David Mamet

30 November 1947

92 works on record

Biography

David Alan Mamet is an American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. His works are known for their clever, terse, sometimes vulgar dialogue and arcane stylized phrasing, as well as for their exploration of masculinity. Mamet received Tony Award nominations for Glengarry Glen Ros (1984) and Speed-the-Plow (1988), as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross. As a screenwriter, he received Oscar nominations for The Verdict (1982) and Wag the Dog (1997). ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mamet

Works

Three War Stories

2013

The shawl

Passover

Homicide

Short plays and monologues

No one will be immune

Glengarry Glen Ross

Reunion ; Dark pony ; The sanctity of marriage

On directing film

The shawl ; and, Prairie du Chien

Glengarry Glen Ross (Modern Plays)

Tested on Orphans

Los Tres Usos Del Cuchillo (Artes Escenicas)

South of the Northeast Kingdom

Squirrels, a play

The poet and the rent

The trials of Roderick Spode ("The human ant")

A whore's profession

The owl, a story for children

Plays--one

Henrietta

Five television plays

We're no angels

Five Television Plays (David Mamet): A Waitress in Yellowstone; Bradford; The Museum of Science and Industry Story; A Wasted Weekend; We Will Take You There (Mamet, David)