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Lynn Mamet

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Nationality
  
United States

Spouse
  
Gregory O'Neill (m. 2006)

Siblings
  
David Mamet

Name
  
Lynn Mamet

Nephews
  
Noah Mamet

Role
  
Theatre Director


Occupation
  
Theatre director, playwright, screenwriter, and television producer

Movies
  
On Hope, Because Mommy Works

Children
  
Andrew O'Neill, Maggie O'Neill, Emily O'Neill

Parents
  
Bernard Morris Mamet, Lenore June Mamet

Similar People
  
David Mamet, Dick Wolf, Arthur W Forney, Edwin Sherin, Rene Balcer

Notable works
  
Law & Order The Unit

Lynn Mamet (Lynn Mamet Weisberg) is an American theatre director, playwright, screenwriter, and television producer. 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.

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Career

Mamet has written screenplays, fiction, teleplays and short stories. She sold her first screenplay using her married name, Lynn Weisberg; the studio only learned her maiden name after purchasing it. In 1996 the Los Angeles Times described Mamet as "one of the busiest screenwriters in Hollywood."

Plays

  • The Divorce
  • The Job
  • Made for TV movies

  • All Lies End in Murder
  • Short films

  • On Hope (1994) written by Mamet, directed by JoBeth Williams Mamet won an 1994 Academy Award nomination for the play.
  • "Leslie's Folly (1994) written by Mamet, directed by Kathleen Turner
  • Background

    She is the sister of David Mamet.

    References

    Lynn Mamet Wikipedia