Philip Seymour Hoffman

He appeared opposite Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible 3.” Prior to that, Hoffman starred in “Capote,” which he executive produced through his company, Cooper’s Town Productions. In addition to winning the Academy Award® for Best Actor, Hoffman earned a Golden Globe and SAG Award for his performance.

Previous film credits include HBO’s “Empire Falls,” “Cold Mountain,” “Along Came Polly,” “The Party’s Over,” “Owning Mahowny,” “Red Dragon,” “Punch-Drunk Love,” “25th Hour,” “Love Liza,” (which was written by his brother, Gordy Hoffman, who won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance, where the film premiered), “Almost Famous,” “State and Main,” “Flawless,” “Magnolia,” “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” “Boogie Nights,” “Happiness,” “Patch Adams,” “The Big Lebowski,” “Twister,” “Scent of a Woman,” and “Nobody’s Fool.”

Hoffman is a member and Co-Artistic Director of LAByrinth Theater Company. His stage credits include: “Jack Goes Boating” (The Public Theatre), “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” (Broadway), “The Seagull” (The New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre), “True West” (Broadway) with John C. Reilly, “Defying Gravity” (American Place Theater), “The Merchant of Venice” (directed by Peter Sellars), “Shopping and Fucking” (New York Theater Workshop), and “The Author’s Voice.”

His theatrical directorial credits include “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot,” “In Arabia We’d All Be Kings,” and “Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train,” all written by Stephen Adly Guirgis for LAB. His production of “‘A’ Train” was produced to great acclaim Off-Broadway, at the Edinburgh Festival, at London’s Donmar Warehouse, and then at the Arts Theatre in London’s West End. In addition, he directed LAB’s Off-Broadway commercial production of Guirgis’ “Our Lady of 121st Street” at the Union Square Theater and Rebecca Gilman’s “The Glory of Living” at MCC Theater. He next travels to Australia to direct the Andrew Upton play “Riflemind” at the famed Sydney Opera House.

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