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Dan Butler

DAN BUTLER

  (1954 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Gersh Agency  

Dan was born on December 2 1954 in Huntingdon, Indiana but gre up in nearby Fort Wayne.In High School he was elected class president. He dropped out of university to study acting at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. In 1977 he had his first gay romance and wrote to his siter about it. His mother saw the letter and both women though surprised supported him. However his father did not - hence the title of the play. He appeared in "Lisbon Traviata" both in New York and Los Angeles. Dan has appeared in numerous television programmes. He had recurring roles in both "Roseann" and "Frasier". He has campaigned for glbt rights and for aIDS charities. He married acting teacher Richard Waterhouse in 1999 on their fifth anniversary together.

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below is a list of Dan Butler's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Case Of the Dead Flamingo Dancer,the         Only Thing Worse You Could Have Told Me, The

Case Of the Dead Flamingo Dancer,the

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written by Dan Butler And Donald Oliver

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Thorndike Leatherhead     1991

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Only Thing Worse You Could Have Told Me, The

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Billed as a "whirlwind tour of the gay American landscape," this one-man show juxtaposes ten predominantly gay characters in fourteen vignettes. the characters question, contradict and especially challenge one another's credo of what "being gay" really means

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1997   -

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Monologues One act. - - Gay, full length

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