Name:
David Charles Goyette
Year Graduated:
2003
Degree:
M.F.A. in Directing
Favorite Memory of T&D:
Commiserating with my fellow directors (Brooke Brod, Matt Huff, Johanna McKeon & Gavin Mundy) and Breakfast Tacos, Mexican Martinis & Matching Scooters with Flordelino Lagundino.
Influential Professors or Classes:
Lee Abraham, Andrea Beckham, Michael Bloom, Oscar Brockett, John Brokaw, Pamela Christian, Fran Dorn, Lucien Douglas, Richard Isackes, Amarante Lucero, David Nancarrow, Michael Raiford, Susan Tsu, Lyn Wiltshire, Stacy Wolf
Current Hometown:
Juneau, Alaska
Current Profession:
Director of Education for Perseverance Theatre & Freelance Director/Playwright
Biography:
In addition to directing and writing for theatres around the country, David Charles Goyette oversees all education initiatives at Perseverance Theatre, including the supervision of the joint theatre training program with the University of Alaska Southeast. In 2004 he left African Continuum Theatre Company as the Associate Producer & Director of the Fresh Flavas New Works program to become the Director of Education for Perseverance Theatre. In Washington, DC, he directed African Continuum's A Lesson Before Dying and The Story to critical acclaim. His debut production at Perseverance Theatre, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, played to sold out crowds and was critically lauded, both in Juneau and Anchorage. Mr. Goyette recently directed the world premiere of Speech & Debate for Perseverance Theatre's Second Stage. Since receiving his BFA in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University, Mr. Goyette has become an award winning director and arts administrator, and has worked with Arena Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, The Source Theatre Company, Fredericksburg Theatre Company, Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage and Walt Disney Pictures. He has directed plays by Bertolt Brecht, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, David Henry Hwang, Tewfik El Hakim and Chiori Miyagawa among others. He has received the League of Washington Theatre's Offstage Honors Award, the A.C.T. Centerstage Award for Best Director and Best Production, the Robert Huckestein Jr. Memorial Award, the Michael Reimer Memorial Award and was recently named an Alaska Humanities Scholar by the Alaska Humanities Forum for a theatre project he's working on with the Ugiuvangmiut, an Alaska Native community which was removed from their homeland by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Mr. Goyette graduated with an MFA in Directing from the University of Texas at Austin.
