Gene Gillette, Attended DA 1989-’90: Actor

Gene Gillette is an American stage and television actor who attended a year of high school at Denver Academy in 1989-1990.

“Denver Academy is a school that values the individual,” he says. “It is a place that realizes we are all different and that we all learn differently. It was the place that fostered and encouraged that individuality in me, including my love of the theater.”

Gillette recently concluded his first run on Broadway in the Lincoln Center production of To Kill a Mockingbird which has been called "The Most Successful American Play in Broadway History" by “60 Minutes.” While a part of To Kill A Mockingbird, he was also a member of the first-ever production of a Broadway play to appear at Madison Square Garden. Gillette is known as well for portraying Ed Boone in the Broadway First National Tour of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time for The National Theatre.

“Theater is one of the best opportunities for both the actors and the audience to get inside someone else’s skin and walk around for a bit,” says Gillette. “It is a truly wonderful way to help us all understand how different we are but also how alike we all are. I’m so excited to see and hear about all the conversations and breakthroughs this new DA Performing Arts Center will help foster, hopefully, much the same way DA helped foster me!”

Gillette’s other theatrical credits include: War Horse (Second Broadway National Tour), Macbeth (with Frances McDormand), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Romeo & Juliet, As You Like It (Folger Theatre), A Streetcar Named Desire (TheatreWorks) and others.

 

He has appeared on multiple television shows, including "The Punisher,” "The Blacklist," "Quantico," "The Good Wife," "Elementary," "Person of Interest," "Ringer," "Madam Secretary," "Instinct," and "Law & Order: SVU."

 

Gene received his MFA in Classical Acting from George Washington University and his BFA in Acting from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He currently resides in New York City.