Jez Butterworth is one of the UK's leading playwrights. His plays
include: Mojo (Royal Court Theatre, London, 1995; West End, 2013);
The Night Heron (Royal Court, 2002); The Winterling (Royal Court,
2006); Parlour Song (Atlantic Theater, New York, 2008; Almeida
Theatre, London, 2009); Jerusalem (Royal Court, 2009; West End,
2010; New York, 2011); The River (Royal Court, 2012); The Ferryman
(Royal Court and West End, 2017) and The Hills of California (West
End, 2024).
Mojo won the George Devine Award, the Olivier Award for Best Comedy
and the Writers' Guild, Critics' Circle and Evening Standard Awards
for Most Promising Playwright. Jerusalem won the Best Play Award at
the Critics' Circle, Evening Standard and WhatsOnStage.com Awards,
and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. The Ferryman
won the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play, and the
Critics' Circle, Olivier and WhatsOnStage Awards for Best New Play,
as well as the 2019 Tony Award for Best Play.
His screenwriting credits include Fair Game (2010), Get On Up
(2014), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Black Mass (2015), Spectre (2015),
Ford v Ferrari (2019), and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
(2023).
For TV, he created and wrote the comedy series Mammals for Amazon
Studios, and created the historical fantasy drama Britannia for Sky
and Amazon Prime.
In 2007, he won the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of
Arts and Letters. In 2019 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Literature.
'Unarguably one of the best dramas of the twenty-first century'
*Guardian*
'Tender, touching, and blessed with both a ribald humour and a
haunting sense of the mystery of things... one of the must-see
events of the summer'
*Telegraph*
'Jez Butterworth's gorgeous, expansive new play keeps coming at its
audience in unpredictable gusts, rolling from comic to furious,
from winsome to bawdy'
*Observer*
'Storming... restores one's faith in the power of theatre'
*Independent*
'Show of the year'
*Time Out*
'Arguably the best play of the 21st century so far, a work whose
importance and resonance has only increased since its premiere in
2009'
*Whatsonstage (in January 2022)*
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