Neil LaBute

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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books
  • First Book:
    April 2003
  • Latest Book:
    October 2025
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Books in Order: 9 titles

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  • Reasons to be Happy

  • Woyzeck

  • Unlikely Japan and Other Plays, Ten One-Acts from Ten Years of the LaBute New Theater Festival

    St. Louis Actors' Studio (STLAS) and esteemed film director, screenwriter and playwright Neil LaBute publish a new book, Unlikely Japan and Other Plays: Ten One-Acts from Ten Years of the LaBute New Theater Festival. Since 2014, STLAS has worked with...

  • The Money Shot

    It’s been years since either one’s had a hit, but the latest movie by a hot-shot European director could change that. The night before filming a big scene (that will undoubtedly assure them a spot back on the pop culture radar), Karen, her partne...

  • Things We Said Today

    Things We Said Today features the scripts for Neil LaBute’s groundbreaking Directv project 10x10―a series of short films written and directed by LaBute based on ten compelling original monologues, five each for men and women.   Also includ...

  • Some Velvet Morning

    Velvet is enjoying a relaxing morning at home when Fred arrives on the doorstep of her New York City brownstone, suitcases in tow. He tells her he’s finally left his wife to be with her, news to Velvet since she hasn’t seen him in years and is no...

  • Filthy Talk for Troubled Times

    A collection of early work and new short pieces from “the bad boy of American theater” (Time). Neil LaBute burst onto the American theater scene in 1989 with his controversial debut Filthy Talk for Troubled Times. Set in a barroom in Anytown, U...

  • Seconds of Pleasure

    Stories from the award-winning director and playwright. "Labute's smart, edgy offering delivers pleasures well beyond the time frame his title suggests." -- Booklist In Seconds of Pleasure, Neil LaBute brings to the page his cutting humor and...

  • The Distance from Here

    His films In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors both gained critical renown for their biting satire and caustic wit. Now, with The Distance from Here, he has written his most riveting play yet, an intense look at the dark side of Ameri...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Neil LaBute has published 9 books.

Neil LaBute does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Woyzeck, was published in October 2025.

The first book by Neil LaBute, The Distance from Here, was published in April 2003.

No. Neil LaBute does not write books in series.
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