David Mamet

David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, screenwriter, director and poet born to a Jewish family in Flossmoor, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. Educated at the Francis W. Parker School and Goddard College and a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company, Mamet first gained acclaim for a trio of off-Broadway plays in 1976, The Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and American Buffalo.

Plays

• Lakeboat (1970, revised 1980)
• The Duck Variations (1972)
• Sexual Perversity in Chicago (1974)
• Squirrels (1974)
• American Buffalo (1975)
• Reunion (1976)
• The Water Engine (1976)
• A Life in the Theatre (1977)
• Revenge of the Space Pandas, or Binky Rudich and the Two-Speed Clock (1978)
• The Woods (1979)
• Lakeboat (1980)
• Edmond (1982)
• The Frog Prince (1983)
• Glengarry Glen Ross (1984)
• The Shawl (1985)
• Speed-the-Plow (1988)
• Bobby Gould In Hell (1989)
• Oleanna (1992)
• The Cryptogram (1995)
• Boston Marriage (2001)
• Faustus (2004)
• Romance (2005)
• The Voysey Inheritance (2005)