Alec Butler

Alec Butler (born 1959) is a Canadian playwright and filmmaker.[1]

Alec Butler
Born
Audrey Butler

1959
NationalityCanadian
Occupation
  • Playwright
  • filmmaker
Notable work
Black Friday (play)

Butler was born in 1959, and is two-spirit, non-binary and intersex.[2] He uses they/them and he/him pronouns.[3] Assigned female at birth, he initially presented as a butch lesbian before coming out as transgender the late 1990s.[2] Before he came out, his work was published under the name Audrey Butler.[4]

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 is of Miꞌkmaq heritage.[4]

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

References
  1. Helkio, Raymond (January 18, 2017). "Alec Butler's "Rough Paradise" – Living Life Shamelessly". The Buzz.
  2. Butler, Alec (April 22, 2016). "At 12 I grew a beard and had a period". BBC News. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
  3. Noyes, Jenny (April 25, 2016). "Playwright on growing up intersex: 'At 12 I started growing a beard and had a period'". Daily Life.
  4. "Why be just one sex?". Maclean's. September 8, 2005. Archived from the original on June 13, 2010.
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