Neil LaBute
Writing
Awards
Nominated for 1 Tony Award
Tony Awards 1 nominated
- 2009 Best Play Nominated Reasons to Be Pretty
star on Playwrights' Sidewalk 1 won
- — star on Playwrights' Sidewalk Won
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Neil N. LaBute (born March 19, 1963) is an American playwright, film director, and screenwriter. He is best known for a play that he wrote and later adapted for film, In the Company of Men (1997), which won awards from the Sundance Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Awards, and the New York Film Critics Circle. LaBute created the TV series Billy & Billie, writing and directing all of the episodes. He is also the creator of the TV series Van Helsing. Critics have responded to his plays as having a misanthropic tone. Rob Weinert-Kendt in The Village Voice referred to LaBute as "American theater's reigning misanthrope". The New York Times said that critics labeled him a misanthrope on the release of his film Your Friends & Neighbors because of the film's strong misanthropic plot and characters. Britain's Independent newspaper in May 2008 dubbed him "America's misanthrope par excellence". Citing the misanthropic tone of the plot in the films In the Company of Men, Your Friends & Neighbors and The Shape of Things, film critic Daniel Kimmel identified a pattern running through LaBute's work of being that the unlikeable, main antagonists of those three films end up getting away with their lying, scheming and mis-deeds, coming out on top of all the other characters as the real winners of those stories by quoting: "Neil LaBute is a misanthrope who assumes that only callous and evil people, who use and abuse others, can survive in this world."
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Filmography
Writing
36 credits
Van Helsing
The Wicker Man
The I-Land
Out of the Blue
Full Circle
Fear the Night
Billy & Billie
Berlin, I Love You
Your Friends & Neighbors
Possession
House of Darkness
Tumble
The Shape of Things
Some Velvet Morning
In the Company of Men
Dirty Weekend
Some Girl(s)
This Is How It Goes
Stars in Shorts
Sexting
Bash: Latter-Day Plays
Current Events
After-School Special
Double or Nothing
The Mulberry Bush
Good Luck: In Farsi
Sweet Nothings
10 K
Middle of the Night
Denise
The Shape of Things
Tour de France
It's Okay
Sparring Partner
Black Chicks
BFF
Directing
26 credits
Billions
Hell on Wheels
The Wicker Man
The I-Land
Death at a Funeral
Out of the Blue
Nurse Betty
Lakeview Terrace
Fear the Night
Your Friends & Neighbors
Possession
House of Darkness
Tumble
The Shape of Things
Some Velvet Morning
In the Company of Men
Dirty Weekend
Stars in Shorts
Heavy Rain
Sexting
Bash: Latter-Day Plays
The Mulberry Bush
10 K
Black Chicks
BFF
Oh! Squints III
Producing
9 credits
Van Helsing
The I-Land
Out of the Blue
Fear the Night
I Melt with You
House of Darkness
The Shape of Things
The Vicious Kind
Black Chicks
Acting
8 credits
The Shape of Things
In the Company of Men
Some Girl(s)
Welcome to Lakeview Terrace: Behind the Scenes
Heavy Rain
Independent's Day
Raging Bull: Reflections on a Classic
Cleanflix
Other credits
1 credit
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