Author Bio

Neil LaBute

“My plays are polarizing," says Neil LaBute. "People love them or loathe them.” Born in Detroit, Michigan and son of a truck driver, LaBute began his career as a playwright but soon broadened his scope to filmmaking. Known for his quirky, provocative dialogue and twisted endings, LaBute chooses to portray subjects that many would not — and shows his audience the way that people really talk amongst themselves. After LaBute graduated from the University of Kansas and New York University, he got a scholarship to London's Royal Court Theatre. It was then he became interested in film and created them as he wrote his plays revealing characters speaking of how evil, ignorant, wounded, delusional, and disillusioned they were.

LaBute is winner of the Golden Palm, Cannes Film Festival for his work in Directing Nurse Betty (2000).