Staircase is a 1969 film adaptation of a two-character play, also called "Staircase", by Charles Dyer.
 The film, like the play, is about an aging gay couple who own a barber shop in the East End of London.
 One of them is a part-time actor about to go on trial for propositioning a police officer.
 The action takes place over the course of one night as they discuss their loving but often volatile past together and possible future without each other.
The New Normal is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 10, 2012, to April 2, 2013.
 The series was created and principally written by Ryan Murphy and Ali Adler.
 The storyline follows wealthy gay couple Bryan (Andrew Rannells) and David (Justin Bartha), who are living in Los Angeles.
 Deciding to have a child, they choose a surrogate mother, Goldie Clemmons (Georgia King), who moves into their home with her 9-year-old daughter Shania (Bebe Wood).
Andrew Scott Rannells (born August 23, 1978) is an American actor, voice actor, and singer.
Don Korotsky Norte is an American gay rights political activist.
 He is one half of a Los Angeles gay couple who have been together since meeting in high school in 1978.
 Don's initial desire to marry his high school sweetheart made headlines in a 1995 "Los Angeles Times" article when the couple expressed their desire to hop on a plane to Hawaii and then seek to enforce their marriage rights in California.
 The Times article was one of the first that documented the rise of Defense of Marriage Act or DOMA a year later.
 In 2008 "Advocate Magazine" featured Norte's marriage to his spouse during the Summer of Love in 2008.
 Norte and his spouse were both Log Cabin Republicans during the campaign for marriage equality.
Justin Lee Bartha (born July 21, 1978) is an American actor, known for his roles as Riley Poole in the "National Treasure" film series, Doug Billings in "The Hangover" trilogy, and David Sawyer in the NBC comedy series "The New Normal".
Jayson Blair (born May 17, 1984) is an American actor.
 He has appeared in many films and television series, including being a cast member of the sitcoms "The Hard Times of RJ Berger" (2010-2011) and "The New Normal" (2012-2013).
Ben and Arthur is a 2002 American romantic drama film written, directed, produced, edited, scored by and starring Sam Mraovich, distributed by Ariztical Entertainment.
 The film concerns a recently married gay couple who face opposition from one partner's brother, who plots to murder them after being ostracized by his church.
 The film was a box office bomb, having earned only $40,000 as of 2011.
 It is considered by some to be one of the worst movies ever made.
Elisha Yaffe (born August 13, 1983) is a comedian, actor and writer.
 He has co-created webseries, including "Downers Grove", "Minor Stars" and "Remember When".
 He has appeared in commercials for Mike's Hard Lemonade, Time Warner Cable, Samsung, Wendy's, McDonald's, Nintendo 3DS and Hanes.
 He has appeared in television shows including Better Call Saul, The Newsroom, Mad Men, Southland, Up All Night, The New Normal and and regularly voices the character of Jimmy Olsen and B'dg on DC Nation Shorts's Tales of Metropolis and Super-Pets.
It's All Relative is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from October 1, 2003 until April 6, 2004.
 The series is about two families in Boston — one lower-class Irish Catholic and the other an upper-class WASP household headed by a gay couple — who are reluctantly joined together when their kids get engaged.
Staircase is a two-character play by Charles Dyer about an aging gay couple who own a barber shop in the East End of London.
 One of them is a part-time actor about to go on trial for propositioning a police officer.
 The action takes place over the course of one night as they discuss their loving but often volatile past together and possible future without each other.

Question: Who is the American actor that plays one of the wealthy gay couple in The New Normal that was born on August 23, 1978?
Answer: Andrew Rannells