Lynn Mamet

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Lynn Mamet
Occupation Theatre director, playwright, screenwriter, and television producer
NationalityAmerican
Notable works Law & Order
The Unit

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

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Biography

Mamet has written screenplays, fiction, teleplays and short stories. [1] [2] [3] She sold her first screenplay using her married name, Lynn Weisberg; the studio only learned her maiden name after purchasing it. [4] In 1996, the Los Angeles Times described Mamet as "one of the busiest screenwriters in Hollywood." [5]

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

Short films

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