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Age 39
Mustworthiness He gut-checked us twice this year: (1) by playing a tormented pedophiliac trucker in the indie film Palindromes and (2) by premiering his street-smart morality play The Last Days of Judas Iscariot — his Off Broadway collaboration with actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's LAByrinth Theater Company.
Not for the Saint of Heart Like much of Guirgis' work, Judas deals with redemption and challenges stuffy theology with foulmouthed saints and sinners. (Satan's sample dialogue: ''I'm just a fallen angel trying to keep my d--- hard in a monotheistic society. . .'') ''The Christian movement in this country is so off-putting,'' Guirgis says. ''But we're living in an age when some kind of a spiritual connection is of the utmost necessity.''
Next Penning a pilot for HBO, starring Mos Def.
