Brian Patrick Butler

Brian Patrick Butler
Occupation	Actor, director, screenwriter
Years active	2011–present
Home town	San Diego, California, U.S.

Brian Patrick Butler is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and musician. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from San Diego State University and studied acting at Magdalen College, Oxford. He has performed in several plays and films, and directed two shorts as well as a production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at San Diego State University.^[1] In 2015, his film Hatred was nominated for best dramatic short at the Horrible Imaginings Film Festival.^[2] He was nominated for best supporting actor for Birthday Wish at the San Diego Film Awards in 2014.^[3] Butler's experimental music project Woyzeck currently releases original music and videos on Facebook, SoundCloud, and YouTube.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Writer	Director	Editor
2014	Birthday Wish (short)	Todd
2015	Distress Call (short)	Tud
	Bullets, Fangs and Dinner at 8[4][5][6]	Johnny
	Hatred (short)[7]	John	*	*	*
	Frat Stars Anonymous (web series)	Troy
	Thane of East County[8][9]	Matt
2016	The Phantom Hour (short)[10][11]	Bryce	*	*	*
	Fletcher and Jenks (short)	Ives
	South of 8	Ryan Bertrand
2017	Assumption	Man			*
	A Hole in the Ground (short)	Charlie

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2014	San Diego Film Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Birthday Wish	Nominated	[12]
2015	Horrible Imaginings Film Festival	Best Dramatic Short Film	Hatred	Nominated	[13]
2016	Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles Audience Favorite	Indi.com #TrailerChallenge (trailer editor)	South of 8	Nominated	[14]

Theatre

• The Elephant Man^[15]
• The Aliens^[16][17]
• Return to the Forbidden Planet^{[18][19][20][21]}
• Stage Kiss^{[22][23][24][25][26][27]}
• The Nutcracker^{[28][29][30][31]}
• Titus Andronicus
• Romeo and Juliet
• Godspell
• Hay Fever
• Peter Pan & Wendy
• Blithe Spirit
• Hamlet

References

1. "Laughs and tears in fresh show". thedailyaztec.com.
2. "2015 AWARD WINNERS". hifilmfest.com.
3. "San Diego Film Awards Nominees OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT". filmconsortiumsd.com.
4. "Two Sides of the Same Coin". matchflick.com.
5. "Bullets, Fangs and Dinner at 8 (2015)". searchmytrash.com.
6. "Charleston shooting may have disqualified film from festivals". imgur.com.
7. "Horrible Imaginings 2015 (Part 4: Sunday Afternoon)". horrorhouseparty.com.
8. "THE TEAM". thaneofeastcounty.com.
9. "Thane of East County". tbuff.org.
10. "Horrible Imaginings Film Festival 2016 Comedy Shorts Block: Part 1". cinema-crazed.com.
11. "Thane of East County". tbuff.org.
12. "San Diego Film Awards Nominees OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT".
13. "2015 AWARD WINNERS".
14. "Indi.com: Trailer Challenge".
15. "BROOKS THEATRE PRODUCTION OF "ELEPHANT MAN" A MASTERFUL PERFORMANCE". thevistapress.com.
16. "Review: 'Aliens' lands (quietly) at Ion". sandiegouniontribune.com.
17. "A Most Unlikely Partnership Fuels ion's Very Good 'The Aliens'". sandiegostory.com.
18. "Shakespeare in space! NVA set to visit 'Planet'". sandiegouniontribune.com.
19. "THEATER REVIEW: "Return to the Forbidden Planet"". sdgln.com.
20. ""Return" to New Village Arts". gay-sd.com.
21. "Shakespeare in Space". sandiegostory.com.
22. "Brian Butler and Daren Scott in Stage Kiss". sandiegoreader.com.
23. "When is a kiss just a kiss?". sandiegoreader.com.
24. "'Stage Kiss' a charming farce". sandiegouniontribune.com.
25. "Love runs rampant in New Village Arts' Stage Kiss'". sdcitybeat.com.
26. "Pucker Up for Comical 'Stage Kiss' at New Village Arts". timesofsandiego.com.
27. "NVA's Fair 'Stage Kiss' Has a Hard Time Coming Up for Air". sandiegostory.com.
28. "THEATER REVIEW: "The Nutcracker" musical at New Village Arts". sdgln.com.
29. "Review: 'Nutcracker' musical is bittersweet". sandiegouniontribune.com.
30. "New Village Arts' Nutcracker' isn't what it seems". sdcitybeat.com.
31. "THE NUTCRACKER". shauntuazon.com.

External links

• Official website
• Brian Patrick Butler at the Internet Movie Database