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David Alan Mamet (/ˈmæmɪt/; born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, film director, screenwriter and author. He won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his plays Glengarry Glen Ross (1984)
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17 more Mamet was born in 1947 in Chicago to Lenore June (née Silver), a teacher, and Bernard Morris Mamet, a labor attorney. His family was Jewish. His paternal grandparents were Polish Jews.[3][4] One of Mamet's earliest jobs was as a busboy at Chicago's London
House and The Second City. He also worked as an actor, editor for Oui magazine and as a cab-driver.[5] He was educated at the progressive Francis W. Parker School and at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. At the Chicago Public Library Foundation 20th
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anniversary fundraiser in 2006, though, Mamet announced "My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign".[6]

After a move to Chicago's North Side, Mamet encountered theater director Robert Sickinger, and began to work occasionally at Sickinger's Hull House Theatre. This represented the beginning of Mamet's lifelong involvement with the theater.[7]

Career [ edit ]

Theater [ edit ]

Mamet is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company; he first gained acclaim for a trio of off-Broadway plays in 1976, The Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and American Buffalo.[2] He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for Glengarry
Glen Ross, which received its first Broadway revival in the summer of 2005. His play Race, which opened on Broadway on December 6, 2009 and featured James Spader, David Alan Grier, Kerry Washington, and Richard Thomas in the cast, received mixed
reviews.[8] His play The Anarchist, starring Patti LuPone and Debra Winger, in her Broadway debut, opened on Broadway on November 13, 2012 in previews and was scheduled to close on December 16, 2012.[9] His 2017 play The Penitent previewed off-Broadway
on February 8, 2017.

In 2002, Mamet was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.[10] Mamet later received the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award for Grand Master of American Theater in 2010.

In 2017, Mamet released an online class for writers entitled David Mamet teaches dramatic writing.[11]

In 2019 Mamet returned to the London West End with a new play Bitter Wheat, at the Garrick Theatre, starring John Malkovich.[12]

Film [ edit ]

Mamet's first film work was as a screenwriter, later directing his own scripts.

Mamet's first produced screenplay was the 1981 production of The Postman Always Rings Twice, based on James M. Cain's novel. He received an Academy Award nomination one year later for the 1982 legal drama, The Verdict. He also wrote the screenplays for
The Untouchables (1987), Hoffa (1992), The Edge (1997), Wag the Dog (1997), Ronin (1998), and Hannibal (2001). He received a second Academy Award nomination for Wag the Dog.

In 1987, Mamet made his film directing debut with his screenplay House of Games, which won Best Film and Best Screenplay awards at the 1987 Venice Film Festival and the Film of the Year in 1989 from the London Film Critics' Circle Awards. The film starred his
then-wife, Lindsay Crouse, and many longtime stage associates and friends, including fellow Goddard College graduates.[13] Mamet was quoted as saying, "It was my first film as a director and I needed support, so I stacked the deck."[citation needed] After House of
Games, Mamet later wrote and directed two more films focusing on the world of con artists, The Spanish Prisoner (1997) and Heist (2001). Among those films, Heist enjoyed the biggest commercial success.[14][15][16]

Other films that Mamet both wrote and directed include: Things Change (1988), Homicide (1991) (nominated for the Palme d'Or at 1991 Cannes Film Festival and won a "Screenwriter of the Year" award for Mamet from the London Film Critics' Circle Awards),
Oleanna (1994), The Winslow Boy (1999), State and Main (2000), Spartan (2004), Redbelt (2008), and the 2013 bio-pic TV movie Phil Spector.

A feature-length film, a thriller titled Blackbird, was intended for release in 2015, but is still in development.[17]

When Mamet adapted his play for the 1992 film Glengarry Glen Ross, he wrote an additional part (including the monologue "Coffee's for closers") for Alec Baldwin.

Mamet continues to work with an informal repertory company for his films, including Crouse, William H. Macy, Joe Mantegna, and Rebecca Pidgeon, as well as the aforementioned school friends.

David did a rewrite of the script for Ronin under the pseudonym "Richard Weisz" and turned in an early version of a script for Malcolm X which was rejected by director Spike Lee.[18] In 2000, Mamet directed a film version of Catastrophe, a one-act play by Samuel
Beckett featuring Harold Pinter and John Gielgud (in his final screen performance). In 2008, he directed and wrote the mixed martial arts movie Redbelt, about a martial arts instructor tricked into fighting in a professional bout.

In On Directing Film, Mamet asserts that directors should focus on getting the point of a scene across, rather than simply following a protagonist, or adding visually beautiful or intriguing shots. Films should create order from disorder in search of the objective.

