LaBute Neil

For Bash, The mercy seat, Wrecks, All the ways to say I love you, The shape of things, Made in America, Appomatox, The break of noon, Falling in like, Fat pig, Filthy talk for troubled times, The fourth Reich, The furies, Good luck (in Farsi), The great war, Helter skelter, How to fight loneliness, In a dark, dark house, In a forest dark and deep, In the beginning, In the company of men, Land of the dead, Lepers, Liar’s club, Lovely head, Merge, The money shot, Pick one, The possible, Reasons to be happy, Reasons to be pretty, Reasons to be pretty happy, Road trip, A second of pleasure, Some girls, Some velvet morning, This is how it goes, Totally, The way we get by

Neil LaBute received his Master of Fine Arts degree in dramatic writing from New York University and was the recipient of a literary fellowship to study at the Royal Court Theatre, London, and also attended the Sundance Institute’s Playwrights Lab. His films include: In the Company of Men (New York Critics’ Circle Award for Best First Feature and the Filmmakers’ Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival), Your Friends and Neighbors, Nurse Betty, Possession, The Shape of Things (a film adaptation of his play by the same title), The Wicker Man, Lakeview Terrace, and Death at a Funeral.

LaBute’s plays include: Bash: Latter-Day Plays, The Shape Of Things, The Mercy Seat, The Distance From Here, Autobahn (a collection of five of his one-act plays), Fat Pig, Some Girls, This Is How It Goes, In A Dark Dark House, and Reasons To Be Pretty which was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play.

LaBute is also the author of several fictional pieces that have been published in “The New York Times,” “The New York Times Magazine,” “Harper’s Bazaar,” and “Playboy,” among others. Seconds of Pleasure, a collection of his short stories, was published by Grove Atlantic.