"As a writer, David is unique, once he knows conceptually what he wants to do, he gets it all down on paper in a matter of a few weeks. Most importantly, with THE EDGE David brings a special voice to the action-adventure genre, one that's substantially different from what we're used to seeing and hearing."
-- The Edge producer, Art Linson

DAVID MAMET is a leading American playwright and screenwriter noted for his spare language, strong male characters and creating low-key yet highly charged verbal confrontations.

Beginning in the late 1970s, Mamet enjoyed a number of stage successes including "American Buffalo," about a couple of small time cons, and "A Life in the Theatre," exploring the relationship between an older and younger actor.

His first produced screenplay was an adaptation of the James M. Cain novel "The Postman Always Rings Twice," directed by Bob Rafelson, and released in 1981. Mamet then wrote the scripts for The Verdict (1982), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, and The Untouchables (1987), a blockbuster update of the famed TV series. He also wrote the screenplay for the upcoming film Wag the Dog, directed by Barry Levinson.

Mamet wrote and made his directorial debut with House of Games (1987), a study of confidence trickery starring Joe Mantegna and Lindsay Crouse. He also wrote and directed the whimsical comedy Things Change (1989) and the police thriller Homicide (1991), both also starring Mantegna. His Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Glengarry Glen Ross," recreating the atmosphere of a gritty Chicago real estate office, was adapted into an acclaimed 1992 film directed by James Foley and starring Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon.

In 1994, Louis Malle directed Mamet's translation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in Vanya on 42nd Street (1994), which reunited the My Dinner With Andre team, Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn, as members of a company rehearsing the play-within-t he-movie.

That same year, Mamet wrote and directed the screen version of Oleanna, based on his stage play of the same title, a two-character confrontation involving charges of sexual harassment between a male professor and one of his female students.

In addition to the Pulizer Prize for "Glengarry Glen Ross," Mamet has received Obie Awards for "Sexual Perversity in Chicago," "American Buffalo" (which he also adapted into a screenplay for director Michael Corrente and stars Dustin Hoffman and Dennis F ranz), "Edmond" and "The Cryptogram." He also won a New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play for "Glengarry Glen Ross," as well as the Joseph Dintenfass Award. The London Film Critics Circle named him as Screenwriter of the Year for "H omicide."