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Interviewed by Frank Rich at the Lighthouse International Theater on Feb. 12th in NYC. [January 2007]

His play "Boston Marriage" was performed at the Donmar Warehouse and New Ambassador's Theatre in London and was nominated for a 2002 'Laurence Olivier' Theatre Award for Best New Comedy of 2001.

Often either declines credit or uses a pseudonym if he is called upon only as a script doctor, or some films he doesn't direct. The only such film that credited him by name was Hannibal (2001).

His stage work assayed in book entitled, "How Good is David Mamet, Anyway?" by critic John Heilpern, Dec. 1999.

Subsequent screenplays include'The Untouchables' (1987) 'We're No Angels' (1990), 'Glengary Glen Ross'.

He then wrote and directed 'House of Games (1987) 'Things Change' (1988) and 'Homicide' (1991) He's also published two collections of essays 'Writing in Restaurants' (1986) and Some Freaks' (1989).

The rejection of his screen adaption of 'Sexual Perversity in Chicago' was completely rewritten and released as 'About Last Night in 1986.

'The Shawl' (1985) and 'Speed the Plow' (1988).

Was twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Award for Best Play: in 1984 for "Glengarry Glen Ross," and in 1988 for "Speed-the-Plow.".

'Edmond' (1982).

He soon attracted wide acclaim as a screenwriter when his version of 'The Postman Always Rings Twice' (1981) was made by Bob Rafelson and his original screenplay for 'The Verdict (1982) was nominated for an Oscar.

His other plays include 'A Life in the Theatre' (1977).

The first of his plays to secure international recognition was 'Sexual Perversity in Chicago' (1974) and 'American Buffalo' (1975). The latter was eventually performed by Al Pacino on Broadway and London's West End earning him an 'Award Obie' when it transferred from Chicago to New York. His play 'Glen Gary Glen Ross won the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play.

Born in 1947 in Chicago, he was educated at Goddard College, in Vermont, and studied drama at New York's Nieghbourhood Playhouse, before returning to Chicago and establishing the St Nicholas Theatre Company in 1972. He remained their resident writer for four years.