[15] He portrayed Chingachgook in the Goodspeed Opera House musical Glimmerglass in 1999.

In 2002, Mr. Damane portrayed Jake in New York City Opera's Porgy and Bess,[20] which was also televised on PBS's Live from Lincoln Center.

The following year, he played DuShawn McGovern on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

[28][29] He returned to Broadway in 2012 as George in the play Don't Dress for Dinner,[30][31] and as the General in The Book of Mormon.

He returned to the New York stage in the fall of 2021 with the new musical, A Turtle on a Fence Post.