Neil N. LaBute (born March 19, 1963) is an American playwright, film director, and screenwriter. He is best known for a play that he wrote and later adapted for film, In the Company of Men (1997), which won awards from the Sundance Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Awards, and the New York Film Critics Circle. LaBute created the TV series Billy & Billie, writing and directing all of the episodes. He is also the creator of the TV series Van Helsing. Critics have responded to his plays as having a misanthropic tone. Rob Weinert-Kendt in The Village Voice referred to LaBute as "American theater's reigning misanthrope". The New York Times said that critics labeled him a misanthrope on the release of his film Your Friends & Neighbors because of the film's strong misanthropic plot and characters. Britain's Independent newspaper in May 2008 dubbed him "America's misanthrope par excellence". Citing the misanthropic tone of the plot in the films In the Company of Men, Your Friends & Neighbors and The Shape of Things, film critic Daniel Kimmel identified a pattern running through LaBute's work of being that the unlikeable, main antagonists of those three films end up getting away with their lying, scheming and mis-deeds, coming out on top of all the other characters as the real winners of those stories by quoting: "Neil LaBute is a misanthrope who assumes that only callous and evil people, who use and abuse others, can survive in this world." Neil LaBute(1963년생, Detroit, Michigan, USA) 는 작가로, 대표작으로 반 헬싱, 위커맨, 아웃 오브 더 블루가 있으며, 그 외에도 I-랜드, 스와핑, 피어 더 나이트, 베를린, 아이 러브 유, 하우스 오브 다크니스, 어느 창녀의 하루, 포제션, 남성 전용 회사, 사물의 형태, Tumble, Dirty Weekend, Some Girl(s) 등 다양한 작품에 참여했다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2023년 피어 더 나이트 연출을 맡았다. 2023년 피어 더 나이트 집필을 맡았다. 2023년 피어 더 나이트 제작에 참여했다.