Jez Butterworth

Jez Butterworth
Born	Jeremy Butterworth March 1969 (age 47) London, England
Occupation	Playwright, screenwriter, film director
Notable works	Mojo (1995) Mojo (adapted for screen) (1997) Birthday Girl (2001) The Night Heron (2002) Parlour Song (2008) Jerusalem (2009)

Jeremy "Jez" Butterworth (born March 1969) is an English playwright, screenwriter, and film director. He has written screenplays in collaboration with his brothers, John-Henry and Tom.

Butterworth was born in London, England. His brother Steve is a producer and brothers Tom and John-Henry are also writers. He attended Verulam Comprehensive School, St Albans and St John's College, Cambridge.

He was inspired to read English at Cambridge after watching his older brother Tom in a Cambridge production of Brian Friel's Translations. His first play, co-written with Tom Butterworth, was Cooking in a Bedsitter (1991), an Edinburgh festival-staged adaptation of Katherine Whitehorn’s 'Cooking in a Bedsitter'. He co-wrote I Believe in Love, four short plays, in 1992 with his St Johns contemporary James Harding.

IN 1993 he co-wrote Huge with his flatmate Ben Miller And Simon Godley, which was about an unsuccessful stand-up comedy duo. In 1992 he had introduced Ben Miller and Alexander Armstrong at TBA, a weekly comedy sketch show at the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill.

Jez and Tom Butterworth wrote Night of the Golden Brain, a Carlton short film about a pub quiz team which was broad cast on 18 November 1993 on ITV as part of the Going Underground series. In 1994 and 1995 he had a brief acting career with small roles in The Bill, So Haunt Me and Chandler and Co.

Butterworth has had major success with his play Mojo (which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 1995). It won the Laurence Olivier, an Evening Standard and the George Devine awards.

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