Britton Buttrill

Britton Buttrill is a Southern-American writer of fiction, poetry, and plays. His work has been short-listed for the 2017 Nick Darke Award , and he was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference.
Britton's fiction appears in The TONIC Journal and Sam Fifty Four literary. He is currently seeking representation for two unpublished novels.
Britton ’s non-fiction publications include Heresy Press' Speakeasy, The New York Times,"Tiny Love Stories", New York Theatre Review, and the Percolate Blog. He also writes a Substack newsletter, Art en Famille.
​As a playwright , his plays have been presented or developed with NYC Fringe Festival, HERE Arts, The Flea, Naked Angels, The New School, ESPA: Primary Stages, Crash Box, Dune Arts Center, Wide-Eyed Productions, Theatre Uzme...

Britton Buttrill is a Southern-American writer of fiction, poetry, and plays. His work has been short-listed for the 2017 Nick Darke Award , and he was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference.
Britton's fiction appears in The TONIC Journal and Sam Fifty Four literary. He is currently seeking representation for two unpublished novels.
Britton ’s non-fiction publications include Heresy Press' Speakeasy, The New York Times,"Tiny Love Stories", New York Theatre Review, and the Percolate Blog. He also writes a Substack newsletter, Art en Famille.
​As a playwright , his plays have been presented or developed with NYC Fringe Festival, HERE Arts, The Flea, Naked Angels, The New School, ESPA: Primary Stages, Crash Box, Dune Arts Center, Wide-Eyed Productions, Theatre Uzme, MITF, Ego Actus, Bottled Lightening and Atlanta Fringe Festival, among others. ​His poetry is published in the New York Public Library ‘Zine and Opium Magazine.

Britton holds an an MFA from The New School and an MA from Brooklyn College. He received his BA from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, and studied literature & writing at Trinity College; Oxford University.

Britt is an English teacher, a lover of boxing and pastel-painting, and he writes all of his first drafts on one of his typewriters. Britton lives in Providence with hiis wife and son.

Scripts

Prize Fight

by Britton Buttrill

Synopsis

Harlem, 2020. Matt, a public-school English teacher on the road to marriage, takes boxing lessons from Amir, an ex-champion fighting for custody of his daughter, during the height of the racial justice protests. A movement play staged in twelve rounds, showing two men facing the demands of fatherhood, marriage, and pregnancy loss.

Development:

Drama Guild Writer’s Group (2023)

Harlem, 2020. Matt, a public-school English teacher on the road to marriage, takes boxing lessons from Amir, an ex-champion fighting for custody of his daughter, during the height of the racial justice protests. A movement play staged in twelve rounds, showing two men facing the demands of fatherhood, marriage, and pregnancy loss.

Development:

Drama Guild Writer’s Group (2023)

The Weigh-In

by Britton Buttrill

Synopsis

"The Weigh-In" is Southern drama about the members of a high school wrestling community in a small town in rural Georgia. Best friends, Lowery and Grayson, vie for the same weight class at Varsity State Championships. Grayson's illicit affair with their coach, Ray, is threatened by the sudden arrival of Grayson's estranged sister, Natalie– Ray's high school sweetheart. Meanwhile, Lowery embarks on a dangerous...

"The Weigh-In" is Southern drama about the members of a high school wrestling community in a small town in rural Georgia. Best friends, Lowery and Grayson, vie for the same weight class at Varsity State Championships. Grayson's illicit affair with their coach, Ray, is threatened by the sudden arrival of Grayson's estranged sister, Natalie– Ray's high school sweetheart. Meanwhile, Lowery embarks on a dangerous crash-diet in order to lose weight in time for State Championships. Who wins, who loses, and who survives?

Scratching

by Britton Buttrill

Synopsis

Sex, drugs, and illegal tattoos collide in a nameless Southern blue-collar town. Brianna, a dancer at a truck-stop strip club, lives in a run down trailer with her boyfriend Christian. Christian is trying to scrape out a future giving illegal tattoos after a cocaine-induced slip of his hand blacklisted him from licensed parlors. Brianna and Christian’s meager lives begin spiraling out of control when Christian...

Sex, drugs, and illegal tattoos collide in a nameless Southern blue-collar town. Brianna, a dancer at a truck-stop strip club, lives in a run down trailer with her boyfriend Christian. Christian is trying to scrape out a future giving illegal tattoos after a cocaine-induced slip of his hand blacklisted him from licensed parlors. Brianna and Christian’s meager lives begin spiraling out of control when Christian’s ex-fiancé–– New York actress, Tracy–– arrives with a new ring on her finger and the desire to get Christian back. It is then that Adrian, Christian’s brother, enters the mix with a bag of MDMA that promises financial stability. A doomed circle of unrequited love unfolds between the four of them, causing Adrian and Christian to confront the past, the present, and ultimately each other.

Temporal

by Britton Buttrill

Synopsis

During the height of the early-2000s Atlanta hardcore-rock scene, two teenage epileptics find a thread of connection by inducing seizures together.

During the height of the early-2000s Atlanta hardcore-rock scene, two teenage epileptics find a thread of connection by inducing seizures together.

Juggalicious

by Britton Buttrill

Synopsis

Told through the surreal mythology of the Insane Clown Posse, a family of "juggalos" journey to The Gathering, where they enter the heart of the Dark Carnival to save their dying grandmother.

Told through the surreal mythology of the Insane Clown Posse, a family of "juggalos" journey to The Gathering, where they enter the heart of the Dark Carnival to save their dying grandmother.

Blood of the Lamb

by Britton Buttrill

Synopsis

McKenna, an adopted Korean teenager, lives with her mother and soon to be step-father in Bible Belt America during the Age of Trump. When Ty, her step-brother, returns from a stint as a Youth Minister at an Evangelical Summer camp holding a dark secret that threatens the fabric of his faith, McKenna must confront the bigotry that simmers beneath the pious surface of Christian culture. As the politics of the 2016...

McKenna, an adopted Korean teenager, lives with her mother and soon to be step-father in Bible Belt America during the Age of Trump. When Ty, her step-brother, returns from a stint as a Youth Minister at an Evangelical Summer camp holding a dark secret that threatens the fabric of his faith, McKenna must confront the bigotry that simmers beneath the pious surface of Christian culture. As the politics of the 2016 Election Season slowly encroach on this slice of Americana, a family tied together by a thread quickly unravels.

Knives for Girls

by Britton Buttrill

Synopsis

Jax, a 30 something graduate of Columbia Teacher’s College is teaching English for America in the Heartland with her party-hard Bio instructor best friend, Angel. Just as news reports begin pouring in about dead bodies piling up across the country, Jax’s socially inept sister Daisy moves in with her... accompanied by the demonic ghost of Daisy's dead cat, Miss Smushface. This dark sibling comedy asks, “What’s...

Jax, a 30 something graduate of Columbia Teacher’s College is teaching English for America in the Heartland with her party-hard Bio instructor best friend, Angel. Just as news reports begin pouring in about dead bodies piling up across the country, Jax’s socially inept sister Daisy moves in with her... accompanied by the demonic ghost of Daisy's dead cat, Miss Smushface. This dark sibling comedy asks, “What’s the highest cost of family loyalty?”