David Mamet (brief bio) - (born in 1947), Playwright and director. Born in Flossmore, Illinois, he studied at Goddard College, then settled in Chicago where he helped found the St. Nicholas Theatre Company, which produced many of his early plays. New Yorkers first saw his work Off Broadway with the popular double bill Sexual Perversity in Chicago and Duck Variations (1975). Among his subsequent plays are The Water Engine (1977), American Buffalo (1977), A Life in the Theater (1977), Glengarry Glen Ross (1984), Speed‐the‐Plow (1988), Oleanna (1992), Cryptogram (1995), The Old Neighborhood (1997), and Boston Marriage (2002). Mamet has directed his and others' plays, as well as written and directed films. 

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