Neil LaBute

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
Writing
Born
March 19, 1963 (age 62)
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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Cleanflix

2010

Heavy Rain

1998

Independent's Day

1986

High School Spirits

2011

Raging Bull: Reflections on a Classic

2000

Nurse Betty

2022

House of Darkness

2002

Possession

2002

Possession

2003

The Shape of Things

2006

The Wicker Man

2010

Death at a Funeral

2008

Lakeview Terrace

1997

In the Company of Men

2022

Sparring Partner

1998

Your Friends & Neighbors

1998

Your Friends & Neighbors

2012

Stars In Shorts

2013

Some Velvet Morning

2013

Some Velvet Morning

2012

Denise

2013

Some Girl(s)

2013

Some Girl(s)

2001

Bash: Latter-Day Plays

2015

Middle of the Night

2003

The Shape of Things

2011

Sweet Nothings

2001

Bash: Latter-Day Plays

2011

After-School Special

2007

Tumble

2007

Tumble

2012

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Sexting

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Out of the Blue

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Out of the Blue

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House of Darkness

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Out of the Blue

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House of Darkness

2017

10 K

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10 K

2019

Berlin, I Love You

2015

Dirty Weekend

2015

Dirty Weekend

2012

BFF

2012

BFF

2011

I Melt with You

2012

Double or Nothing

2016

The Mulberry Bush

2016

The Mulberry Bush

2023

The Shape of Things

1997

In the Company of Men

1997

In the Company of Men

2023

Fear the Night

2023

Fear the Night

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Fear the Night

2006

The Wicker Man

2012

Stars In Shorts

2003

The Shape of Things

2017

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2017

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Black Chicks

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Black Chicks

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It's Okay

2003

The Shape of Things

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Van Helsing

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Van Helsing

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