The Ferryman

About Jez Butterworth

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.