His other film credits include Dance Academy: The Movie (2017), 2:22 (2016), Holding the Man (2014), The Bank (2001), Two Hands (1999) and Dark City (1998).
Burns, a post-electric play.īutel has been nominated for two Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards for Best Supporting Actor in a Feature Film for Gettin' Square (2003) and Strange Fits of Passion (1999). He was also awarded Best Actor in Play in the 2017 Broadway World Sydney Awards for Mr. Butel has also received two Green Room Awards for Best Male Actor in a Featured Role (Music Theatre) for Piaf (2000) and Hair (2002) and four Sydney Theatre Awards - Best Director of a Musical for Violet (2015), Best Independent Musical for Violet (2015), Best Production for Young People for Spring Awakening (2016) and Best Actor in a Play for The Merchant of Venice (2017). Burns, a post-electric play and was nominated for Little Me (2008), Summer Rain (2006) and The Republic of Myopia (2005). īutel has been awarded four Helpmann Awards - three for Best Actor in a Musical for The Mikado (2012), Avenue Q (2010) and The Venetian Twins (2005) and one for Best Supporting Actor in a Play Mr.
In 2015, he made his New York debut at the New Victory Theater in the Windmill Performing Arts adaptation of Pinocchio. In 2013, he also played Hysterium opposite Geoffrey Rush as Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. In June and July 2013, Butel played Louis in the Belvoir St Theatre production of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.
He is also the voice of the Play School theme song. His music theatre credits include Little Me, Assassins, Kismet, Follies, Man of La Mancha, Dusty - The Original Pop Diva, Grease, Urinetown, Oklahoma!, Tom Foolery, Hair, Sugar, The Producers and A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. Burns, a post-electric play, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and The Merchant of Venice as Shylock. He earned a Helpmann Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance.īutel has worked extensively for many theatre companies including: Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Belvoir St Theatre, Queensland Theatre Company, The Production Company, Griffin Theatre Company and the State Theatre Company of South Australia appearing in productions such as Six Degrees of Separation, The Cafe Latte Kid, Tartuffe, Mourning Becomes Electra, A View from the Bridge, Othello, Stones in His Pockets, Boeing-Boeing, The Government Inspector, Strange Interlude, Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, Meow Meow's Little Match Girl, Romeo and Juliet, Woyzeck, Emerald City, Arms and the Man, Disgraced, Mr. The production then went to Sydney in August and then toured Canberra, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane and Auckland in New Zealand. The Australian production opened in June 2009 at the Comedy Theatre in Melbourne. He played the roles of two puppet characters in the production: Princeton and Rod. He was part of the original Australian Avenue Q cast in 2009. īutel attended the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and studied for a degree in Arts/Law, majoring in Theatre Studies and working as a paralegal in a law firm between terms. Butel became interested in theatre as a child after seeing the musical Song and Dance and later Little Shop of Horrors.