Books [ edit ]

In 1986 Mamet published “Writing in Restaurants” a collection of essays. In 1990 Mamet published The Hero Pony, a 55-page collection of poetry. He has also published a series of short plays, monologues and four novels, The Village (1994), The Old Religion
(1997), Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources (2000), and Chicago (2018). He has written several non-fiction texts, and children's stories, including "True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor"(1997). In 2004 he published a lauded version of the
classical Faust story, Faustus, however, when the play was staged in San Francisco during the spring of 2004, it was not well received by critics.[19] On May 1, 2010, Mamet released a graphic novel The Trials of Roderick Spode (The Human Ant).

On June 2, 2011, The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture, Mamet's book detailing his conversion from modern liberalism to "a reformed liberal" was released.[20]

Mamet published Three War Stories, a collection of novellas, on November 11, 2013.

On December 3, 2019, Mamet was set to publish a novel, The Diary of a Porn Star by Priscilla Wriston-Ranger: As Told to David Mamet With an Afterword by Mr. Mamet.[21]

Television and radio [ edit ]

Mamet wrote one episode of Hill Street Blues, "A Wasted Weekend", that aired in 1987. His then-wife, Lindsay Crouse, appeared in numerous episodes (including that one) as Officer McBride. Mamet is also the creator, producer and frequent writer of the television
series The Unit, where he wrote a well-circulated memo to the writing staff. He directed a third-season episode of The Shield with Shawn Ryan. In 2007, Mamet directed two television commercials for Ford Motor Company. The two 30-second ads featured the
Ford Edge and were filmed in Mamet's signature style of fast-paced dialogue and clear, simple imagery. Mamet's sister, Lynn, is a producer and writer for television shows, such as The Unit and Law & Order.

Mamet has contributed several dramas to BBC Radio through Jarvis & Ayres Productions, including an adaptation of Glengarry Glen Ross for BBC Radio 3 and new dramas for BBC Radio 4. The comedy Keep Your Pantheon (or On the Whole I'd Rather Be in
Mesopotamia) was aired in 2007. The Christopher Boy's Communion was another Jarvis & Ayres production, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on March 8, 2021.

Other media and political views [ edit ]

Since May 2005 he has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post, drawing satirical cartoons with themes including political strife in Israel.[22] In a 2008 essay at The Village Voice titled "Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal'"[23] he revealed that he
had gradually rejected so-called political correctness and progressivism and embraced conservatism. Mamet has spoken in interviews of changes in his views,[24] highlighting his agreement with free market theorists such as Friedrich Hayek[25] the historian Paul
Johnson, and economist Thomas Sowell, whom Mamet called "one of our greatest minds".

During promotion of a book, Mamet said British people had "a taint of anti-semitism," claiming they "want to give [Israel] away to some people whose claim is rather dubious."[26] In the same interview, Mamet went on to say that "there are famous dramatists and
novelists [in the UK] whose works are full of anti-Semitic filth." He refused to give examples because of British libel laws (the interview was conducted in New York City for the Financial Times).[26][27] He is known for his pro-Israel positions; in his book The Secret
Knowledge he claimed that "Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all."[28]

Mamet wrote an article for the November 2012 issue of The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles imploring fellow Jewish Americans to vote for Republican nominee Mitt Romney.[29][30]

In an essay for Newsweek, published on January 29, 2013, Mamet argued against gun control laws: "It was intended to guard us against this inevitable decay of government that the Constitution was written. Its purpose was and is not to enthrone a Government
superior to an imperfect and confused electorate, but to protect us from such a government."[31]

Mamet has described the NFL anthem protests as "absolutely fucking despicable".[3] In a 2020 interview, he described Donald Trump as a "great president" and supported his re-election.[32]

Mamet is a contributing editor to Flying magazine.

Critical reception to Mamet [ edit ]

"Mamet speak" [ edit ]

Mamet's style of writing dialogue, marked by a cynical, street-smart edge, precisely crafted for effect, is so distinctive that it has come to be called Mamet speak.[33] Mamet himself has criticized his (and other writers') tendency to write "pretty" at the expense of
sound, logical plots.[34] When asked how he developed his style for writing dialogue, Mamet said, "In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, based solely on our ability to speak the language
viciously. That's probably where my ability was honed."[35]

One instance of Mamet's dialogue style can be found in Glengarry Glen Ross, in which two down-on-their-luck real estate salesmen are considering stealing from their employer's office. George Aaronow and Dave Moss equivocate on the meaning of "talk" and
"speak", turning language and meaning to deceptive purposes:

Moss No. What do you mean? Have I talked to him about this [Pause]
Aaronow Yes. I mean are you actually talking about this, or are we just...
Moss No, we're just...
Aaronow We're just "talking" about it.
Moss We're just speaking about it. [Pause] As an idea.
Aaronow As an idea.
Moss Yes.
Aaronow We're not actually talking about it.
Moss No.
Aaronow Talking about it as a...
Moss No.
Aaronow As a robbery.
Moss As a "robbery?" No.

