His plays Race and The Penitent, respectively, opened on Broadway in 2009 and previewed off-Broadway in 2017.įeature films that Mamet both wrote and directed include House of Games (1987), Homicide (1991), The Spanish Prisoner (1997), and his biggest commercial success, Heist (2001). He first gained critical acclaim for a trio of off-Broadway 1970s plays: The Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and American Buffalo. He won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his plays Glengarry Glen Ross (1984) and Speed-the-Plow (1988). David Alan Mamet ( / ˈ m æ m ɪ t/ born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, filmmaker, and author.
