Neil LaBute

Neil LaBute's plays include bash, Reasons to Be Happy, The Money Shot, and The Way We Get By. His films include In the Company of Men, Your Friends and Neighbors, The Shape of Things, Some Velvet Morning, and Dirty Weekend. Television includes Billy & Billie and Van Helsing. He is a Lucille Lortel Playwrights' Sidewalk Inductee and a recipient of a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Neil LaBute's Titles

Dracula A Thriller in 2 Acts

Dracula

Award-winning playwright Neil LaBute's adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula for the stage features a fierce female Van Helsing as the vampire...


Reasons to Be Pretty Happy A Play

Reasons to Be Pretty Happy

After five years in New York City, Greg and Steph return to their hometown for their 20th high school reunion and to a dramatic encounter with...


How to Fight Loneliness A Play

How to Fight Loneliness

Brad and Jodie need Tate to do them a favor. A really big favor. Brad is married to Jodie. Jodie went to school with Tate. Tate doesn’t trust...


All The Ways to Say I Love You Two Plays and One Short Story: Off-Broadway Edition

All The Ways to Say I Love You

Award-winning playwright Neil LaBute's All The Ways to Say I Love You collects two plays and one short story that are "compelling . . . redolent...


In a Forest, Dark and Deep A Play

In a Forest, Dark and Deep

She's a college professor with a prim demeanor, and he's a carpenter with a foul mouth and violent streak. Betty has a history of promiscuity...


Miss Julie A Play

Miss Julie

Against a glittering jazz-age backdrop, mistress of the house Julie and ambitious servant John face off in a gripping, night-long encounter....


Exhibit 'A' Short Plays and Monologues

Exhibit 'A'

In the title play, Exhibit ‘A’, an artist pushes the boundaries of his art to a previously untouched frontier, challenging the very definition...


Way We Get By A Play

The Way We Get By

What they do have, however, is a very awkward encounter after spending one hot night together following a drunken wedding reception they attend....


Woyzeck A Play

Woyzeck

Award-winning playwright Neil LaBute's powerful adaptation of Georg Büchner's Woyzeck embraces the glittering darkness of the play's violent,...


Money Shot A Play

The Money Shot

Sexy, daring, darkly hilariousand award-winning playwright Neil LaBute's first officially billed comedyThe Money Shot lands as sharp and hot...


Things We Said Today Short Plays and Monologues

Things We Said Today

Things We Said Today features the scripts for award-winning playwright Neil LaBute's groundbreaking DirecTV project 10x10a series of short films...


Some Velvet Morning A Play

Some Velvet Morning

In the provocative two-hander Some Velvet Morning, award-winning playwright Neil LaBute continues to explore the nuances of gender relationships,...


Reasons to be Happy A Play

Reasons to be Happy

Reasons to Be Happy features the same four characters--Greg, Steph, Carly, and Kent--picking up their lives three years later, but in different...


Lovely Head and Other Plays

Lovely Head and Other Plays

Lovely Head and Other Plays is a collection from award-winning playwright Neil LaBute. The title play rivetingly explores the relationship between...


Distance from Here A Play

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...


Bash Three Plays

Bash

Neil LaBute burst onto the American theater scene with the premiere of BASH at NYC’s Douglas Fairbanks Theater in 1999 in a wildly praised...