"David Mamet's plays ""American Buffalo"" (1975) and ""Glengarry Glen Ross"" (1982) are set in what city?"
David Mamet David Mamet David Alan Mamet (; born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, film director, screenwriter and author. He won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his plays "Glengarry Glen Ross" (1984) and "Speed-the-Plow" (1988). He first gained critical acclaim for a trio of off-Broadway plays in 1976: "The Duck Variations," "Sexual Perversity in Chicago," and "American Buffalo." His plays "Race" and "The Penitent", respectively, opened on Broadway in 2009 and previewed off-Broadway in 2017. Feature films that Mamet both wrote and directed include "House of Games" (1987), "Homicide" (1991), "The Spanish Prisoner" (1997), "Heist" (2001), and
Glengarry Glen Ross (film) Glengarry Glen Ross (film) Glengarry Glen Ross is a 1992 American drama film adapted by David Mamet from his 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name, and directed by James Foley. The film depicts two days in the lives of four real estate salesmen and how they become desperate when the corporate office sends a trainer to "motivate" them by announcing that, in one week, all except the top two salesmen will be fired. It was filmed in New York City. Like the play, the film is notorious for its use of profanity, leading the cast to refer to