Alec Butler
Alec Butler | |
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| Born |
Audrey Butler
1959 (age 64–65) |
| Nationality | Canadian |
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| Notable work | Black Friday (play) |
Alec Butler (born Audrey Butler; 1959) is a Canadian playwright and filmmaker.
Life and career
Butler was born in 1959, and is non-binary and intersex. Butler uses they/them and he/him pronouns. Assigned female at birth, he initially presented as a butch lesbian before coming out as transgender the late 1990s. Before he came out, his work was published under his birth name.
He was a nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama in 1990 for his play Black Friday. He has also worked on artistic projects with The 519 Church St. Community Centre as their first artist-in-residence. He was named one of Toronto's Vital People by the Toronto Community Foundation in 2006.
He self-identifies as having Miꞌkmaq heritage, and as two-spirit.
Plays
- Shakedown
- Cradle Pin
- Radical Perversions: 2 Dyke Plays (1990)
- Black Friday (1990)
- Claposis (1990)
- Hardcore Memories (1993)
- Medusa Rising (1996)
- Trans Cab (2005)
Books:
- Radical Perversions: two Dyke Plays by Audrey Butler published by Women's Press, 1991
- Novella called Rough Paradise published May 31, 2014 by Quattro Books
Films
- Trans Mission: Get Yer Motor Runnin' – One-man show at A-Space, Toronto, 2003.
- Misadventures of PussyBoy: First Love / Sick / First Period – Screened at many queer film and video festivals, First Love won the Charles Street Award for emerging video and film makers in 2002 at the InsideOut Festival.
- Audrey's Beard – Named one of the top ten films about transitioning by Curve magazine.
- 5 Seconds of Fame – Commissioned by Toronto's Pride Committee for Pride Toronto, 2007.
- My Friend, Brindley – Works in progress; experimental doc about human rights activist and painter, Kathleen Brindley.
- Darla's Goodbye – Short film based on a short story of the same name published in Red Light: Superheroes, Saints and Sluts.
- Trans Cabaret: The Video