Neil LaBute

Quick Facts

Full Name	Neil LaBute
Occupation	Director
Date Of Birth	Mar 19, 1963(1963-03-19)
Age	61
Birthplace	Detroit
Country	United States
Birth City	Michigan
Horoscope	Pisces

Neil LaBute Biography

Neil LaBute is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on March 19, 1963 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Directed 2008’s Lakeview Terrace and 2006’s The Wicker Man. He was also the author of the award-winning play In the Company of Men.

His short, terse dialogue was likened to the world-famous playwright His terse, wordy dialogue was compared to that of world-renowned playwright David Mamet..

LaBute’s interest in the film industry came with a viewing of The Soft Skin (La Peau Douce 1964), said the director to Robert K. Elder in a 2011 interview for The Film That Changed My Life.

LaBute’s first produced play, Filthy Talk for Troubled Times (1989) — a series of biting exchanges between two “everyman” characters in a bar – was staged from June 3–5, 2010 by MCC Theater as a benefit for MCC’s Playwrights’ Coalition and their commitment to developing new work. LaBute also directed the reading. Originally when it premiered in New York City at the Westside Dance Project, the entire audience stood up and booed afterward. One audience member cried out, “Kill The Playwright!”

His mother worked as a hospital receptionist, and his father was an experienced truck driver.

Neil LaBute Net Worth

Neil LaBute is one of the richest Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Neil LaBute 's net worth $4 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He attended Bringham Young University, where he performed plays that were not acceptable for the religiously conservative school.

His 2002 play, The Mercy Seat, was a highly acclaimed production that made reference to the September 11th terrorist attacks.

Neil N. LaBute (born March 19, 1963) is an American playwright, film director, screenwriter, and actor. 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. He wrote and directed the films Your Friends & Neighbors (1998), Possession (2002) (based on the A.S. Byatt novel), The Shape of Things (2003) (based on his play of the same name), The Wicker Man (2006), Some Velvet Morning (2013), and Dirty Weekend (2015). He directed the films Nurse Betty (2000), Lakeview Terrace (2008), and the American adaptation of Death at a Funeral (2010). 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. Recently, he executive produced, co-directed and co-wrote the Netflix’s The I-Land. He also directed several episodes for shows such as Hell on Wheels and Billions.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Neil LaBute Dating?

According to our records, Neil LaBute married to Lisa Gore. As of December 1, 2023, Neil LaBute’s is not dating anyone.

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In 2001, LaBute wrote and directed the play The Shape of Things, which premièred in London, featuring film actors Paul Rudd and Rachel Weisz. It was turned into a film in 2003 with the same cast and director. Set in a small university town in the American Midwest, it focuses on four young students who become emotionally and romantically involved with each other, questioning the nature of art and the lengths to which people will go for love. Weisz’s character manipulates Rudd’s character into changing everything about himself and discarding his friends in order to become more attractive to her. She 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.

Facts & Trivia

Neil Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Neil LaBute celebrates birthday on March 19 of every year.

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 mid-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.” Critics labeled him a misogynist after the release of In the Company of Men.

How old is Neil LaBute?

59 years (March 19, 1963)

Where is Neil LaBute from?

Detroit, MI

How do you fight loneliness LaBute?

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Is Neil LaBute married?

Lisa Gore

Is Neil LaBute a Mormon?

LaBute is of French Canadian, English, and Irish ancestry, and was raised in Spokane, Washington. He studied theater at Brigham Young University (BYU), where he joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.