Biography

Gary LeGault is an artist, playwright and filmmaker, whose first comedy, Bravo Isabel, starred Paulita Sedgwick (Edie's cousin), and was presented at New York's Pulitzer prize-winning Theater for the New City in 1976. His initial screenplay, Ina and Bruno, was presented on Manhattan Cable Television in 1982. His next motion picture, The Roadsinger, was produced at EZTV in West Hollywood during 1985, followed by The Private Life of Marilyn Monroe in 1987. After a twenty-one year absence, Mr. LeGault returned to movie making with East of the Tar Pits, starring Holly Woodlawn, which premiered at the 2008 New York Underground Film Festival. In 2010, he presented his play, Doctor Noguchi, at The Complex in Hollywood, followed by his musical, Wind in the Widows, and drawing-room farce, Dial 'M' for Marlene, based on an intimate meeting between Marlene Dietrich and Marilyn Monroe. In 2023 Mr. LeGault returned to the Theater for the New City in New York, presenting his musical play, Joseph and Marsha, based on the life of civil rights activist, Marsha P. Johnson, followed by Camera Ready in 2025, a musical concerning the life of documentary filmmaker, Nelson Sullivan. As an artist and photographer, his portraits have appeared in the documentaries _Superstar in a Housedress (2004)_qv by Craig Highberger, and _Pay it No Mind - Marsha P. Johnson (2012)-qv by Michael Kasino.
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Once played Richard Rodgers piano at the Dramatists Guild in New York during a reading of his screenplay, The Roadsinger, which starred Jackie Curtis.

Mr. LeGault was a close, personal friend of Stonewall Veteran and LGBTQ activist, Marsha P. Johnson, who was a regular guest at his home in New York, where she would sometimes leave an impression of her face on his pillowcase in makeup. Years later, Miss Marsha and the filmmaker would be reunited at his apartment in Los Angeles, where she spent her final night in California on April 6th, 1991, prior to boarding a flight back east.

Mr. LeGault was also an early associate of the video documentary filmmaker, Nelson Sullivan, and it was his use of the medium that persuaded Mr. Sullivan to purchase his first video camera.