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James Butler

Originally from Tullaroan, Co Kilkenny, James Butler is a graduate of English and Philosophy at UCD, and trained as a primary school teacher in 1981. Currently he is a Home School Community Liaison Co-ordinator at St Anne’s National School, Fettercairn, Tallaght. He became interested in writing children’s drama through his work as a primary teacher dramatising poems and stories in the classroom, and participated in Barnstorm’s New Plays for Young Audiences writing project in 2004. His play Stuck in the Mud was first presented in a public rehearsed reading as part of the project’s showcase event at the Kilkenny Arts Festival in 2004. The play was then produced in full by Barnstorm Theatre Company in February 2005 and toured nationally.

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Play Title	Playwright
Stuck in the Mud	James Butler

Premiered In 2019

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Carmel Winters, Enda Walsh, Iseult Golden, Sarah Hanly, John Connors, Shane O'Reilly, Nancy Harris, Owen McCafferty, Frank McGuinness, Feli Speaks, Gina Moxley, Abbie Spallen, Michael West, Shaun Dunne, Manchán Magan, Eva O'Connor, Edna O'Brien, Aoife Martyn, Arthur Riordan, Andrea Molino, John O'Donovan (2), Deirdre Kinahan, Zoe Ní Riordáin, Karen Cogan, Jimmy Murphy, Ursula Rani Sarma, Zhu Yi, Pom Boyd, Stacey Gregg, Thomas Kane Byrne, Sinéad Burke, Dermot Bolger, Carys D. Coburn, Meadhbh McHugh, Colm Keegan (2), Phillip McMahon, Darach Mac Con Iomaire, Sonya Kelly, Margaret Perry, Joseph O'Connor (1), Kit de Waal, Ciara Elizabeth Smyth, Keith James Walker, Mark O'Halloran, Una McKevitt, Blindboy Boatclub, Emmet Kirwan, Rosaleen McDonagh, David Ireland, Jody O'Neill
Company
Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

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