Bio of the playwright

Jez Butterworth

Full name: Jeremy Butterworth

~Born 3/4/1969 (Happy 40th, Jez!), Southwark, London. Grew up on a cul-de-sac in St. Albans, a town about 20 miles N of London.

~Attended Cambridge, which he describes as three years of doing 80 hours of theatre a week, and going to one lecture. (full article) and please note that they misspelled his name in the URL...

~Had his breakthrough hit, Mojo, in 1997, starring Harold Pinter (hm, have we met him?). Pinter became a mentor to him, the person to whom Butterworth first sent new plays.

~In his mid-30s (I say that like it's such a long time ago), Butterworth, his wife, and eventually two small children started a smallholding swine farm in Somerset (about 80 miles west of London, and about 45 miles east of Dartmoor), raising and slaughtering their own pigs. (full article)--I think that this may be the article, or at least similar to the one, to which Wendy referred about Butterworth butchering animals??

~Has written 7 plays: I Believe in Love, debuted 1992; Huge, debuted 1993; Mojo, debuted 1995; The Night Heron, debuted in 2002; The Winterling, debuted in 2006; The Parlour Song, debuted in 2008, and Jerusalem, debuted in 2009. (More information)

~7 movies as well: Huge, Fair Game, The Last Legion, The Birthday Girl, Mojo, Christmas, and Night of the Golden Brain