Mamet dedicated Glengarry Glen Ross to Harold Pinter, who was instrumental in its being first staged at the Royal National Theatre, (London) in 1983, and whom Mamet has acknowledged as an influence on its success, and on his other work.[36]

Mamet and gender issues [ edit ]

Mamet's plays have frequently sparked debate and controversy.[37] Following a 1992 staging of Oleanna, a play in which a college student accuses her professor of trying to rape her,[38] a critic reported that the play divided the audience by gender and recounted
that "couples emerged screaming at each other".[37]

In his 2014 book David Mamet and Male Friendship, Arthur Holmberg examined Mamet's portrayal of male friendships, especially focusing on the contradictions and ambiguities of male bonding as dramatized in Mamet's plays and films.[39]

Awards and nominations [ edit ]

Theatre [ edit ]

Year Award Category Work Result

Drama Desk Award Outstanding Play Nominated

1977 American Buffalo
New York Drama Critics' Circle Best American Play Won

1978 The Water Engine Nominated

1983 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Play Edmond Nominated

Nominated

Pulitzer Prize Drama Won

1984 Glengarry Glen Ross
Tony Award Best Play Nominated

New York Drama Critics' Circle Best American Play Won

Drama Desk Award Outstanding Play Nominated

1988 Speed-the-Plow
Tony Award Best Play Nominated

1993 Oleanna Nominated

Drama Desk Award Outstanding Play
Nominated
1995 The Cryptogram
Pulitzer Prize Drama Nominated

Film [ edit ]

Year Award Category Work Result

1982 Academy Award Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated

The Verdict
1983 Golden Globe Award Nominated

1987 Golden Globe Award Best Screenplay House of Games Nominated

Golden Globe Award Nominated

1997
Academy Award Best Adapted Screenplay Wag the Dog Nominated

1998 BAFTA Award Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated

Television [ edit ]

Year Award Category Work Result

Outstanding Miniseries or Movie Nominated

2013 Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special Phil Spector Nominated
Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special Nominated

Personal life [ edit ]

Mamet and actress Lindsay Crouse married in 1977 and divorced in 1990. The couple have two children, Willa and Zosia. Willa was a professional photographer and is now a singer/songwriter;[40] Zosia is an actress. Mamet has been married to actress and singer-
songwriter Rebecca Pidgeon since 1991. They live together in Santa Monica, California.[3] They have two children, Clara and Noah.

Mamet is a Reform Jew and strongly pro-Israel.[41]

Archive [ edit ]

The papers of David Mamet were sold to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin in 2007 and first opened for research in 2009.[42] The growing collection consists mainly of manuscripts and related production materials for most of his plays,
films, and other writings, but also includes his personal journals from 1966 to 2005. In 2015, the Ransom Center secured a second major addition to Mamet's papers, including more recent works. Additional materials relating to Mamet and his career can be found in
the Ransom Center's collections of Robert De Niro, Mel Gussow, Tom Stoppard, Sam Shepard, Paul Schrader, Don DeLillo, and John Russell Brown.

Works [ edit ]

Mamet is credited as writer of these works except where noted. Credits in addition to writer also noted.

Year Plays Films Books

1970 Lakeboat

1972 The Duck Variations

Lone Canoe

1974 Sexual Perversity in Chicago

Squirrels

1975 American Buffalo

1976 Reunion
The Water Engine

1977 A Life in the Theatre

The Woods

1978 The Revenge of the Space Pandas, or Binky Rudich and the Two-Speed Clock
Mr. Happiness

1979 Prairie du Chien

The Blue Hour

1980 Lakeboat (revision)

1981 The Postman Always Rings Twice

1982 Edmond The Verdict

1983 The Frog Prince

Glengarry Glen Ross

1985 The Shawl

Goldberg Street: Short Plays and Monologues

1986 The Poet & The Rent About Last Night...

1987 House of Games (director) Writing in Restaurants

The Untouchables
Black Widow (actor only)

