Neil LaBute

Known for WritingBorn 1963-03-19 (age 63)Detroit, Michigan, USA

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."Read more

Movies & web series

Billions

Hell on Wheels

Billy & Billie

Van Helsing

Denise

BFF

In the Company of Men

Full Circle

Cleanflix

The Vicious Kind

The Shape of Things

Fear the Night

Stars in Shorts

Double or Nothing

Nurse Betty

Lakeview Terrace

Out of the Blue

Possession

Death at a Funeral

Independent's Day

Some Velvet Morning

Your Friends & Neighbors

The I-Land

Heavy Rain

I Melt with You

The Mulberry Bush

House of Darkness

Some Girl(s)

After-School Special

Dirty Weekend

Bash: Latter-Day Plays

Berlin, I Love You

High School Spirits

The Wicker Man

Sexting

It's Okay

Sweet Nothings

The Shape of Things

Sparring Partner

10 K

Good Luck: In Farsi

Black Chicks

Middle of the Night

Current Events

Raging Bull: Reflections on a Classic

Tumble

Tour de France

This Is How It Goes