Lynn Mamet
{{short description|American screenwriter}}
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Lynn Mamet (Lynn Mamet Weisberg) is an American theatre director, playwright, screenwriter, and television producer.
Biography
Mamet has written screenplays, fiction, teleplays and short stories.{{cite news|last1=Weisberg|first1=Lynn Mamet|title=The Downside to Having a Famous Hollywood Relative|work=Los Angeles Times|date=8 February 1993|id={{ProQuest|1851782227}}}}{{cite news|last1=Perkins|first1=Ken Parish|title=Straight shooter Brash writer Lynn Mamet doesn't use a silencer when talking about her life|publisher=Fort Worth Star-Telegram|date=19 January 1997}}{{cite news|title=Weisberg will write a TV pilot|publisher=The American Israelite|date=25 October 1990|id={{ProQuest|997623636}}}} She sold her first screenplay using her married name, Lynn Weisberg; the studio only learned her maiden name after purchasing it.{{cite news|last1=Kogan|first1=Rick|title=It's Mamet, as in sister Lynn|publisher=Chicago Tribune|date=14 March 1993|id={{ProQuest|283463242}}}} In 1996, the Los Angeles Times described Mamet as "one of the busiest screenwriters in Hollywood."
Her latest and most notable work is as a producer and writer for Law & Order and The Unit. In addition to her work on television, she has also written and directed her own plays, including The Walking Wounded, The Fathers, The Job, The Divorce, and The Lost Years at Playwright's Kitchen Ensemble and the Sanford Meisner Theatres.
She is the sister of David Mamet.
Selected works
=Plays=
=Made for TV movies=
- All Lies End in Murder{{cite news|last1=Garmel|first1=Marion|title='All Lies End in Murder' is a fine tale of police corruption and responsibility (review)|publisher=Indianapolis Star|date=18 January 1997|id={{ProQuest|240156707}}}}{{cite news|last1=Bobbin|first1=Jay|title=Wife's Happiness Threatened in "Lies" (film review)|publisher=Palm Beach Post|date=19 January 1997|id={{ProQuest|321902830}}}}
=Short films=
- On Hope (1994) written by Mamet, directed by JoBeth Williams{{cite news|last1=Kelleher|first1=Terry|title=Diversity Is the Name of the Game|publisher=Newsday|date=2 October 1994|id={{ProQuest|278801069}}}}{{cite news|last1=Archerd|first1=Army|title='Hope' gets Williams more respect, offers|url=https://variety.com/1995/voices/columns/hope-gets-williams-more-respect-offers-1117862648/|accessdate=13 February 2017|publisher=Variety|date=22 February 1995}} Mamet won a 1994 Academy Award nomination for the play.{{cite news|last1=Miller|first1=Daryl|title=In This Kitchen, They Hang on Every Word|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-aug-10-ca-20957-story.html|access-date=13 February 2017|work=Los Angeles Times|date=10 August 1997}}
- "Leslie's Folly (1994) written by Mamet, directed by Kathleen Turner{{cite news|last1=Everett|first1=Todd|title=Review: 'Directed by Leslie's Folly'|url=https://variety.com/1994/tv/reviews/directed-by-leslie-s-folly-1200439068/|accessdate=10 February 2017|publisher=Variety|date=10 October 1994}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0541080}}
{{David Mamet}}
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Category:American television producers
Category:American women television producers
Category:American television writers
Category:20th-century American screenwriters
Category:American women screenwriters
Category:American women television writers
Category:American women dramatists and playwrights
Category:21st-century American women
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
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