DAVID MAMET BIOGRAPHY

David Alan Mamet was born November 30, 1947 (currently 66) in Chicago, IL to parents, Lenore June , a teacher, and Bernard Mamet, an attorney. 
Grew up Jewish

• "As a Jew, I will relate that there is nothing a non-Jew can say to a Jew on the subject of Jewishness that is not patronizing, upsetting or simply wrong. I assume that the same holds true among African-Americans.”

-Mother and Father divorced when he was 11 
-Moved to the suburbs with his mother and her new husband (who was a former colleague of his fathers)
-Turmoiled Childhood: suffered emotional abuse and neglect from parents "There was a lot of violence, but the greatest violence was emotional. It was emotional terrorism" -Lynn Margaret (sister)

*He is a screenwriter and playwright and director
*Mamet studied at Vermont's Goddard College and the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre in New York
*Mamet is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company.

*Mamet was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2002

*He has won a Pulitzer Prize and has receive numerous Tony nominations. 

*Received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for Grand Master of American Theater in 2010. 
*Founded the St. Nicholas Theatre Co. in Chicago

Politics:

• Since May 2005 he has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post, drawing satirical cartoons with themes including political strife in Israel.
• Wrote an article in 2008, "Why I Am No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal" switching his views from liberalism to conservatism.
• Very public embrace of 'right-wing politics'(in favor of centralizing political power in the hands of the leaders of the government)

He insists government cannot change human nature: "Those of us in show-business spend our lives trying to understand, subvert and predict the actions of the audience, It cannot be done." 

"Thomas Jefferson was an adulterer, so was every president, most likely, thats why men get into politics; it gives them power. "

• Rather than government, he looks to "community" for the survival of civilization: "Our task in life is not to guess which lever to pull, but to learn to determine, in the wild, as it were, how to support ourselves."