PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN (Director/Executive Producer: Jack Goes Boating) was last seen in Richard Curtis’ latest project Pirate Radio. , he starred in Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, NY and John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt. Hoffman also starred in the independent film The Savages, Mike Nichols’ Charlie Wilson’s War and Sidney Lumet’s Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead. Previously, 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.

Other film credits include Mission Impossible: III, Along Came Polly, Cold Mountain, The Party’s Over, Owning Mahowny, 25th Hour, Red Dragon, Punch-Drunk Love, Love Liza, Almost Famous, State and Main, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Magnolia, Flawless, Patch Adams, Happiness, The Big Lebowski, Boogie Nights, Twister, Nobody’s Fool, Scent of a Woman and HBO’s Empire Falls.

As an actor, Hoffman's theater credits include Jack Goes Boating (The Public Theater), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Broadway), The Seagull (The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival), True West (Broadway), Defying Gravity (American Place Theatre), The Merchant of Venice (directed by Peter Sellars), Shopping and F*cking (New York Theatre Workshop) and The Author’s Voice (Drama Department).

His directing credits include the world premieres of The Little Flower of East Orange, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Our Lady of 121st Street, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train and In Arabia, We’d All Be Kings, all written by Stephen Adly Guirgis and produced by LAByrinth. Additionally, Hoffman directed Rebecca Gilman’s The Glory of Living at MCC Theater. He traveled to Australia to direct Andrew Upton’s Riflemind at the famed Sydney Theater Company and also mounted the play later in London."

Jack Goes Boating marks the second production from Cooper’s Town and Hoffman’s feature film directorial debut.