1988 Speed-the-Plow Things Change (director)

1989 Bobby Gould in Hell We're No Angels Some Freaks

1991 Homicide (director) On Directing Film

1992 Oleanna Hoffa (producer) The Cabin: Reminiscence and Diversions

Glengarry Glen Ross
The Water Engine

1994 The Cryptogram Oleanna (director) The Village

Vanya on 42nd Street A Whore's Profession

1996 American Buffalo Make-Believe Town: Essays and Remembraces

1997 The Old Neighborhood Wag the Dog The Old Religion
The Spanish Prisoner (director)
The Edge

1998 Ronin Three Uses of the Knife

1999 Boston Marriage The Winslow Boy (director) True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
Lansky The Chinaman
Jafsie and John Henry: Essays

2000 Lakeboat Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources

State and Main (director)

2001 Hannibal
Heist (director)

2002 South of the Northeast Kingdom

2004 Faustus Spartan (director)

2005 Romance Edmond

The Voysey Inheritance (adaptation)

2006 The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred, and the Jews

2007 Keep Your Pantheon Bambi Vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie
November Business

2008 The Vikings and Darwin A Waitress in Yellowstone

Redbelt (director)

2009 Race
School

2010 Theatre
The Trials of Roderick Spode (The Human Ant)

2011 The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture

2012 The Anarchist

2013 Phil Spector (director) Three War Stories

2015 China Doll

2017 The Penitent

2018 Chicago

2019 Bitter Wheat The Diary of a Porn Star by Priscilla Wriston-Ranger: As Told to David Mamet
With an Afterword by Mr. Mamet

2020 The Christopher Boy's Communion[43]

References [ edit ]

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Glengarry Glen Ross Sells as a Modern American Classic | Dramatists" . Observer. June 20, 2017. Retrieved February 21, Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal' " . Village Voice. Retrieved ISBN 9780140089813.
Broadway Buzz" , Broadway.com, October 23, 2012. Retrieved 2018. April 13, 2017. 35. ^ Stephen Randall, ed. (2006). "David Mamet: April 1996,
May 24, 2013. 12. ^ Billington, Michael (June 19, 2019). "Bitter Wheat review – 24. ^ Benn, Aluf (January 13, 2012). "An interview with David interviewed by Geoffrey Norman and John Rezek". The Playboy
2. ^ a b "David Mamet Biography" . FilmMakers Magazine. Malkovich and Mamet's monstrous misfire" . The Guardian. Mamet on Israel and Zionism Israel News" . Haaretz. Interviews: The Directors. M Press. p. 276.
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the Harvey Weinstein scandal and his new novel, Chicago" . 14. ^ "Box Office Analysis: Nov. 11" . November 11, 2001. Napolitano, Fox Business Network, June 8, 2011. 37. ^ a b Alberge, Dalya (July 8, 2017). "David Mamet's $25,000
The Times. Retrieved March 11, 2019. Archived from the original on September 21, 2015. 26. ^ a b Gapper, John (June 11, 2011). "Lunch With David threat to theatres over post-show talks" . The Guardian.
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6. ^ Mamet, David (2006). "My Alma Mater". American Libraries: 'Blackbird' " . Deadline Hollywood. November 24, 2013. 29. ^ Mamet, David (November 1, 2012). "The final Obama/Romney doi:10.47678/cjhe.v44i1.182431 .
44–46. 18. ^ Simpson, Janet (March 16, 1992). "The Battle To Film showdown: A note to a stiff-necked people | Opinion" . Jewish 39. ^ Holmberg, Arthur (2014). David Mamet and Male Friendship,
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Theatre . Palgrave Macmillan US. pp. 26–27. ISBN 978-0-230- 2008. Retrieved March 20, 2007. 30. ^ Arellano, Jennifer (November 5, 2012). "David Mamet 40. ^ Mamet, Willa. "Willa Mamet" . Willa Mamet.
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Further reading [ edit ]

David Mamet (February 12, 2007). "David Mamet: Bambi vs. Godzilla" . The Leonard Lopate Show (Interview). Interviewed by Leonard Lopate. New York: WNYC. Retrieved December 23, 2008. Wikimedia Commons has
Radavich, David. "Man among Men: David Mamet's Homosocial Order." American Drama 1:1 (Fall 1991): 46–60. media related to David
Mamet.
Radavich, David. "Rabe, Mamet, Shepard, and Wilson: Mid-American Male Dramatists of the 1970s and '80s." The Midwest Quarterly XLVIII: 3 (Spring 2007): 342–58.
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