King Dave was first staged in 2005 as a solo one-man show in which Goyette played all of the characters himself. The film adaptation featured several actors. in 2023, Patrick Emmanuel Abellard also starred in an English-language translation of the Black-themed version for
Centaur Theatre. In addition to
King Dave, he has had other supporting roles in film and television, Marco in ''
The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain)
, and Caius Marcius in Coriolanus''. In 2014, he had his first credit as a director, staging his own French translation of
Mike Bartlett's play
Cock for Espace 4001. ==Personal life==