Neil LaBute

• Oct-2025
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Reasons to Be Happy features the same four characters--Greg, Steph, Carly, and Kent--picking up their lives three years later, but in different romantic pairings as they each search desperately for that elusive object of desire: happiness.�,  Ne...

• Oct-2025
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His girlfriend, Marie, by whom he's fathered a child; Marie's overpowering desire for the alluring Drum- Major; and the murderous outcome of this oppressive admixture of circumstances is without a doubt one of the bleakest works of world literature. ...

• May-2024
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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...

• Oct-2014
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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 partner Be...

• May-2014
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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 eac...

• Dec-2013
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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 now fr...

• Jun-2010
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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, USA, ...

• Sep-2005
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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...

• Apr-2003
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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...