Pittsburgh native Joe Manganiello marks his feature film directorial debut with the documentary La Bare, hitting theaters on June 27th. The film is an insider's look at the history, the lives and the culture of the most popular male strip club in the world, La Bare Dallas. Manganiello, who holds a BFA in Acting from The Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, is best known to audiences for his roles as 'Big Dick Richie' in Steven Soderbergh's male stripper phenomena Magic Mike and as werewolf "Alcide Herveaux," on HBO's True Blood for which he has won both critical and popular praise. Now, with the imminent release of La Bare, Joe shares how his film's premise was inspired: "Throughout all of Magic Mike’s success, the one prevailing compliment/complaint I received from just about everyone who saw the film was that they wanted more of the guys. People were unanimously interested in knowing more about our characters, who they were, where they lived, how they grew up, who they dated, etc. So, when my brother and I started our production company 3:59 in the late fall of last year, we decided that as our first order of business, we'd take a small crew to Dallas to see if we could find a story capable of satisfying everyone's curiosity. What we found was a goldmine."

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