Rick Butts writes plays. Because he wants to.
For some reason, Rick Butts began writing plays. For the previous thirty-plus years, he wrote stuff for corporate clients. Then one day, he decided being a speechwriter and ghostwriter for the people who hire speechwriters and ghostwriters wasn’t what he wanted anymore. So now he writes plays. When asked why, he said “Because I want to.”
Rick is a member of the Playwrights’ Guild of Canada and Theatre BC. He has degrees in English literature and drama from McGill University (Montreal) and University of Toronto. He studied professional acting at the Banff School of Fine Arts (Banff, Alberta).
Once upon a time, he was an actor in community and university theatre productions. Dozens of them. He doesn’t act anymore. Different from acting out which he does on occasion. But he doesn’t act in plays. He only writes them.
Once upon another time, he also wrote short stories which were published in magazines and won some prizes. He doesn’t do that anymore either. Too busy writing plays. Because he’s a playwright. Writing plays.
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