About the Artist: Oliver Butler
Oliver Butler’s directing credits include Jordan Harrison’s The Amateurs (Vineyard); Christopher Shinn’s An Opening in Time (Hartford Stage); Daniel Goldfarb’s Legacy (Williamstown); and the premiere of Will Eno’s The Open House (Signature) for which the play won the Lortel Award for Best Play and he received the OBIE Award for Direction. In Australia, he directed the premiere of Lally Katz’s Timeshare at The Malthouse in Melbourne.
Oliver is a co-Founder and co-Artistic Director of The Debate Society, a Brooklyn-based ensemble theater company, with whom Oliver has co-created and directed nine full-length plays since 2004 including The Light Years (Playwrights Horizons); Jacuzzi (Ars Nova); Blood Play (sold out runs at The Bushwick Starr, The Public’s Under the Radar Festival, and Williamstown); Buddy Cop 2 (Critic’s Pick in The New York Times, Time Out New York and Backstage); Cape Disappointment (PS122); You’re Welcome (The Brick); The Eaten Heart (The Ontological Incubator); The Snow Hen (Charlie Pineapple Theater); and A Thought About Raya (Red Room, The Brick, The Ontological Incubator).
In addition to What the Constitution Means to Me here at NYTW, this fall he is directing a new production of Will Eno’s Thom Pain (Signature Theater Company) starring Michael C. Hall. He is a Sundance Institute Fellow and a Bill Foeller Fellow (Williamstown).