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PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN
is the co-artistic director of the LAByrinth
Theater Company in New York. His theatre credits include The Seagull (directed by Mike Nichols
for the New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theater), True West (directed by Matthew
Warchus, Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations, Outer Critics Circle Award), Defying Gravity
(American Place Theatre), The Merchant of Venice (directed by Peter Sellars), Shopping and
Fucking (New York Theatre Workshop) and The Author's Voice (Drama Dept., Drama Desk
nominations). Film credits include Cold Mountain, Owning Mahowny, Love Liza, 25th Hour,
Punch-Drunk Love and Red Dragon as well as Almost Famous, State and Main, Flawless,
Magnolia, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Boogie Nights, Happiness, Patch Adams, The Big Lebowski,
Twister, Scent of a Woman, Nobody's Fool and Hard Eight. As a director, his most recent
production is Our Lady of 121st Street written by Stephen Adly Guirgis for LAByrinth. The play is
now running at the Union Square Theatre. In addition, he directed In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings
and Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, also by Guirgis, with LAByrinth. His production of 'A' Train has
been produced to great acclaim Off-Broadway, at the Edinburgh Festival (Fringe First Award) and
most recently at London's Donmar Warehouse and the Arts Theatre in London's West End. At the
end of 2001, he directed Rebecca Gilman's The Glory of Living at Manhattan Class Company. Here
we go Cooper.
Previously seen in
Show
Theatre
Role
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
James Tyrone, Jr.
Our Lady of 121St Street
Union Square Theatre
Director
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