Jez Butterworth
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.
Life and career
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 (journalist).
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 Xander Armstrong at TBA, a weekly comedy sketch show at the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill