Leslie Gauthier (pronounced go-tee-ay) has appeared in various short films and web series, including The Astronaut Hour (Winner: Best Actress, Manhattan Rep Film Festival), What Next, Tales of Toverud (LA Comedy Comedy Festival, Amsterdam Film Festival), The Ick (American Picture Company),and Flash Crash with Vance Barber (Bob Krakower teacher). She currently studies on-camera with coaches Patrick Dooley and Tina Benko in NYC and with the Last Acting Studio in Los Angeles.
Most recently onstage, Leslie has workshopped Kate Cortesi’s Ten Grand with Woolly Mammoth, and appeared in a reading of The Maltese Flacon at New York Stage and Film. Some previous theater highlights include Stop the Virgens at St. Ann’s Warehouse with Karen O, dir. by Adam Rapp; Turn of the Screw (David Rubinstein Atrium-Lincoln Center) dir. by Michael Kimmel with music & lyrics by Drew Gasparini; Pace in The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek (Hartford, CT).
Leslie majored in Performance and Directing at Fordham University and graduated with honors. She studied abroad at the Moscow Art Theatre and in Paris with NYU, studying contemporary French theatre. She’s an intermediate French speaker and trained alto/mezzo who loves a good harmony. She also plays guitar and ukulele. She was an apprentice at Williamstown and continued her acting and improv education with UCB, The Pearl Conservatory and She-Collective, among others.
When diagnosed with leukemia, Leslie continued to act when she could while on chemo for 25 months. She also began to write, and performed in her first play 23, while in treatment. She took a few years off to write and heal after treatment. She learned a lot — and is thrilled to continue to generate work she performs in, uplift other artists’ visions, and bring her experience to every role, audition, reading, callback, rehearsal, set, and performance.
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Reviews
“Also intriguing was the petite Flora (Leslie Gauthier); she was able to meld a mature prescience of imminent evil with a girlish naivete while sporting a black mini-dress, matching mud-stained keds, and a pixie cut.”
–Anastassiya Adrianova, Upstage on Turn of the Screw at Lincoln Center
“Leslie Gauthier does a great job with Alvida the captain/princess, a cold and often unlikeable character who is struggling with far more doubts than she will ever let her crew see.”
–Natalie Sacks, Charged.fm on Heart of Oak, Everyday Inferno
“…our teen protagonists, Dalton and Pace [are] played with clarity and pathos by Wesley Zurick and Leslie Gauthier.”
–Gilbert Gagliotti, The CT Halfwit on The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek