February 09, 2010

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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.

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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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