David Mamet (Writer) – Overview, Biography

Name:David Mamet
Occupation: Writer
Gender:Male
Birth Day: November 30,
1947
Age: 75
Birth Place: Chicago, Illinois, United States,
United States
Zodiac Sign:Sagittarius

David Mamet

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David Mamet was born on November 30, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois, United States, United States (75 years old). David Mamet is a Writer, zodiac sign: Sagittarius. Nationality: United States. Approx. Net Worth: $20 Million.

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Biography

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1947

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. 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. He was educated at the progressive Francis W. Parker School and at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. At the Chicago Public Library Foundation 20th 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”.

1976

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. 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. 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. His 2017 play The Penitent previewed off-Broadway on February 8, 2017.

1977

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; Zosia is an actress. Mamet has been married to actress and singer-songwriter Rebecca Pidgeon since 1991. They live together in Santa Monica, California. They have two children, Clara and Noah.

1983

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.

1987

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. Mamet was quoted as saying, “It was my first film as a director and I needed support, so I stacked the deck.” 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.

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.

1990

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. On May 1, 2010, Mamet released a graphic novel The Trials of Roderick Spode (The Human Ant).

1992

Mamet’s plays have frequently sparked debate and controversy. During a staging of Oleanna in 1992, in which a college student falsely accuses her professor of trying to rape her, a critic reported that the play divided the audience by gender and recounted “couples emerged screaming at each other”.

2000

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. 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.

2002

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

2005

Since May 2005 he has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post, drawing satirical cartoons with themes including political strife in Israel. In a 2008 essay at The Village Voice titled “Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal'” 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, highlighting his agreement with free market theorists such as Friedrich Hayek the historian Paul Johnson, and economist Thomas Sowell, whom Mamet called “one of our greatest minds”.

2007

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 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. 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 that include 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.

2011

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.

2013

Mamet published Three War Stories, a collection of novellas, on November 11, 2013. In an interview with Newsmax TV, Mamet said he wanted to write about war, despite never having served. Moreover, the book allowed Mamet to free characters that had occupied his mind for years. On the subject of characters as a reason for writing, Mamet told the host, “You want to get these guys out of your head. You just want them to stop talking to you.”

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.”

2014

Arthur Holmberg in his 2014 book David Mamet and Male Friendship, examines Mamet’s portrayal of male friendships, especially focusing on the contradictions and ambiguities of male bonding as dramatized in Mamet’s plays and films.

2015

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

2017

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

2019

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

2020

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

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