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Jeremy "Jez" Butterworth is an English playwright, screenwriter, and film director. He has written screenplays in collaboration with his brothers, John-Henry and Tom.
Jez Butterworth. Writer: Edge of Tomorrow. His feature film directorial debut Mojo (1997) starred Ian Hart, Ewen Bremner, Aidan Gillen and Harold Pinter and was officially selected for the 1998 Venice Film Festival.
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- Writer, Producer, Actor
- Southwark, London, England, UK
- Jez Butterworth
May 2, 2017 · Learn about the playwright's influences, style and career in this frank and wide-ranging conversation with theartsdesk. From Mojo to The Ferryman, Butterworth reveals his secrets of writing for the stage and his relationship with Pinter.
Nov 3, 2014 · Jez Butterworth has a need to move between country and city, stage and screen. Illustration by Conor Langton. One afternoon in early October, Hugh Jackman strode around a rehearsal...
Jan 24, 2019 · On a recent blustery afternoon, Jez Butterworth, whose extraordinary play, “The Ferryman,” opened, in November, on Broadway, after a sold-out run in London’s West End, sat with his hands cupped...
Nov 4, 2011 · As his roistering, raggedly brilliant play Jerusalem returns to the West End for the final time, the writer talks to Sarfraz Manzoor on what the script says about him -- and how it relates to ...
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Apr 30, 2022 · Jerusalem, Jez Butterworth’s masterpiece, takes on new meaning in 2022. This stirring, slick play on Englishness returns 13 years later, with the same lead actors, Mark Rylance and Mackenzie Crook. In a new context, its message has changed.
