Before there was Neil Patrick Harris starring in How I Met Your Mother, another out gay actor was playing convincingly straight on TV. On the award winning series Frasier, Dan Butler was the very heterosexual sports jock Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe. The role pits Bulldog against the more fey, sensitive radio psychiatrist Frasier Crane played by straight & conservative Kelsey Grammer.
I am 2 degrees of separation from Daniel Eugene Butler. He was once boyfriends with the former partner of my longtime friend & college boyfriend- WCK3. I think Dan Butler is a terrific actor & my kind of guy.
Butler is also the writer & only performer of the play “The Only Thing Worse You Could Have Told Me…” which garnered critical acclaim across the country the world, including Drama Desk & Outer Critics Circle nominations during its Off-Broadway run. A multi-talented actor, writer, director, & producer, Dan’s love of creative invention stretches back to his Midwestern roots.
In 2009 Butler made his film directorial debut with Karl Rove, I Love You. Dan is also the producer, co-writer, & star of the film, a dark comedy shot in documentary style.
Throughout this rich variety of professional experiences, Butler has been of service in such organizations as Project Angel Food, Project Nitelight, the Suicide Prevention Center, ACT-UP, Human Rights Campaign, & the National Coming-Out Campaign. He is a proud contributor to the ACLU, the Los Angeles Mission, as well as many live theatres in LA.
Butler & his long time partner, writer/producer/actor- Richard Waterhouse live in Vermont. I like him a bunch.
I am 2 degrees of separation from Daniel Eugene Butler. He was once boyfriends with the former partner of my longtime friend & college boyfriend- WCK3. I think Dan Butler is a terrific actor & my kind of guy.
Butler is also the writer & only performer of the play “The Only Thing Worse You Could Have Told Me…” which garnered critical acclaim across the country the world, including Drama Desk & Outer Critics Circle nominations during its Off-Broadway run. A multi-talented actor, writer, director, & producer, Dan’s love of creative invention stretches back to his Midwestern roots.
In 2009 Butler made his film directorial debut with Karl Rove, I Love You. Dan is also the producer, co-writer, & star of the film, a dark comedy shot in documentary style.
Throughout this rich variety of professional experiences, Butler has been of service in such organizations as Project Angel Food, Project Nitelight, the Suicide Prevention Center, ACT-UP, Human Rights Campaign, & the National Coming-Out Campaign. He is a proud contributor to the ACLU, the Los Angeles Mission, as well as many live theatres in LA.
Butler & his long time partner, writer/producer/actor- Richard Waterhouse live in Vermont. I like him a bunch.
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