Notes from a Working-Class Playwright (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350429475)

Leo Butler is an award-winning playwright from Sheffield, UK. His plays have been produced by many of the UK's most important theatres, including the National Theatre, Royal Court, Almeida, Birmingham Rep, and Royal Shakespeare Company. He has taught and run workshops at major international theatres and cultural centres, including Teatro De La Palabra in Chile; Dot Theatre in Turkey; Studio Emad Eddin in Egypt; National Theatre in Nigeria; Reps Theatre in Zimbabwe; Market Theatre in South Africa; Teatro Britanico in Peru; and Merlin International Theater in Hungary. He has written many celebrated plays about young people, including Made of Stone (Royal Court), Redundant (Royal Court - winner of the George Divine Award), Boy (Almeida) and Decades (Brit School/Bridge Theatre Co.) He has written historical plays such as I'll Be The Devil (RSC) and contemporary dramas such as Lucky Dog (Royal Court), Faces in the Crowd (Royal Court), The Early Bird (Queen's Theatre, Belfast) and All You Need is LSD (Birmingham Rep). He has also adapted classics like Woyzeck (Birmingham Rep), pantomimes and comedies such as Cinderella (Theatre Royal Stratford East), and written musicals such as Alison! The Rock Opera (Royal Court/King's Head). For 10 years, Leo Butler was Writers Tutor at the Royal Court Theatre and helped nurture a new generation of playwriting talent.