By Robert Simonson
25 Oct 2012

	Robert Prosky as Shelley Levine in the original Broadway production of Glengarry Glen Ross.
	Photo by Brigitte Lacombe

RUNNERS-UP: The actors and directors interviewed for this article largely agree with the Playbill.com selections for greatest Mamet men. The name that came up most often as a contender was Shelley Levine, the sad-sack salesman at the center of Glengarry Glen Ross. Jordan Lage, who knows the Mamet oeuvre as well as anybody, has a few other suggestions as well, among them: Bobby Gould in both Speed-the-Plow and The Old Neighborhood; Nick in The Woods; Bernie Litko in Sexual Perversity in Chicago; Robert in A Life in the Theatre; and Bernie in Reunion.

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