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Leo Butler (born 1974 in Sheffield) is a British playwright. His plays have been staged, among others, by the Royal Court, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Almeida Theatre.[1] His plays have been published by Bloomsbury A & C Black.[2] His 2001 play Redundant won the George Devine Award. Between 2005 and 2014 he was Playwriting Tutor for the Royal Court Young Writers Programme.[3]

Leo Butler
Born	1974 (age 47–48) Sheffield, England
Occupation	Playwright, Screenwriter
Notable works	Redundant (2001) Lucky Dog (2004) Boy (play) (2016)

Plays

• Made of Stone (2000) premiered as part of the Young Writers' Festival at Royal Court Theatre, directed by Deborah Bruce
• Redundant (2001) premiered at Royal Court Theatre, directed by Dominic Cooke[4]
• Devotion (2002) produced by Theatre Centre premiered at Redbridge Drama Centre, directed by Liam Steel[5]
• Lucky Dog (2004) premiered at Royal Court Theatre, directed by James Macdonald[6]
• The Early Bird (2006) premiered at Queen's Theatre in the Belfast Festival, directed by Rachel O'Riordan[7]
• Heroes (2007) premiered by touring with the National Theatre, directed by Samantha Potter[8]
• Airbag (2007) a collaboration with Nigerian choreographer Anthony Odey, premiered as a Rough Cut at the Royal Court Theatre[9]
• I'll Be The Devil (2008) produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company, premiered at Tricycle Theatre, directed by Ramin Gray[10]
• Faces In The Crowd (2008) premiered at Royal Court Theatre, directed by Clare Lizzimore[11]
• Juicy Fruits (2011) produced by Paines Plough, premiered at Oran Mor, directed by George Perrin[12]
• Alison! : A Rock Opera (2012) co-written with Dan Persad premiered at King's Head Theatre, directed by Nick Bagnall[13]
• Could You Please Close The Door Please? (2012) premiered at Berlin Schaubuhne as part of the Festival of International Drama.[14]
• Sixty-Nine (2012) premiered at The Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, directed by Donnacadh O'Briain[15]
• Do It! (2013) premiered at Royal Court Theatre Open Court Season, directed by Ned Bennett.[16]
• Boy (2016) premiered at the Almeida Theatre, directed by Sacha Wares[17]
• Decades (2016) premiered at the Ovalhouse theatre, produced and performed by the BRIT School, directed by Eva Sampson.[18]
• Woyzeck (2018) an adaptation of Georg Buchner's original play premiered at Birmingham Repertory Theatre, directed by Roxana Silbert.[19]
• All You Need Is LSD (2018) produced by Told By An Idiot theatre company, premiered at Birmingham Repertory Theatre, directed by Paul Hunter and Stephen Harper.[20]
• Meet Mo (2020) short musical composed by Leo Butler, produced online by Theatre Royal Stratford East, directed by Eva Sampson.[21]

Film

• Self Made (2011 feature) co-written with Gillian Wearing, UK Film Council/Northern Film & Media, premiered at the London Film Festival 2011.[22]

Television

• Jerusalem the Golden (2002) single drama produced by BBC Four/Fictionlab, directed by Louis Caulfield, starring Rudolph Walker and Eddie Marsan.[23]

Music

• Alison! A Rock Opera (2012) a rock opera, written by Leo Butler and Dan Persad.[24]
• The Collective Psychosis of the 21st Century (2017) an album of songs written & performed by Leo Butler and Dan Persad [25]

Notes

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