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Leslie majored in Performance and Directing at Fordham University where she studied with Daniel Alexander Jones, Tina Benko, Elizabeth Margid, Dawn Saito, Elena McGhee and Grace Zandarski. She studied abroad at the Moscow Art Theatre and in Paris with NYU, studying contemporary French theatre. She was an apprentice at Williamstown and continued her acting and improv education with UCB, The Pearl Conservatory and She-Collective, among others. She is an intermediate French speaker.
A singer and actress, some 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).
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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."-UPSTAGE, Anastassiya Adrianova on Turn of the Screw at Lincoln Center.
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"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.
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"...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
