Known For
Writing
Born
Mar 19, 1963
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Credits
50 titles
Neil LaBute
Biography
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."
Known For
Filmography
Fear the Night
Director
The Shape of Things
Writer
House of Darkness
Director
Out of the Blue
Director
Sparring Partner
Screenplay
Berlin, I Love You
Writer
The I-Land
Director
Black Chicks
Director
10 K
Director
Good Luck: In Farsi
Writer
Van Helsing
Writer
The Mulberry Bush
Screenplay
Billions
Director
Middle of the Night
Writer
Dirty Weekend
Director
Billy & Billie
Creator
It's Okay
Writer
Some Velvet Morning
Director
Full Circle
Creator
Some Girl(s)
Theatre Play
Current Events
Writer
Double or Nothing
Writer
Stars in Shorts
Director
Denise
Writer
BFF
Director
I Melt with You
Executive Producer
Hell on Wheels
Director
Sweet Nothings
Writer
After-School Special
Writer
Raging Bull: Reflections on a Classic
Self
Sexting
Director
Death at a Funeral
Director
Heavy Rain
Himself
The Vicious Kind
Executive Producer
Cleanflix
Self
Welcome to Lakeview Terrace: Behind the Scenes
Self
Lakeview Terrace
Director
Tumble
Director
The Wicker Man
Director
The Shape of Things
Director
Possession
Director
Bash: Latter-Day Plays
Director
Nurse Betty
Director
Your Friends & Neighbors
Director
Independent's Day
Self
In the Company of Men
Director
High School Spirits
This Is How It Goes
Novel
Tour de France
Writer
Oh! Squints III
Director