Neil N LaBute was born on March 19,1963 and is an American playwright, film director, screenwriter, and actor.
21 Facts About Neil LaBute
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Neil LaBute is best known for a play that he wrote and later adapted for film, In the Company of Men, which won awards from the Sundance Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Awards, and the New York Film Critics Circle.
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Neil LaBute directed the films Nurse Betty, Lakeview Terrace, and the American adaptation of Death at a Funeral.
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Neil LaBute is the creator of the TV series Van Helsing.
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Neil LaBute directed several episodes for shows such as Hell on Wheels and Billions.
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Neil LaBute was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Marian, a hospital receptionist, and Richard Neil LaBute, a long-haul truck driver.
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Neil LaBute is of French Canadian, English, and Irish ancestry, and was raised in Spokane, Washington.
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Neil LaBute studied theater at Brigham Young University, where he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Neil LaBute produced a number of plays that pushed the envelope of what was acceptable at the conservative religious university, some of which were shut down after their premieres.
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Neil LaBute taught drama and film at IPFW in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the early 1990s where he adapted and filmed the play, shot over two weeks and costing $25,000, beginning his career as a film director.
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Neil LaBute's play Bash: Latter-Day Plays is a set of three short plays depicting essentially good Latter-day Saints doing disturbing and violent things.
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In 2001, Neil LaBute wrote and directed the play The Shape of Things, which premiered in London, featuring film actors Paul Rudd and Rachel Weisz.
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Neil LaBute even pretends to fall in love with him, prompting an offer of marriage, whereupon she cruelly exposes and humiliates him before an audience, announcing that he has simply been an "art project" for her MFA thesis.
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Neil LaBute's 2002 play The Mercy Seat was a theatrical response to the September 11,2001, attacks.
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In 2010, Neil LaBute directed Death at a Funeral, a remake of a 2007 British film of the same name.
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Neil LaBute wrote new scenes and an introduction for the Chicago Shakespeare Theater production of The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare which ran from April 7 to June 6,2010.
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Neil LaBute framed the classic play in overtly metatheatrical terms, adding a lesbian romance subplot.
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Neil LaBute took part in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty Six Books, for which he wrote a piece based upon a book of the King James Bible.
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The Neil LaBute New Theater Festival is a festival of world premiere one-act plays that is produced by William Roth and St Louis Actors' Studio each summer at their Gaslight Theater and each winter at 59E59 street theaters in New York.
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Neil LaBute is credited as the showrunner and executive producer of the miniseries.
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In 2013, Neil LaBute was named one of the winners of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Arts and Letters Awards in Literature.