Alec Butler is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 playwright and filmmaker. Born intersex

Intersex

Intersex, in humans and other animals, is the presence of intermediate or atypical combinations of physical features that usually distinguish female from male...

 and raised as a female, he was known as Audrey and identified as a butch dyke before pursuing gender reassignment in 1999, and currently identifies as a Two-Spirit

Two-Spirit

Two-Spirit People , is an English term that emerged in 1990 out of the third annual inter-tribal Native American/First Nations gay/lesbian American conference in Winnipeg. It describes Indigenous North Americans who fulfill one of many mixed gender roles found traditionally among many Native...

 and transman.

He was a nominee for the Governor General's Award for English drama

Governor General's Award for English language drama

This is a list of recipients of the Governor General's Award for English-language drama. The award was created in 1981 when the Governor General's Award for English language poetry or drama was divided.-1980s:*1981: Sharon Pollock, Blood Relations...

 in 1990 for his play Black Friday. He has also worked on artistic projects with The 519 Church St. Community Centre

The 519 Church St. Community Centre

The 519 Church Street Community Centre, colloquially The 519, is a Canadian charitable, non-profit community centre in the Church and Wellesley neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario...

 as their first artist-in-residence. He was named one of Toronto's Vital people by the Toronto Community Foundation in 2006.

He is a Métis

Métis people (Canada)

The Métis are one of the Aboriginal peoples in Canada who trace their descent to mixed First Nations parentage. The term was historically a catch-all describing the offspring of any such union, but within generations the culture syncretised into what is today a distinct aboriginal group, with...

 of Mi'kmaq heritage.

Plays

• Shakedown
• Cradle Pin
• Radical Perversions: 2 Dyke Plays (1990)
• Black Friday (1990)
• Claposis (1990)
• Hardcore Memories (1993)
• Medusa Rising (1996)
• Ruf Paradise (2003)
• Trans Cab (2005)
• Cassandra File (work in progress)

Films

• Trans Mission: Get yer motor runnin', one man show at A-Space, Toronto 2003
• Misadventures of PussyBoy: First Love / Sick / First Period(screened at many queer film and video festivals, First Love won the Charles Street Award for emerging video and film makers in 2002 at the InsideOut Festival)
• Audrey's Beard(named one of the top ten films about transitioning by Curve magazine)
• 5 Seconds of Fame, commissioned by Toronto's Pride Committee for Pride Toronto, 2007
• My Friend, Brindley (works in progress, 3 short films about human rights activist and painter, Kathleen Brindley)
• Darla's Goodbye, short film based on short story of the same name published in Red Light:Superheroes, Saints and Sluts
• Trans Cab:the video (work in progress)