Internationally celebrated for his smart and darkly hilarious plays (Some Girl(s), In a Dark Dark House) and films (In the Company of Men, Your Friends and Neighbors), Neil LaBute marks his sixth collaboration as MCC Theater’s Playwright-in-Residence. The production will be directed by Steppenwolf Theatre Company co-founder Terry Kinney, whose 2001 staging of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest took home the Tony Award for Best Revival. And the cast is a who’s who of hot young stars: Piper Perabo (Coyote Ugly, The Prestige), Alison Pill (The Lieutenant of Innishmore, Mauritius, Blackbird), Thomas Sadoski (Reckless, This is Our Youth), and Pablo Schreiber (Awake and Sing!, Dying City). 

Playwright
Neil LaBute

Director
Terry Kinney

Cast
Piper Perabo (Carly)
Alison Pill (Steph)
Thomas Sadoski (Greg)
Pablo Schreiber (Kent)

NEIL LaBUTE (Playwright) received his Master of Fine Arts degree in dramatic writing from New York University and was the recipient of a literary fellowship to study at the Royal Court Theatre. Films include: In the Company of Men (New York Critics’ Circle Award for Best First Feature, Filmmakers’ Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival), Your Friends and Neighbors, Nurse Betty, Possession, The Shape of Things -- a film adaptation of his play by the same title -- and The Wicker Man, starring Nicolas Cage. LaBute’s current film project is titled Lakeview Terrace and stars Samuel L. Jackson. It will be released in spring 2008. Plays include: bash: latter-day plays, The Shape of Things, The Distance From Here, The Mercy Seat, Autobahn, Fat Pig, This Is How It Goes, Some Girl(s), In a Dark Dark House. LaBute is the author of several fictional pieces that have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar and Playboy among others. A collection of his short stories was published by Grove/Atlantic in October 2004. (A Note from the Playwright)

TERRY KINNEY (Director) is a co-founder of Steppenwolf Theatre Company and a producer of Steppenwolf Films. He recently directed the independent feature Diminished Capacity, starring Matthew Broderick, Virginia Madsen, Oliver Platt and Alan Alda for Plum Pictures; which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and is set to be released by IFC Films. Terry was a series regular on “Oz” for HBO, for which he also directed several episodes. He directed the short film Kubuku Rides (This is It), adapted from the Larry Brown short story, featured at multiple festivals including Chicago, London, Oxford, Midwest Independent and Memphis (Winner-Best Narrative Short.) His film credits as an actor include The Laramie Project, The House of Mirth, Save the Last Dance, Devil in the Blue Dress, The Firm, Sleepers, Fly Away Home, The Young Girl and the Monsoon, Queens Logic and Miles from Home. Other television appearances include “That Championship Season” for Showtime and “thirtysomething.” He directed Steppenwolf’s Tony Award-winning Broadway production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Other Steppenwolf directing credits include The Violet Hour, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Clockwork Orange and And a Nightingale Sang . . . On stage at Steppenwolf he has appeared in Buried Child and The Grapes of Wrath, both also on Broadway, Orphans, also Off Broadway and Balm in Gilead.

PIPER PERABO (Carly) has been working non-stop since Jerry Bruckheimer’s Coyote Ugly. She was seen in Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige with Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale and Scarlett Johansson. In 2007, Piper starred in Because I Said So with Diane Keaton and First Snow with Guy Pearce. She recently finished filming Carriers and can next be seen in The Heaven Project opposite Paul Walker, and South of the Border alongside Jaime Lee Curtis, Drew Barrymore and Salma Hayek. Recent films include Cheaper by the Dozen 2, Imagine Me and You and 10th & Wolf with James Marsden and Dennis Hopper. Her feature film debut was White Boyz. Other films include The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle opposite Robert De Niro and Renee Russo, George and the Dragon, Lost and Delirious, The Cave and Edison Force with Kevin Spacey and Morgan Freeman. Piper lives in New York City.

ALISON PILL (Steph) recently starred in MTC’s Off-Broadway hits Blackbird for which she received Outer Critics Circle and Drama League nominations and Mauritius. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her Broadway debut in The Lieutenant of Inishmore and for a Lucille Lortel Award for On the Mountain. She won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble in the U.S. premiere of The Distance from Here at MCC, and starred in an Off-Broadway run of None of the Above. Recent film work includes Dan in Real Life, Dear Wendy, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Pieces of April and the upcoming Milk. Television includes “The Book of Daniel” (NBC) and “Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows.”

THOMAS SADOSKI (Greg) BROADWAY: Reckless (Manhattan Theater Club/Second Stage). OFF-BROADWAY: This Is Our Youth, Gemini, All This Intimacy (Second Stage); Stay, Where We’re Born (Rattlestick); The Joke (Studio Dante); The Mistakes Madeline Made (Naked Angels); Jump/Cut (The Women’s Project); The General From America (Theater For A New Audience); Thunderbird (Cherry Lane); REGIONAL: Santaland Diaries, The Waverly Gallery (Long Wharf); Moonlight & Magnolias (Alliance Theater); The General From America (Alley Theatre); Left (NY Stage & Film); Street Scene, The Skin Of Our Teeth, Hot L Baltimore, Rodney’s Wife, Dissonance (Williamstown Theater Festival). FILM/TV: Late In The Game, Loser, Happy Hour, Company K, Winter Solstice, “As The World Turns,” “Law & Order,” “L&O: Criminal Intent.” Thomas has worked extensively developing new works at New Dramatists, The Lark, The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center and the Sundance Institute. He is a graduate of Circle in the Square Theater School in New York City.

PABLO SCHREIBER (Kent) received a Tony Award nomination for his Broadway debut in Awake and Sing! Other theater credits include Dying City, Mr. Marmalade, Manuscript, Sin: A Cardinal Deposed, Blood Orange and Julius Caesar (New York Shakespeare Festival). He will next be seen in Vicky Cristina Barcelona directed by Woody Allen and Nights in Rodanthe directed by George Wolfe. Other film credits include The Lords of Dogtown, The Manchurian Candidate, Favorite Son, Into the Fire, The Mudge Boy and Invitation to a Suicide. TV credits include "Dirt," "The Wire," "John Grisham's A Painted House," "Law & Order," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Law & Order: SVU," "The Black Donnellys" and the upcoming "Fear Itself."