[1] He grew up in Montréal-Nord and Rivière-des-Prairies, Quebec,[1] and was educated at Collège André-Grasset and the Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe.

[2] King Dave was first staged in 2005 as a solo one-man show in which Goyette played all of the characters himself.

[1] In 2020, Goyette collaborated with actor Anglesh Major to update the story with Black Lives Matter themes so that Major could star in a revival for the Théàtre Jean-Duceppe;[4] in 2023, Patrick Emmanuel Abellard also starred in an English-language translation of the Black-themed version for Centaur Theatre.

[5] In addition to King Dave, he has had other supporting roles in film and television,[2] and has had stage roles including Victor in Down Dangerous Passes Road (Le chemin des Passes-Dangereuses),[6] Marco in The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain),[7] and Caius Marcius in Coriolanus.

[8] In 2014, he had his first credit as a director, staging his own French translation of Mike Bartlett's play Cock for Espace 4001.