Confirmed: Matthew Fox & Olivia Williams to Star in Premiere of new LaBute Play
By: Robert Diamond Nov. 22, 2010
Variety reports that LOST star Matthew Fox and THE GHOST WRITER's Olivia Williams will star in the world premiere production of Neil LaBute's IN A FOREST, DARK AND DEEP. LaBute will direct the production as well which is set to begin previews at the West End Vaudeville theater on March 3, 2010 before opening on March 14, 2010. The show will play 12 weeks, and tickets for the first week will be on sale via lastminute.com.
Nominated for an Emmy this year, in 2005 Fox shared the Screen Actors Guild Ensemble Award and was nominated for Golden Globe and Television Critics Association Awards for achievement in dramatic acting for Lost.
Fox appeared in the feature film Speed Racer, directed by Andy & Larry Wachowski, as Speed's one-time rival, the mysterious Racer X, and he appeared in the production of Vantage Point for director Pete Travis. The thriller depicts the attempted assassination of the president from eight different points of view, and Fox and his co-star, Dennis Quaid, play the secret service agents. Fox can also be seen in We are Marshall, directed by McG.
Fox starred in the successful series Party of Five and has numerous television credits, including his starring role in the critically acclaimed series Haunted and the telefilm Behind the Mask, in which he starred opposite Donald Sutherland.
Matthew Fox graduated from the Atlantic Theater Company's acting school.
Neil LaBute (Playwright/Director) 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 - The Wicker Man, Lakeview Terrace and Death at a Funeral. Plays include bash: reasons to be pretty, latter-day plays, The Shape of Things, The Distance From Here, The Mercy Seat, Autobahn, This Is How It Goes, Some Girl(s), Wrecks, In a Dark Dark House, Helter Skelter, The Furies and The War on Terror. 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.
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