro (LaMama, NY), Lyin' Up a Breeze (Second Space, Fresno), and Thanks To The Lighthouse (NY Parks).  Students from his group and solo Shakespeare courses have moved on to perform leading Shakespearean roles at The Shakespeare Theatre (D.C.), St. Louis Rep., and Off-Broadway theatres.  Boutté was raised in Fresno CA where he was trained in piano by his mother and developed performance skills in local community theaters (Good Company Players, and Karisma Kida).   He studied at UCLA and the National Theatre Conservatory (MFA), and has taught acting at Illinois State University, National Theatre Institute, Ramapo College, and The New School.

Biography

            Duane Boutté is a New York based film and stage actor, director, and composer.  Best known as an actor in films Stonewall (1996), and Brother to Brother, his acting credits include the original Broadway companies of Parade, and the 1994 TONY Award winning revival of Carousel.  Boutté has performed leading roles in classical and contemporary plays Off-Broadway and throughout the country.  Among his favorite roles performed are "Charles Dickens" in Discord (Primary Stages, NY), "Mercutio" in Romeo and Juliet (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), "Orestes" in the Oresteia trilogy (inaugurating Berkeley Rep's RODA Theatre in 2001), "Bayard Rustin" in Civil Sex (Public Theater, Woolley Mammoth, Marsh Theatre, and Berkeley Rep), and his roles in the solo-show Dracula: The Journal of Jonathan Harker (to be reprised Sept. 2026 at Bannerman Island, NY).