--- name: "Neil LaBute" canonical: "https://film.one/person/neil-labute" fi1m_id: "neil-labute" imdb_id: "nm0001438" tmdb_id: 58689 wikidata_id: "Q965498" roles: ["Director"] born: "19 March 1963" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "director" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-24T09:49:43.742218+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Neil LaBute ## Identity Neil LaBute - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/neil-labute - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** neil-labute - **IMDb ID:** nm0001438 - **TMDB ID:** 58689 - **Wikidata ID:** Q965498 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_LaBute, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q965498, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001438/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/58689 Director. Born 19 March 1963 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Director - **Born:** 19 March 1963, Detroit, Michigan, USA - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_LaBute, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q965498, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001438/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/58689 ## Streaming the US now - **AMC+:** [*Hell on Wheels*](https://film.one/tv/hell-on-wheels.md) (52) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Neil LaBute is an American playwright, film director and screenwriter. Born on 19 March 1963 in Detroit, Michigan, he studied theatre at Brigham Young University and later attended the University of Kansas and New York University. He is best known for the play *In the Company of Men* (1992), which he adapted into a 1997 film that won awards including the Filmmakers' Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival. LaBute has written and directed other films such as *Your Friends & Neighbors* (1998), *Nurse Betty* (2000) and *Lakeview Terrace* (2008). He directed several episodes of the series *Hell on Wheels* (2011) and created the television series *Billy & Billie* and *Van Helsing*. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, amc.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Hell on Wheels* (2011), Fi1m 52, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/hell-on-wheels.md) ## Complete filmography (46) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Murderous* (2026), Director, Writer - *Fear the Night* (2023), Director, Executive Producer, Writer - *The Shape of Things* (2023), Writer - *House of Darkness* (2022), Director, Writer, Producer - *Out of the Blue* (2022), Director, Writer, Producer - *Sparring Partner* (2022), Screenplay - *Berlin, I Love You* (2019), Writer - *The I-Land* (2019), series, Director, Writer, Executive Producer - *Black Chicks* (2017), Producer, Writer, Director - *10 K* (2017), Writer, Director - *Good Luck: In Farsi* (2017), Writer - *Van Helsing* (2016), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator - *The Mulberry Bush* (2016), Director, Screenplay - *Billions* (2016), series, Director - *Middle of the Night* (2015), Writer - *Dirty Weekend* (2015), Director, Writer - *Billy & Billie* (2015), series, Creator - *It's Okay* (2014), Writer - *Some Velvet Morning* (2013), Director, Writer - *Full Circle* (2013), series, Creator - *Some Girl(s)* (2013), Screenplay, Theatre Play - *Current Events* (2012), Writer - *Double or Nothing* (2012), Writer - *Stars in Shorts* (2012), Director, Writer - *Denise* (2012), Writer - *BFF* (2012), Director, Screenplay - *I Melt with You* (2011), Executive Producer - *Hell on Wheels* (2011), series, Director — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/tv/hell-on-wheels.md) - *Sweet Nothings* (2011), Writer - *After-School Special* (2011), Writer - *Sexting* (2010), Director, Writer - *Death at a Funeral* (2010), Director - *Heavy Rain* (2010), Director - *The Vicious Kind* (2009), Executive Producer - *Lakeview Terrace* (2008), Director - *Tumble* (2007), Writer, Director - *The Wicker Man* (2006), Director, Screenplay - *The Shape of Things* (2003), Director, Writer, Producer, Theatre Play - *Possession* (2002), Screenplay, Director - *Bash: Latter-Day Plays* (2001), Director, Writer - *Nurse Betty* (2000), Director - *Your Friends & Neighbors* (1998), Director, Writer - *In the Company of Men* (1997), Director, Theatre Play, Screenplay - *High School Spirits* (1986), Actor - *Tour de France*, Writer - *This Is How It Goes*, Novel ## Gallery - ![Neil LaBute](https://film.one/media/person/3771290/gallery-2830203ffb00.jpg) Neil LaBute — Phil Bray, Screen Gems, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Neil_LaBute_2010_photo_cropped.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Playwright and filmmaker Neil LaBute in 2010](https://film.one/media/person/3771290/gallery-3899964bdce9.jpg) Playwright and filmmaker Neil LaBute in 2010 — Phil Bray, Screen Gems, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Neil_LaBute_2010_photo.jpg/1280px-Neil_LaBute_2010_photo.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Troy Cook (Tom) and Tracy Cox (Helen) in the Final Scene of the Premiere of Matt Boehler's "Fat Pig". ©Victory Hall Opera 2022. Costume design by Caroline Cook.](https://film.one/media/person/3771290/gallery-58122654c64a.jpg) Troy Cook (Tom) and Tracy Cox (Helen) in the Final Scene of the Premiere of Matt Boehler's "Fat Pig". ©Victory Hall Opera 2022. Costume design by Caroline Cook. — NapaBrenda, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Fat_Pig_Opera_Final_Scene.jpg/1280px-Fat_Pig_Opera_Final_Scene.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated - Tony Award for Best Play 2009: Tony Award for Best Play (nominated), for *Reasons to Be Pretty* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/neil-labute